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Saturday, 10 February 2007 |
You Are What You Write
 Peter Weddle In his latest newsletter, Peter Weddle writes: "A recent survey of human resource professionals found that over one-third have visited social networking sites to look for information about employment candidates. Personal pages and videos posted on MySpace.com, YouTube.com, FaceBook.com and similar sites are now fair game when employers conduct âbackground checksâ on job applicants.
With concerns about office security, employee theft, and malicious behavior on the rise, they want to learn as much as they can about the character of a person as well as their capabilities on-the-job."
"This assessment, however, is not limited to what can be found on social networking sites. It also encompasses virtually every interaction you have with an organization online. To put it another way, your evaluation now begins with the first e-mail message you send and continues through every subsequent communication you have with the organization. From an employerâs perspective, then, you are what you write."
Read Weddle's Newsletter Here
Listen to our Interview with Peter Weddle, Weddle's 2006 User's Choice Awards
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Monday, 08 January 2007 |
Stay Tuned For An All New
Total Picture Radio
New Design with All-New Features About to Launch!
We've been working on an all-new TPR, with new features, better navigation, new resources and content. We will complete the transformation to the new site this month, and will begin adding new shows again soon. We apologize for all the disruptions to the site content over the past couple of weeks.
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Saturday, 30 September 2006 |
What Recruiters Don’t Tell You...
If you’ve agonized for hours over writing the dreaded cover letter for your resume (and who hasn’t), check out Anthony Meaney’s post on Recruiting.com - and while you’re at it, read the threads.
You may want to rethink the amount of effort you expend on this exercise. Especially if you’re looking for a job with a company that has more than, say, 100 employees. In my recent interview with Heather Hamilton, I asked her if she had a “stack of resumes” on her desk. Heather can’t even remember the last time she looked at a paper resume. Which just might tell you something about cover letters. |
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Thursday, 29 June 2006 |
No Surprise: CEO is by Far the Best Job.
“I am not a paranoid deranged millionaire, goddammit, I’m a billionaire.” - Howard Hughes*
According to The Economic Policy Institute: Today's average CEO earns more before lunch in one day than the average minimum wage worker earns all year, with a compensation ratio of 821-to-1. CEO pay continues to climb, while the federal minimum wage has remained unchanged since 1997.
"The average CEO in the United States earned 262 times the pay of the average worker, the second-highest level of this ratio in the 40 years for which there are data. In 2005, a CEO earned more in one workday (there are 260 in a year) than an average worker earned in 52 weeks. CEO pay has exploded and by 2005 the average CEO was paid $10,982,000 a year, or 262 times that of an average worker ($41,861)," according to the EPI
*Quote from 100 Bullshit Jobs and How to Get Them |
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Tuesday, 20 June 2006 |
Another Sad Chapter in the Tragic Destruction of AT&T Unfolds
 Bell Labs - Photo: Charles Hayden
Driving up to Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, was an experience itself. The scale of the building is immense. Like driving up to the Mall of America. This was once the Research Center for America. For all of those who still believe great brands are somehow immune from CEO hubris, and executive egos run amuck, look no further than AT&T. Just ten years ago, AT&T was ranked number 5 on The Fortune 500.
The New York Times reports on the demise of Bell Labs.
“For 44 years, a six-story, two-million-square-foot structure nestled here in a 472-acre exquisitely pastoral setting was a habitat for technological ferment. The vaunted Bell Labs, whose scientists invented the laser and developed fiber optic and satellite communications, touch-tone dialing and cellphones, modems and microwaves, was housed in the glass building, set far off the road, providing the community with some luster — not to mention a tax bonanza. These days, the building's lobby, with its magnificent glass ceiling, is off limits to all but those having formal appointments with Lucent Technologies, which disassembled and dispersed much of Bell Labs after the collapse of the technology market in 2000. |
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