Miller Brewing Company, one of America’s most iconic brands and most popular beers, wants to give you more than a nice cold one. The Wisconsin-based brewer is revisiting its Miller Urban Entrepreneur Series (MUES), a 9 year-old business plan competition and seminar series designed to provide funding and resources to urban entrepreneurs to take their [...]
Unfortunately, I can’t tell you that the bad part is over, but I can tell you that there are still companies expanding, still hiring. Here are just a few.
Amazon.com - Amazon.com is looking to hire “several hundred” full-time employees at its Whitestown, Indiana fulfillment center opening this summer. Amazon is hiring to fill [...]
As I’ve been working my way through the crowds at the Cannes Ad Fest, I’ve met a lot of very interesting, if inebriated, folks. Once we make it through the minutia–Who are you? Who do you work for? Are you on the short list?–my fellow festival-goers had some very interesting stuff to [...]
This is what the advertising who’s who is up to late night.
Silly Admen. Dancing’s for better dancers.
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So, I’m back on the French Riviera enjoying the 2008 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. I have developed a certain begrudged fondness for the folks who attend this raucous festival. Much as I’ve made fun of them, I have to admit that they do know how to party like rock stars.
Thus far, the [...]
Oprah was the commencement speaker for the 2008 graduating class at Stanford University. Oprah offered new grads the following advice:
Find your passion
Put your energy behind your passion
Believe in something
Stand for something bigger than yourself
Get the lesson
Can’t go wrong with words of wisdom from the the big “O”.
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I’ll be coming to you live from the annual Cannes international Advertising Festival for the next week (It’d a hard life for this career blogger). Stay tuned.
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Wal-Mart’s shelf space is money in the bank! For many inventors, manufacturers and distributors getting their stuff on the shelves at Wal-Mart is the dream. Millionaires are made at Wally World, if only you can get your stuff on the shelves.
Good luck with that. Ask anyone who’s tried and they’ll tell you that it’s very [...]
There were 3,795,400 jobs posted online last month. That’s 2.5 jobs posted for every 100 persons in the labor force.
(Source: The Conference Board Help-Wanted OnLine Data Seriesâ„¢)
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That’s right! Twenty-six percent (26%) of employers expect to increase hiring activity this quarter (July-September). That’s what Manpower’s Q3/200 Employment Outlook Survey revealed. Released today, the report also revealed that fifty-eight percent (58%) of employers expect no change in hiring activity, while only 10% expect a decrease in hiring activity.
But all sectors [...]
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