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Archive for March, 2010

Yahoo finally gets one right

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Finally something I can agree with on Yahoo. It seems instead of re-pasting Associated Press news releases – (which Yahoo often does) it came up with some news of its own in this rare instance. As I have been saying all along in our newsletters (for those of you that subscribe) there are plenty of [...]

Are Online Schools the next group of predators?

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

First it was predatory lenders. But for the past year, my team and I have noticed an enormous surge of for profit educational enrollment. These are mostly the “ONLINE” colleges, like Kaplan, ECPI, Phoenix, etc. etc. They advertise aggressively on TV. On billboards, and all over the internet. Finally a Yahoo article is confirming what [...]

Monster, Careerbuilder, Hotjobs – Are they obsolete?

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

The recruiting-specific publications won’t let me mention “Monster” or “Hotjobs” by name due to the fact these companies provide most of the sponsorship to most state, regional, and national recruiting conferences and trade shows.  But that’s what my little “Corner” is for … speaking up on that which others won’t allow me to speak up [...]

Recruiting and Skills Assessment Uses

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Here’s a great video on the proper way to use skills and profile assessments. I’ve always been a believer that the right individual with the right attitude can be trained as to deficient skills, while the most competent individual can be impossible to work with attitude-wise. This video (by a phd in industrial psychology) underscores [...]