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 Recruiting Blog
Focus on Twitter for Technical Documentation (3/9/10)
Every new car has a manual in its glove compartment. Software applications have a help link when you get stuck or want to learn more about a feature. User assistance is part of our web and so is Twitter. How can Twitter can be useful for technical writers, trainers, or web publishers who provide customer [...]TwiTip Twitter Tips.
Focus on Twitter for Technical Documentation
Thinking about hiring interns? Watch out for these mistakes (3/8/10)
Believe it or not, summer will arrive. And so will interns if your organization decides to use them. Just make sure your intern program doesn’t violate Department of Labor regulations.
In opinion letters and other rulings, the DOL has set out six ironclad rules for taking on interns. A violation of any of those rules [...]
Switch is #1 on The New York Times List: The Heath Brothers Do It Again (3/8/10)
I opened that The New York Times Books section yesterday, and there it was: Chip and Dan Heath's new book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard was Number 1 on the "Advice" list (a list that is...
Don?t Let Halos and Horns Blur Your Expectations (3/8/10)
What do your company's talent conversations sound like? If you've spent more than a few minutes managing, succession planning, or doing a performance review, you know that total talent conversations can morph into a bias founded upon a single experience....
Giveaway: Networking for the Novice, Nervous or Naive Job Seeker (3/8/10)
New: an EVENING JibberJobber User Webinar TOMORROW, March 9th at 7p EST. Register here. (other webinars listed here)
LinkedIn for Job Seekers DVD for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here.Sorry about last week’s Giveaway (I skipped it!). Here’s the question for this week:
WHY do we (in general) HATE networking?
Leave your answer [...]
Private Eyes Are Watching You: Twitter Oversharing and Its Bizarre Real-World Consequences (3/8/10)
Something peculiar happened yesterday.
I was sitting in a coffee shop near work as I often do between sessions when one of the baristas sheepishly approached me. I go in there all the time, so most of them know me by face, if not by name. She said, “Are you Jeff?” I answered in the affirmative [...]TwiTip Twitter Tips.
Private Eyes Are Watching You: Twitter Oversharing and Its Bizarre Real-World Consequences
New jobs bill offers employers a tax holiday (3/8/10)
The House just passed the Senate’s $15 billion jobs bill meant to encourage you to seek out the unemployed.
Because the House added “pay as you go” budgetary provisions, it now goes back to the Senate for approval. But one of the main provisions made it through the House unscathed.
A payroll tax holiday
The bill would [...]
States and feds move to ban credit checks on job applicants (3/5/10)
The slow economy has already led a bunch of states to look at banning employers from using credit checks to screen applicants. Now, the federal government is considering a ban, too.
Legislators’ reasoning goes like this: If someone’s out of work and consequently piling up debts, how is that person supposed to climb out of [...]
DoYou Like My New Graphics? (3/5/10)
I was rather shocked, and quite delighted, to get an email from Katie Clark at IDEO yesterday with several different new graphics for the top of my blog. I didn't ask her or talk to her about, she just decided...
Ten Online Resources for Job Seekers (3/5/10)
The Internet can be a very useful tool when it comes to finding work. However, you may have to search hard and long for quality websites, since, as with most things online, there's a lot of junk. The following are...
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