Article Title: Gift ideas for job seekers (and other career-minded folks)Author Byline: Grace Kutney Author Website: http://sweetcareers.blogspot.com
Do you have any job seekers, prospective interns or new professionals on your holiday shopping list? Here are some fun gift ideas for those career-minded folks for whom you may be shopping. I’ve tried to [...]
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Article Title: 30/60/90 day plans for interviews – get hired!
Author Byline: Peggy McKee – Medical Sales Recruiter
Author Website: http://www.phcconsulting.com/
Here I outline how to use a 30/60/90 day plan in an interview to secure an offer. What is a 30 day/60 day/90 day plan? And why is it important? and how do I create [...]
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Article Title: A Recruiter’s Day Is Never Done
Author Byline: Tahjia Chapman is a writer for CollegeRecruiter.com at http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com, the leading job board for college students searching for internships and recent graduates hunting for entry level jobs and other career opportunities.
Author Website: http://www.collegerecruiter.com
The 65-hour work week keeps professionals away from home almost twenty percent [...]
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Styx and their song “Too Much Time On my Hands.”
Some people just don’t have enough real work to do. Take for example The National Inhalant Prevention Council who have been angered by and are protesting the Wendy’s commercial where office workers ‘fill’ themselves with helium.
Supposedly the action of filling themselves with helium will give people [...]
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For the longest time, I’ve been saying that my friend (and now world famous author), Jason Alba is not related to super attractive movie star, Jessica Alba. But after seeing commercials for her new movie (Good Luck Chuck) I’m now convinced that I may have been wrong all this time.
Look at the evidence, Jessica plays [...]
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The Big Mac turns 40 this year. The Big Mac was first introduced in 1967 by Jim Delligatti, a McDonald’s franchise owner in Uniontown, Pa. and within one year it was adopted nationwide.
There are more than 550 million big Macs sold each year (which is about 17 per second), making it one of the most [...]
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Hey FTC surprise, fast food restaurants try to sell food to kids. In a a move that seems completely motivated by the meddlesome, nanny-wannabe attitude of our government officials, the FTC decides that they should investigate the marketing practices of 5 restaurant company giants. The two largest restaurant companies, the number 2 and 3 hamburger [...]
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I was just reading today about a class action lawsuit that was approved to move forward in the courts. It seems that servers of Applebee’s are an approved class and the action is against Applebee’s International Inc. The suit alleges that servers are required to spend more than 20% of their time doing un-tipped work [...]
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I hope so. I just placed an item up for bid on EBay. A fantastic golf outing for 6 at Fripp Island Resort. If you love golf this could be a great trip for you and some of your golfing buddies.
Sadly, I can’t use the trip myself because of Roscoe [...]
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My friend Jason Alba [don't worry there will be the usual eye candy at the end of my posting] is running a special on the incredibly powerful career management toolset, JibberJobber. The details are listed below. If you know what’s good for you, you’ll get your butts over there and sign up. There is also [...]
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