From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Why Would Seth Godin Say "Don’t Try to Get a Job."?

March 31, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Seth Godin recommends Poop Scooping as a Career Over at GL Hoffman‘s site WhatWouldDadSay, guest Seth Godin writes about career opportunity and why it might be better to get laid off not to go out and look for a regular paycheck right now. Get your pens out and open up your Never-Thought-of-That-Career- [...]

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Best Cities for Careers

March 30, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Forbes Metro Ranking s – Best Cities for Business and Career Forbes has just released their 11th annual ranking list of the Best Places for Business and Careers. The table below shows the 26-50th ranked 25 metro areas as seen on the list from Forbes. Rank Metro Area Cost Of Doing Business [...]

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Raleigh North Carolina is Tops for Business and Career

March 29, 2009

Image by Steve Rhode via Flickr Forbes has just released their 11th annual ranking list of the Best Places for Business and Careers. Based on their research, Forbes says that two states are clear winners in 2009: North Carolina and Colorado. Raleigh, North Carolina tops the list for the third consecutive year based on the [...]

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US Postal Service: Going Postal on Themselves

March 26, 2009

The United States Postal Service: Where I learned everything I ever needed to know about how not to manage human resources. I was a letter carrier for 6 years. During that time I had a wide variety of exciting career experiences. These included: In my second week, I worked 13 straight hours without any kind [...]

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Is Hillary Right on Tech?

March 25, 2009

Hillary Clinton says that as a country the United States is bringing up the global rear in terms of technology, and that this makes us inefficient and ineffective in business. Is this true? Image via Wikipedia Should we all be praying for the appointment of the CTO of the United States? Should we be taking [...]

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Specter Announces Card Check Position On Senate Floor, Twitter

March 24, 2009

HR EYE on Congress Senator Arlen Specter has announced his intention not to support Card Check legislation in the Senate at this time. He has not fully dismissed a change in this position, but cited the bad economy as being the wrong time Image via Wikipedia to consider such legislation. All parties involved immediately go [...]

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New I-9 Forms Available Here

March 24, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife NEW I-9 EMPLOYEE VERIFICATION FORM REQUIRED AS OF APRIL 3, 2009 Just a reminder the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) has created a new Form I-9 for Employment Eligibility Verification. These forms were orginally scheduled to go into use in February, but the USCIS delayed implementation for 60 [...]

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Be Wary of Employment Scams

March 24, 2009

Beware “Mystery Shopper” Employment Offers I subscribe to a daily email newsletter from the Consumerist. Very often it contains useful information that is relevant to human resource issues. Today’s newsletter contained an article on a Mystery Shopper scam. The HR angle? The fraudulent letter being sent to those people being scammed is offering employment as [...]

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Dealing a New Hand on Card Check

March 22, 2009

Committee for a Level Playing Field For Union Elections Costco, Starbucks, Whole Foods An unofficial 6 point plan for creating dialogue on alternatives to Card Check, purportedly from the group (and members above) This post contains no assessment or opinion except to note that details necessary to accurately assess either the merits or the implications [...]

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Agriprocessors HR Employee Pleads Guilty

March 21, 2009

Human Resources Workers face $500,000 Fine Penny Ann Hanson, 41 of Clermont, admitted that she conspired to make false statements on immigration documents while working in the human resources office at Agriprocessors. Although currently free on bond until sentencing, she faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, a $500,000 fine, a $200 special [...]

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