From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Volkswagen orients Human Resources Worldwide on Growth Strategy

May 30, 2008

An interesting article from the web site Machinist.In regarding the approach Volkswagen is taking in communicating their global business strategy to their global Human Resources staff. Factors mentioned include: Competencies Metrics Mentoring Training Recognition Talent Acquisition Employee Participation The other top challenge discussed is the need to accomplish this task on a global basis. See [...]

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Give Yourself a Raise

May 29, 2008

Some excellent advice from a new article in Entrepreneur.com by Carol Tice, discussing how small business owners can help themselves increase earnings by taking advantage of the tax breaks and credits that are available to business owners. It is surprisingly simple and inexpensive to set your corporate structure up to permit this method of keeping [...]

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Twitter and Elevator Pitches Discussed in BusinessWeek

May 28, 2008

While not totally, related to HR, twitpitch: which might defined as presenting great ideas or plans with extreme brevity is certainly a concept that I and most business professionals should learn to adopt. Clear, concise, and limited to 140 characters could help make a lot of decisions move quicker, and business communication a much less [...]

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Leading Human Resources Company CoAdvantage Enlists Portfolio of ASO Clients

May 23, 2008

Leading Human Resources Company CoAdvantage Enlists Portfolio of ASO Clients ORLANDO, Fla. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) May 23, 2008 — CoAdvantage, a leading provider of end-to-end human resource solutions, announced today that it has acquired a portion of Gevity’s Administrative Service Offering (ASO) clients. The new business will increase CoAdvantage’s Human Resources Outsourcing (HRO) business [...]

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Bring Trust And Loyalty Back To The Workplace

May 21, 2008

This post highlights an article on Trust and Loyalty in the workplace and what impact they may have on customer service. Get the full article here You can see further comment on the article by clicking here or on the title of the article above. May 2008Bring Trust And Loyalty Back To The WorkplaceBy Roger [...]

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Google Finds That Perks Can’t Keep Some Employees From Leaving

May 19, 2008

Google has one of the most employee pampering policies, but its losing star employees; what’s happening? Google’s top 3 executives have pledged to stay with the company for two more decades. It’s not hard to imagine why with the company’s rampant success and amazing perks.Like a tropical paradise, the Google workplace environment sounds like some [...]

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Google Finds That Perks Can’t Keep Some Employees From Leaving

May 18, 2008

Google has one of the most employee pampering policies, but its losing star employees; what’s happening? Google’s top 3 executives have pledged to stay with the company for two more decades. It’s not hard to imagine why with the company’s rampant success and amazing perks.Like a tropical paradise, the Google workplace environment sounds like some [...]

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Email Inbox Surprise #2 – I keep getting mail offering me money. Where the hell is it?

May 18, 2008

Spammers wanting to give me money are making me crazy! This is a down side to being an open networker, e, I guess. Note: See the bottom of this rant for news of a great podcast with pertinent information!Note #1 in today’s email: They didn’t personalize it. Note #2: I will not be accepting your [...]

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Working at AVATEL – Employers in Paradise or 2008 Best Places to Work in Tampa Bay

May 3, 2008

The Tampa Bay Business Journal ( a great resource if you are in the Tampa Bay area!) has recently named their list of Best Places to Work for 2008, along with their sponsors Quantum Market Research, http://www.qmrinc.com/Home/bestplaces/ Brighthouse Networks, and Audio Visual Support Services, Inc. One of the companies appearing on the “BIG” company (26-50 [...]

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ON Sourcing Tools now enable sourcing from 730+ million profiles

May 3, 2008

An update about a very powerful recruiting tool from Dr. Ray van den Bel of ON Sourcing. Check out the ON Networking tool here How are you sourcing or recruiting your networking partner, client or candidate? Are you using Google Search, or are you active on a lot of social networks boasting a few million [...]

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