I’m constantly researching something! I visit dozens of webpages in a day, hundreds a week–each for a different bit of information. I’ve tried a million ways of saving and organizing notes for later reference. I’ve tried bookmarking, saving as PDF, printing pages, keeping a bazillion tabs open at any one time. [...]
Every now and again the Brits have a few useful ideas that we’d like to “borrow”. This one’s a veritable box of goodies. The Brits call it Flexible Support for Business. I call it a miracle, one that I hope is reproducible…and relocatable.
Amazon recently set out to open a distribution center in Jersey Marine, Neath [...]
April 18, 2008 – 12:16 am
Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the candidate pool, someone invents something else to ferret out way more information than is necessary to decide if you’re the right fit for that “wow-I-think-I-could-pan-handle-and-make-more-than-this” job.
Fetch Technologies recently announced a new product called Fetch Footprint. The product is designed to access candidate data [...]
I know it’s tough out there, but there are still jobs out there. Here’s the latest list of new jobs. This one’s a big one–nearly 2,500 jobs!
COMPANIES ADDING JOBS
Whirlpool Corp. says it will add more than 100 jobs at its Tulsa manufacturing plant beginning this month.
CSX Transportation plans to hire about 80 [...]
Today is that dreaded day–Tax Day–the day you scramble to the post office to mail your life to the grim reaper. If you’re like me, you spend far too much time sweating the tax code (most of which is not in a human language), then get all of the return cards and tracking stuff you [...]
Bezos and his bunch at Amazon.com have been busy little beavers of late, adding products and services like Kindle and the Kindle Store, video product reviews, Askville, CreateSpace, UnBox–you name it. All that creating has created a need to hire at least 500 new employees.
Amazon.com plans to hire over 500 new employees in its three [...]
The big winners in this economic downturn are the oil and gas companies. They are earning record profits, still getting generous tax breaks and getting $100 bucks a barrel for their product. Granted, they are also generating plenty of boos and hisses. But, good, bad or ugly, they are fertile ground for career and job [...]