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Social Media Jobs Salary Guide – Infographic
15/02/2012 Comments Off on Social Media Jobs Salary Guide – Infographic
The folks at Onward Search, a Wilton, Conn.-based Internet marketing and interactive design staffing firm, developed this handy infographic salary guide for social media jobs in in 20 major U.S. cities. Social Media Jobs Salary Guide Onward describes its social media jobs salary guide as a look at the “most in-demand job titles and average […]
Continue reading …HHS Unveils Requirements For Consumer Health Insurance Labels
10/02/2012 Comments Off on HHS Unveils Requirements For Consumer Health Insurance Labels
By SUSAN JAFFE, KHN– This story details of the final regulations for the new health insurance summaries that the federal health law requires plans to give to consumers to help them make informed coverage choices. “For too many Americans today, choosing a health plan means reading through a human resources book usually the size of a small phone book and […]
Continue reading …See The Big Picture–Five Overlooked Rules Of Management
07/02/2012 Comments Off on See The Big Picture–Five Overlooked Rules Of Management
By PENELOPE TRUNK– All managers have one, shared goal: Get a promotion. But many times, the job of a manger is so multifaceted and detail-laden that the manager loses site of that big picture. Here are five jobs of a manager that are often lost in the muddle of managing smaller, day-to-day issues. 1. Manage […]
Continue reading …Recruiter Radar – Three Ways To Show Up
02/02/2012 Comments Off on Recruiter Radar – Three Ways To Show Up
By PENELOPE TRUNK — Wouldn’t it be nice if recruiters called you regularly to see if you’re interested in interviewing for one of their jobs? Here are some steps you can take to make that fantasy come true: 1. Get a high profile in your industry. Speak at conferences. You might not get paid in cash, […]
Continue reading …Humor At Work 5 Tips For Managing With Mirth
02/02/2012 Comments Off on Humor At Work 5 Tips For Managing With Mirth
A workplace that is fun is often a productive workplace. Here are 5 tips for using appropriate humor in the workplace. “Sometimes, a little levity goes a long way toward building rapport among colleagues and diffusing workplace tension,” says Max Messmer, chairman of the staffing firm Accountemps, and author of Managing Your Career For Dummies. […]
Continue reading …Second Helping: Three More Night Shift Survival Tips
30/01/2012 Comments Off on Second Helping: Three More Night Shift Survival Tips
Here are three more tips that aren’t really about nutrition but may also help if you work the night shift.Time your exercise.Regular exercise can do a lot to increase your energy and regulate your body’s rhythms despite an odd work schedule. Take full advantage of the stimulating effect of exercise by scheduling your workout before […]
Continue reading …Employee Engagement Measured In 12 Questions
30/01/2012 Comments Off on Employee Engagement Measured In 12 Questions
In the early 1990s the Gallup Organization, which conducts the often-quoted Gallup Polls, developed set of questions designed to identify and measure the elements of employee engagement that most closely affected the bottom line–things like increased sales, high productivity and creating customer loyalty. What emerged from Gallup’s decades of research, which eventually involved millions of […]
Continue reading …Resources: How to Handle Workplace Grief
02/12/2011 Comments Off on Resources: How to Handle Workplace Grief
A 2003 study by the Grief Recovery Institute in Sherman Oaks, Calif., found that employee grieving and heartbreak costs U.S. employers $75 billion a year in lost productivity, absenteeism, and increased errors and accidents. Death of a loved one is the most costly grief incident for businesses, accounting for $37.5 billion per year in losses […]
Continue reading …Employee Engagement Surveys Boost Customer Satisfaction
30/11/2011 Comments Off on Employee Engagement Surveys Boost Customer Satisfaction
By Howard Deutsch – If you need to increase your company’s competitiveness and profit, where should you start? Should you focus on your employees first, or should you start by focusing on your customers first? In reality, you need to do both. It is almost always best to start by focusing on your employees first. Highly […]
Continue reading …Resources: Find Career & Job Search Resources By State
29/11/2011 Comments Off on Resources: Find Career & Job Search Resources By State
Resource: Find Job Search Resources By State To find information for a particular state or territory, please click an area on the map or select a link from the list below the map: Please Select a State Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware DC Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill