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Fistful of Talent | 57 minutes ago

Children's Place on the Balance Sheet of Life

HBR Blogs - Across the Ages | 2 hours 5 minutes ago

Birth rates are falling pretty much around the world. In the United States, we're averaging about 2.1 kids per woman...

Should You Be Asking Your Applicants About their Social Presence?

Human Capitalist | 3 hours 20 minutes ago

President-elect Obama is requiring prospective aides to disclose, in a 9-page questionnaire, ALL social interactions and presence including blog posts, comments and “any Web sites that feature you in either a personal or professional capacity”.  This also means disclosing Facebook profiles, MySpace pages and even posts on Match.com. “…that requirement would force applicants to disclose information [...]

To MBA or not to MBA? That s Andy s question

Brazen Careerist | 9 hours 25 minutes ago

<!--break--> There s a discussion going on over at Brazen Careerist. Andy Drish is trying to decide whether to get an MBA or not. His dilemma came about because his employer is offering to pay for part of his MBA and he s finding that to be too good an offer to refuse. Among the things that have been brought up in the course of the discussion are: Whether or not he has enough work experience or will he be one of the youngest in the program and feel that he cannot contribute as much as...

Biz Prof: What do Bhopal, Enron and Meltdown 08 Have in Common?

BNET Management Blog | 10 hours 18 minutes ago

The Find: Sure, all three were massive business disasters, but Freek Vermeulen insists they also had the same underlying cause: a combination of excessive complexity and “the myopia of success,” seasoned with a healthy dash of greed. The Source: The Random Rantings blog of Vermeulen, a strategy professor at the London Business School. The Takeaway: A gas [...]Presented By:Expedition Week Continues TonightSeven nights of one great discovery after another continues tonight at 9P e/...

If You Build It, They Won t Come

Brazen Careerist | 11 hours 55 minutes ago

<!--break-->First of all, in a delightful homage to something — irony, maybe? — I’d like to let you know that according to Alexa, my website gets no traffic. Nope, not even from you. (Alexa is a website traffic ranking website that compares your traffic to other sites.) Back when this site was getting 15,000 hits a week, it was about the 60,000th most popular site on the internet.Now that it’s getting 100,000 hits a week, it is the 357,930th most popular site on the...

Take Your Blog to the Next Level by Going Offline

Brazen Careerist | 11 hours 55 minutes ago

When it comes to social change, we often talk about how the conversation should start online and move offline to better mobilize people for action. What I have noticed though, is that acting offline is great for you as a blogger.<!--break--> You can increase readership, develop better content, and create a stronger network by stepping offline. The reasons for this are pretty simple:Not everyone blogs: Whenever I go to a conference or event I am often outnumbered by people who don’t b...

Stop Following The Crowd

Brazen Careerist | 11 hours 55 minutes ago

I really try to avoid layoff talk in my blog. To me, it is unneeded news and perspective on something other news outlets will be covering much better than I do. I hate layoffs. I hate being a part of them. I don't like breaking the news to people. I don't know a single person that enjoys it either. I think they should be avoided at all costs.<!--break-->I could go on. So when I heard that CitiGroup will be laying off 53,000 people by the end of Q1 2009, I didn’t feel like writing abo...

Salomon: 2010 Set to Be Worst Year for MBA Hiring

BNET Management Blog | 12 hours 1 minute ago

The Find: BusinessWeek is reporting that recruiting at B-schools is either flat or has fallen up to 10%, but Robert Salomon thinks these numbers are too optimistic, and predicts the class of 2010 will face the worst of the hiring crisis. The Source: The blog of Robert Salomon, a management professor at Stern School of Business, [...]

Healthcare Is Personal

Brazen Careerist | 12 hours 27 minutes ago

<!--break-->What I remember now more than anything is the feeling of helplessness. Absolute, complete, bottomless helplessness.I was lying in a stretcher waiting to go in for surgery. My hands were shaking, I was covered in a cold sweat, and my heart was pumping furiously. I was bleeding internally. I had been for 3 days after my first surgery had gone awry. My indefatigable sense of humor was gone. No more joking with nurses about my last rites, no more requests for sushi or bourbon. Just...

101 Ways to Rock and Be Rocked by Twitter

Brazen Careerist | 12 hours 27 minutes ago

<!--break-->Use your real name. Save the company bit for the info section.Use a picture that shows your face. Skip the silly goggles, hats, and political stickers. Show me who you are!Create a twitter background that gives people a quick synopsis of who you are. Learn how to create your own here.Share a link to your own blog posts.Find a cool new tool? Share it. My latest find- The Jing Project. Show gratitude.Ask for help. (Anyone know why puppies love peanuts?)Start a discussion!Re-tweet...

Six Tips to Manage Your Time in College

Brazen Careerist | 12 hours 27 minutes ago

Being involved in multiple student organizations is a great experience. It’s even better to hold several leadership positions. But with the semester drawing to an end in just three weeks, I’m feeling a little overwhelmed.<!--break-->I spend about 11 hours a week in a classroom, 14 hours a week working, and at least 7 hours in various meetings for committees and student organizations. I’m honestly not sure how I managed to get to my homework.So how do I manage my time effe...

The Debate Continues: My Argument for Personal Branding

Brazen Careerist | 12 hours 27 minutes ago

<!--break-->Geoff Livingston, a brilliant blogger and thought leader, has generated a lot of buzz lately by laying out arguments against personal branding.Using some of Geoff’s arguments as a starting point, I’d like to share why I believe personal branding is valuable to you, valuable to customers, and valuable to corporations.First: What is personal branding?I use this definition of personal branding:“The process of compellingly marketing yourself - based on what you le...

The Single-Sex Workplace

Brazen Careerist | 12 hours 58 minutes ago

<!--break--> Hannah Seligson is onto something."I left the egalitarianism of the classroom for the cubicle, and everything changed. The realization that the knowledge and skills acquired in school don t always translate at the office is something that all college graduates, men and women, must face. But for women, I have found, the adjustment tends to be much harder," Seligson writes in a New York Timesarticle.She continues:The more traditionally feminine trait of sensitivity, while ofte...

- Jessica Lee is an Employment Manager for APCO Worldwide, a global PR firm in D.C. Like most upscale HR pros, she spends half of her time on recruiting, the other half on ER, Training and OD. When she's not hammering a candidate to determine Motivational Fit, she's thinking about the future of HR, and wondering how she can avoid using the job boards to fill the next spot in her organization...Total Pay Transparency With Presidential Appointments? We Don't Need No Stinking Salary Ranges...

Fistful of Talent | 14 hours 36 minutes ago

One of the things that you always hear is that the government has complete pay transparency, listing a grade and range structure for each position. With that in mind, I was excited to get a copy of the "Plum" book,...

Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow... Before You Leave Though, About That Exit Interview...

Fistful of Talent | 14 hours 36 minutes ago

I was in the Big Apple a few weeks ago. It was a wonderful time and really, words or a blog entry won't do it any justice... so I won't try. I had a bit of a hard time saying...

Lying On Your Resume - It's Going to Get You, But It'll Wait Until You've Arrived...

Fistful of Talent | 14 hours 36 minutes ago

We live in a culture that wants to pump things up a bit beyond reality, don't we? Look around and the evidence is everywhere - plastic surgery, wall street earnings and, of course, performance enhancing drugs. You're Hans. I'm Franz....

Children's Place on the Balance Sheet of Life

HBR Blogs - Across the Ages | 21 hours 6 minutes ago

Birth rates are falling pretty much around the world. In the United States, we're averaging about 2.1 kids per woman...

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