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By CareerBuilder blogger on Nov 26, 2008 in Careers | 0 Comments
We’re just a day away from Thanksgiving, and the news stations are reporting on how many of us are traveling this season.
Our infrastructure works pretty well during the holidays thanks to a number of dedicated employees…
By CareerBuilder blogger on Nov 25, 2008 in Featured | 1 Comment
In this climate of economic upheaval, companies are making changes and cutting costs wherever they can. Extra expenditures have been snipped from the budget and open positions are not being filled. Many companies are scaling back their holiday gatherings, or canceling them altogether.
If you work at a company that’s making these changes right now, no one [...]
By CareerBuilder blogger on Nov 25, 2008 in Featured | 0 Comments
Cyber Monday always follows Black Friday on the calendar…
What it Cyber Monday? Well, for years retailers have had “Black Friday,” the enormously busy sales day on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Cyber Monday (a term coined by the National Retail Federation for the first Monday following Thanksgiving) is the following Monday, when employers see a spike in workers [...]
By CareerBuilder blogger on Nov 24, 2008 in Featured | 0 Comments
The Wall Street Journal was talking about an incredibly timely topic recently.
The life cycle of the hiring process at your company probably averages between two and six weeks, depending on what kind of research and due diligence human resources is doing for all the candidates and how crucial the job is to the core business [...]
By CareerBuilder blogger on Nov 21, 2008 in Fun stuff, Job Surveys, Work/Life | 1 Comment
Are you a ham or a fruitcake? Giftwise, that is.
That’s the question asked by HON, a company that designs and manufactures office furniture. HON surveyed over 800 workers across the country about what kind of gift they received from their employers.
Here’s what the survey revealed:
Over half of the employees who responded (54 percent) received a cash bonus.
On the flip [...]
By CareerBuilder blogger on Nov 21, 2008 in Featured | 0 Comments
Stephanie Meyer’s “Twilight” books are one example of a career in writing. The Work Buzz talks to Vance Briceland, a writer who’s had over a dozen books published, to get behind-the-scenes.
By CareerBuilder blogger on Nov 21, 2008 in Featured | 0 Comments
I don’t know about you, but I’m definitely getting the holiday spirit. It’s getting dark earlier, the stores all have holiday displays up, and I even saw flakes of snow this week.
This is also the time of year where many workers with full-time jobs are seeking out a seasonal second job for the holidays. In seasons [...]
By CareerBuilder blogger on Nov 20, 2008 in Job Search | 20 Comments
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There’s been more bad news about the economy lately, like the Department of Labor’s recent reports. Initial filings of unemployment claims are at [...]
By CareerBuilder blogger on Nov 19, 2008 in Fun stuff | 1 Comment
The calendar still says fall, but several areas of the country were recently socked with a nice heaping helping of snow.
Personally, I’m all about snow around the holidays, but the novelty of snow usually wears off after the new year…which is about the same time that snow is coupled with some of the coldest temperatures [...]
By CareerBuilder blogger on Nov 19, 2008 in Compensation | 2 Comments
Compensation is a priority for anyone who’s got a job. Period.
Jobs can be rewarding, engaging and encourage personal growth as well as professional advancement, but at the end of the day, we do what we do so that we can be compensated with a paycheck and ancillary benefits.
Most of us focus on the “paycheck” part, [...]
