Category Archives: Associations/EventsCareersthatdontsuck.com presents “The Resume Autopsy”, a 2-hour intensive workshop designed to help attendees rewrite, and in some cases, resuscitate their resumes.
Why this workshop?
The second biggest complaint among job-seekers is “I send my resume and no one calls or writes me back” (The biggest complaint is that they’re still haven’t found a job). This workshop will [...]
On to my next session. Stephen O’Grady is talking about “Open Source Business Models”. Basically, we’ve learned that money is not bad and open source folks would like some.
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Today I’m attending the first full day of classes at Stanford University. I’m attending the Stanford Professional Publishing Course (I won the American Magazine Publishers Diversity Fellowship). My day began with a presentation by futurist Paul Saffo, a Stanford engineering professor. Saffo’s presentation, Publishing in a Post-Information Age, was packed with interesting (and amusing) bits [...]
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 [...]
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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The Pres has declared this week (April 21-25) National Small Business Week, a week dedicated to recognizing and celebrating small businesses and their contribution to our economy. Several small business owners and plenty of politicos will be out and about in Washington, DC to participate in the week’s events, panels and award ceremonies. [...]
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 [...]
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