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- Corporate holiday parties: Is there reason to celebrate?
- In the midst of job cuts, slower sales and declining stock prices, it's hard for the corporate world to put on a smile and celebrate with a holiday party this season. Morale alone may be reason to keep that holiday party scheduled - but be careful to be frugal but...
- Tags: Holiday Party, Recruitment & Selection, Sales Strategy, XML, Food & Beverage, Financial Accounting, Investment, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sales, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Manufacturing, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Detroit automakers have little to be thankful for
- But they do have a little time to pull their drumsticks out of the oven. Today the Democrats in Congress gave the U.S. auto industry until December 2nd to come up with a proposal acceptable to Congress and the current White House occupant. You gotta ask...
- Tags: Detroit, U.S. Congress, Merry Chiristmas, Branding, Manufacturing, Government, Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Microsoft hires away key search VP from Yahoo
- The rumors were true: Microsoft has hired away from Yahoo Sean Suchter, Vice President of Yahoo's Search Technology. Microsoft confirmed Suchter will start with the Redmondians on December 22. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Mary Jo Foley, Portals, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- My pick for the Yahoo CEO job . . .
- If I were Yahoo I would try to recruit Sean Maloney, Intel's executive vice president and Chief of Sales and Marketing. Mr Maloney has had a lot of experience turning around troubled Intel business groups and he is easily one of the most competent executives in the...
- Tags: Job, Yahoo! Inc., Mr., Intel Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Yang out: Justice scrutiny paved the way
- Some things are clear. If Jerry Yang had merely been doing a lousy job at running Yahoo, there would have been no "mutual" decision that he should step down as CEO. (NYT: "Jerry and the board have had an ongoing dialogue about succession timing, and we...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Law, Portals, Investment, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Internet, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Expensive repairs for Large Hadron Collider
- So this Large Hadron Collider thing is a pretty sensitive piece of equipment. An electrical failure shut the great atom smasher down in September after only a few days on the job. It was supposed to be brought back online this month, but now, the BBC reports, the...
- Tags: CERN, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Tech czar job: CTO or CIO?
- Is the national "chief technology officer" job promised by Obama going to be more of CTO or CIO job? The consensus seems to be leading towards the latter. The Washington Post quotes Gary Arlen of Arlen Communications: It seems to be much...
- Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Can flagging industries be replaced by BPO services?
- President-Elect Obama is facing a massive task to redeploy workers in consolidating and declining industries, such as automotive manufacturing. Could creating BPO jobs we an answer? Could the USA become a competitive BPO location? by Phil Fersht
- Tags: BPO, Industry, President-Elect Obama, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Fersht, Job, Chrysler LLC, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Tech workforce pinched by economy, feeling like 2003
- That economic doom-and-gloom has finally hit the tech sector and it looks like job cuts in the electronics, telecom and computer industries could be flirting with numbers they haven't seen in years. According to Challenger, Gray and Christmas, a global outplacement firm that tracks daily job cut...
- Tags: Job, Technology Sector, Industry, Job Cut, Workforce, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- The mass exodus of the technology industry
- Everywhere I look at the moment there are job cuts here, mass lay-off's there, unemployment rising and a crumbling global economy. Whilst students are working their arses off trying to cram for pre-Christmas exams, it opens up a world full of worry for students who are...
- Tags: Job, Technology Company, Industry, U.K., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Apple seeks iPhone expertise in China
- An Apple job posted briefly on Thursday for an iPhone Quality Assurance Engineer in Beijing hints that company is getting closer to launching the device in China. According to AppleInsider the opening sought candidates "to focus on international releases of our iPhone and iPod touch products for Beijing." The job...
- Tags: China, Apple iPhone, Beijing, Apple Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- 'The devil you know' keeps worried workers in place
- So, let's say that you're one of the lucky ones who slip out from under the economic downturn's merciless grip, and you get to keep your job. Aside from keeping your head down and by all means, not audibly cheering your good fortune, what do you do? by Deb Perelman
- Tags: Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Deb Perelman, Job
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Dismissing the open source bear at the door
- The best advice I can offer, especially if you're short of money, is to keep working. Find important jobs which need doing. Find code that can help do them. So long as you have a laptop with WiFi on it, you are still in the game. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Bear, Dana Blankenhorn, Wireless LANs, Games, Recruitment & Selection, Wi-Fi, Notebooks, Wireless, Open Source, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Open-source Company, Movie, Internet
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Schmidt says no to CTO job
- Photo by WorldWidePhotography Fresh from his stint on Barack Obama's economic transition team, Google CEO Eric Schmidt made an appearance on Jim Cramer's "Mad Money", where he put to rest speculation -- like that from TechRepublic's Jason Hiner -- that he would be the top pick for...
- Tags: Job, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, CTO, Schmidt, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- ExpertCEO for the lonely CEO . . .
- It can get very lonely at the top and that's why ExpertCEO was created, to let CEOs know that they aren't alone -- it just feels that way sometimes. The site recently emerged from private beta with 600 members and is growing at a fast clip...
- Tags: Mr., CEO, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Communications, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Social Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Sales, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Nortel's rerun: Another purge, another restructuring
- Nortel on Monday purged its executive ranks--Chief Marketing Officer Lauren Flaherty, Chief Technology Officer John Roese, Global Services President Dietmar Wendt and Executive Vice President Global Sales Bill Nelson are all leaving Jan. 1--and announced yet another restructuring amid a weak earnings. Continuity and Nortel are two...
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Real Estate, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Business Operations, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- 69% of employed adults who work from home earn $75,000 or more
- 69% of employed adults earning $75,000 per year or more say they work from home at least some of the time, one in four do so every day or almost every day. By comparison, just 30% of those in jobs earning less than $30,000 per year work from home, and...
- Tags: Adult, Home, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Despite weak economy, strong demand for community managers
- Looking for a new gig? Apparently the market is hot for community managers. Even though the job market seems to be pretty soft these days, the demand for community managers doesn't seem to be waning. According to ReadWriteWeb: It's a hot job. We only expect it...
- Tags: Job, Community Manager, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- DHL ends U.S. operations, cuts 9,500 jobs
- In what may have a catastrophic effect on gadget delivery nationwide, global delivery company DHL has announced that it will be cutting 9,500 jobs and suspending domestic mailing operations. UPS, FedEx, USPS: We hope you've got enough trucks and airplanes to go around! ...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., U.S., Job, Federal Express, DHL, DHL U.S., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Papermaster temporarily blocked from Apple job
- A federal judge granted a temporary injunction blocking former IBM exec Mark Papermaster from working for Apple. IBM asserts Papermaster possesses trade secrets and a non-compete agreement prevents him from working in the industry for a year. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Job, Apple Inc., IBM Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Richard Koman, Trade Secret, Agreement
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
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