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Blog Post: Tru Unconferences reach Africa: I’m not a tree hugger, well I am, but not in the ‘protest and chain myself to a bark for the day’ type of tree hugger. However I do believe in karma of sorts. Allow me to take recruitment down the…; Added by Dee Allan at 8:39pm on January 17, 2010

Topic: How Twitter Makes Liars of Us: e some time to celebrate together and just enjoy the amusement park. As we hold annual Disneyland passes and my daughter's weekend was free, there were no real obstacles for her to overcome in order to be a part of these plans; other than a Friday night trip to the mall to pick up a gift for her friend. One of the girls, Olivia, is very involved with a dance troupe and has weekend workouts. Her mother, at her daughter's urging, decided to let her off the hook and play hooky from dance class/practices. The mom called the instructor, falsely declaring that Olivia was ill and would not be coming into the studio on Saturday. All seemed right with the world and plans continued on for a great day and overnight celebration. That is, until Olivia decided to send out a tweet stating her joy at going to Disneyland with her best friends. When we only think about our world, we believe it exists alone. One of Olivia's followers is a fellow dance student, who promptly told Olivia's dance instructor, that she was not sick but having a grand time at Disneyland. The instructor then promptly called the mom, unhappy with the deceit that had been spun and the skipping out of dance class that had taken place. From my understanding, Mom laughed it off. While this is not a capital offense, by any means, it does speak to the ease in which a simple error in judgment and a misplaced lie can lead to complications, hurt feelings, and a loss of trust. Olivia is now fearful of her next visit to the studio..., will she lose her solo? will the instructor embarrass her? can she rebuild the trust? And if the answer is no, to any of these, how does she move forward from here? Again, a simple error in judgment, but a lie was told nonetheless. We will all have thoughts about who to blame... The point of my story is that transparency lends itself to just that: transparency. And if you are not ready for transparency, maybe new media is not the place to be spending your time. I see every day, candidates tweeting regarding a horrible interview or the jerk of a hiring manager for whom they would never work. What happens in social media doesn't just stay there, it is everywhere for everyone to see. Candidates should be reminded of this and often; we all should. Cognisance. It's not just for breakfast. © by rayannethorn …; Added by Rayanne at 2:48am on February 1, 2010

Blog Post: Cannibalization of HR - Save Recruiting from Being the Next Victim: Recently I read a great book called In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of…; Added by Francois Guay at 12:13pm on October 13, 2011

Blog Post: Cycling Expert Reveals Budget-Friendly Cycling Breaks in the North West

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Comment on: Topic '(Fun facts) Did you know.....? Well now you do.': salad served first class: $40,000. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38% Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7 (I wonder how they discovered THIS? I guarantee it wasn't original research on my part.) Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80% Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man if they had it to do all over again: 50% Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400 Average number of people airborne over the US at any given hour: 61,000 Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70% Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. The youngest pope was 11 years old. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation. First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ? The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of old when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.) When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2nd, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target,it got "the whole 9 yards." Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from…; Added by Amber Powell to THE RECRUITER'S BREAK ROOM at 3:31pm on June 19, 2008

Blog Post: Deal or No Deal: Getting Top Talent to Accept Your Offer

By Roy Notowitz, Managing Director, Notogroup

The TV show "Deal or No Deal" is a game of chance, but ensuring that your finalist candidates accept your offer does not have to have the…

Added by Roy Notowitz at 3:28pm on June 2, 2008

Blog Post: What Makes You HOT In IT: This almost sounds like the title for an article in some romance magazine and in a way, one could say the concept of romance does come into play with what the article is all…; Added by Phil Robles at 9:06pm on September 20, 2008

Blog Post: "What If You Get Pregnant?": Attitudes to Women in Tech are not Keeping Apace with the Digital Revolution

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Topic: NEW YEAR..NEW FRENZY OF SELF PROMOTION: homes telling me i need to think about the Alpha-Omega plan as the new year starts. Insurance companies telling me that this is the time to think about who is going to pay my bills and support everyone i ever knew if i should croak this year. Not to mention all the catalogs telling me that all the crap i bought for Christmas is now on sale at 50% off. Listen up promoters, i spent a few bucks on Christmas. I am focused on going back to work to pay off the credit cards. I am not thinking about dying and if do that may have crossed my mind before Jan 2nd, i really don't want to know that the stuff i bought for Christmas was really only worth half of what i paid for it. I know you do that before inventory but please don't shove it down my throat. And all those offers for 300 more credit cards that are going to give me more cash back, blah, blah. Shred, shred, shred. No wonder the united states post office is inefficient. They are drop shippers of tons of liners for cat boxes and bird cages and fodder for the shredder that somebody else wants to sell me to get rid of all the junk mail. So i check my email and the amount of spam from somebody selling everything from every get rich quick scheme to cruises to escape the winter, software updates and letters from politicians is exceeded only by resumes of candidates who haven't worked in a year, can't or won't read a job description and have made a new year's resolution to find a job. Great me too and i have no interest in viagra or any other type of male enhancement. Delete, delete, delete. Looking for some respite from the deluge of junk mail, email spam and robo calls (every other one for the past few days) i decide to check in on the blogs and websites that i frequent. Holy Hell, every software vendor, career coach, half baked recruiter and everybody else who has some wonderful solution that is going to make my job a walk in the park is posting some promotional blog about social networking, career advice for free, news reports with links to their web site or blog to generate traffic so they can count the number of hits they got before their boss fires them or splaining that they are "branding" themselves . GET BACK!!!!!! Give us a break, or let's start a group called MARKETING AND PROMOTION FRENZY FOR THE NEW YEAR so all you little darlins can promote your selves, brand your selves, generate traffic to your boring blog without making a contribution to this community and generally get your stuff relegated to where it should be. In a pit where all junk mail, spam and self promotion goes to stink up a place where nobody really wants to go. You are "branding" yourself but trust me sports, it's not what you had in mind. Or maybe you should all get together and take turns flopping this stuff out there so we can at least spread it out over the year. Did you miss something in marketing 101 about not irritating the folks you are trying to sell to? Or maybe i'm off base and i should deluge every client i have ever had with emails and calls beating them to death for job orders the first week of the year so i can piss them off early and i can go back to bed. Oh and by the way. I can read something that is not numbered. Just write it and learn to write an interesting headline instead of "4 thousand reasons you need to read this". That is a lot like saying, "We would like to say thank you.". Great, how about you just say thank you instead of letting me know that you would like to. …; Added by Sandra McCartt at 2:15pm on January 6, 2012