Bloggers Beware–Liabilities, Licensing, & Legalese

Like most anything in this world, there are benefits as well as risk.  Blogging is no different. Bloggers Beware–Liabilities, Licensing, & Legalese Earlier this month, the Associate Press (AP) announced that they are now recognizing blogging as a credible new source.  By recognizing blogging as a credible source for news, the AP will provide attribution […]

Professional Suicide – How People Ruin Their Careers

A few common incidents on ruining your career

Of late, I am seeing many people committing professional suicide and I am sure that you might have seen or at least have read about it. What is this form of suicide is all about? Is it committing suicide at workplace or is it committing suicide for work related issues? It is neither. Professional suicide […]

Your Job Site: Use The Coffee Shop Recruiting Model–Get Your Double Shot

The Coffee Shop Online Recruiting Model

This blog post has been published at MonsterThinking.com. Be sure to check out their website and their other featured writers there Online job sites can be found on every virtual corner, just like your neighborhood coffee shop. When I visited my local java brewer recently, it occurred to me that a job site can mirror […]

Guinea Pigs, Google, and You

A Fe Things We Can Learn From Google

How do you know if that next big idea will or won’t work as a strategy in your company? Is it because you’ve tested and measured to find that result, or is it because you made an assumption ahead of time? Maybe you should give things a test run on a sample population (your guinea […]

How to WARN Act Impacts Company Layoffs

layoffs, fired, termination, cutbacks

What is the WARN Act? The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (WARN Act) is a United States labor law which protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide sixty- (60) calendar-day advance notification of plant closings and mass layoffs of employees. It became […]

5 Ways to Rock the Job Search

Ways You Can Rock Your Job Search

I don’t remember who said it, but someone once told me that looking for a job is pretty much a full-time job in itself.  Boy were they right Since becoming unemployed in October of 2009, I have managed to rack up hours upon hours of searching for the next job.  I’ve managed to pick up […]