A HUGE thank you for all the support around my comic strip – “The Recruiting Life.” I also want to give an even bigger thank you to everyone who asked to appear in my comicstrip! That being said, I am VERY pleased to announce that Geektech International is now hiring! Now you have an even better chance of being a [...]

It must be Jelly cause Jam don’t shake like that! Jim Stroud hangs out at Jelly Atlanta, a traveling office party for mobile office workers. The Recruiters Lounge – Jelly from Jim Stroud on Vimeo.   ABOUT OUR SPONSOR Resume Finder – Passive Search made easy.   ADDITIONAL CREDITS The theme music "Energy Drink" by Andrew Pfaff  is courtesy of [...]

The office Christmas party is dying out because of fears that workers could sue over other employees’ drunken antics and a prevailing “Scrooge” mentality. A third of companies will not hold a staff party this year, according to a survey. This is twice as many as in 2002. Of those that do hold a seasonal get-together, four in 10 do [...]

Stumbled across a cool tool today called “Verify Email Address.” Okay, so the name of the product isn’t sexy; it does not matter to me just so long that it works. This is how to use it: step-by-step. 1. Go to Verify-Email.org and type in an email address. 2. Verify-Email goes to the mail server, checks to see if the [...]

Hat tip to Nanopolitan for this one… Did you know that: * The number of doctoral degrees awarded by American universities climbed by 5.1 percent in 2006, to a record high of 45,596 * 1,865 of the 2,211 more doctorates awarded in 2006 than 2005 — came in science and engineering fields. * 1,521 more doctorates were granted in 2006 [...]

Hat tip to Howard Adamsky for sharing with me a cool tool – ZipSkinny. Zipskinny was created as a Web development “hobby” project using Census 2000 data obtained from the Census website. By their own ommission, the information is not 100% accurate and users are encouraged to bounce the data found on this site with those found on the Census [...]

This has got to be the best wedding first dance – EVER! It resonates with me (and I suspect with you as well) that this couple is not your average honeymoon couple, but that they have something wonderful, exciting and enviable. Why? Simply because they are being different and are having a good time doing it. So, you cheer them [...]

BEAUTY is in the eye of the employer when it comes to finding staff for Scotland’s fashion sector. An ugly row has erupted over the increasingly common practice among clothes retailers, style bars and other fashion-conscious employers of demanding that job candidates include a photo with their CV. One major fashion chain has already abandoned the controversial recruitment policy after [...]

Ouch! (I wonder if this will affect the price of Unleaded next week?) Check it out… A former Chevron Corp. employee was awarded $5.5 million by a San Francisco federal court jury that found Chevron liable for retaliation and wrongful termination. Kiran Pande, who holds a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from Stanford University, was fired by Chevron in late 2003 [...]

The success of the James Bond movies has given the British Secret Intelligence Service a recruitment headache — too many cranks want to join MI6. “I think it gives people a false impression of what working for the organization is actually like,” the head of MI6 recruitment — named only as “Mark” — told BBC Radio One’s Newsbeat program on [...]

It was reported that some 7,000 employees of Huawei Technologies Co were required to resign from and then re-apply for their jobs. This has stirred some controversy in recent weeks. That the move came just two months before the amended Labor Law takes effect in January raises suspicion that the goal was to evade the extra economic burden the company [...]

More companies need to introduce workplace napping and caffeine therapy to help sleepy workers overcome their chronic tiredness, a sleep expert warns. A medical meeting in Melbourne will be told on Saturday that an increasing number of employees are working on less sleep. Despite this, Australia has been slow to embrace strategies that directly deal with fatigue caused by shiftwork [...]

The message is popping up everywhere. Signs have appeared inside Metro trains; banners are plastered on city buildings. The warning has even invaded the airwaves. The targets of the campaign are the thousands of federal workers who make annual charitable donations through their workplaces. Volunteers are trying to prevent confusion from a small but critical change in the way preferred [...]

I commented on this the last time it happenned. So please refer to my earlier rant. For now, check out this rant from another blogger… This again already? Just a few months ago, we heard about Monster.com being the target of a trojan and the subsequent loss of user data that took place. Monster.com said shortly thereafter that they would [...]

CBS Radio suspended, then fired, host Don Imus in April 2007, eight days after he made racial and sexual slurs toward the Rutgers University women’s basketball team on his programme. In the public furor and public relations mess that ensued, there was no second chance or do-over for Imus at CBS, despite his public apologies. Instead, he went elsewhere. About [...]