JobDig was featured in the August/September issue of Dynamic Graphics magazine. The article focuses on leveraging characters to build a strong, memorable brand, and our iconic dog is highlighted as a perfect example of how to execute such a strategy. I try fairly hard not to be overly self-serving in this blog (I’ll let all [...]
The horrific, tragic collapse of the 35W bridge earlier tonight in Minneapolis should serve as a horrendous wake-up call to Governor Pawlenty and the state legislators (as well as a completely inept, significantly underfunded Department of Transportation) who for years have consistently and obstinately refused to raise sufficient revenue to repair, support, and improve a [...]
In an informative article in Human Resource Executive entitled ‘The Butt Stops Here,’ Barbara Worthington details the recent trends in corporate smoking policies along with a thorough recounting of the statistics supporting corporate efforts to curtail the effects of smoking. As a side bar to the article, there is also an update on Scotts Miracle-Gro’s [...]
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Despite how poorly U.S. schools have fared against other industrialized nations over the past decade, there apparently is hope that the country is still capable of developing geniuses. The winner of the Intel Science Talent Search, 17 year-old Mary Masterson, built a working spectograph at home for $300 and won a $100,000 scholarship. The device, [...]
Last night I attended a panel discussion hosted by the Collaborative entitled “Minnesota’s Philanthropic Tradition and Its Future.” It was an excellent event, selling out with an attendance of more than 350 people, and perfectly representative of why Dan Carr and the Collaborative continue to bring enormous value to the Twin Cities Business community. On [...]
As a huge proponent of satellite radio, and a very happy customer of both companies (I use Sirius most of the time, but bought an XM portable when it beat Sirius by developing the first portable device), I hope that the announced merger this week is approved by regulators. From what I have read, the [...]
At the risk of falling into the trap that dooms most blogs (thinking that my microscopic readership cares in the least about some tedious detail of my life), I’ve decided to try a little experiment. For a few weeks, I am going to time how long it takes me each day to read the local [...]
I’m David Manaster, CEO of ERE Media, the leading trade publisher for recruiting professionals. Toby is generously hosting this guest post on his blog as part of the Recruiting Blog Swap.
It’s a tough time to be in the daily newspaper business. Even as advertising online is booming, the dailies are seeing at best [...]
This post is part of the Blogswap. Guest writer Your HR Guy writes today about advertising for recruitment.
If you read the subject line and thought “Yes! Finally a post about how all this alternative sourcing is worthless!” you have been had. Newspapers and mega-job sites are losing marketshare to alternative sourcing and they aren’t [...]