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Blog Post: 5 Lessons In Attracting, Onboarding and Developing Top Talent From The World’s Biggest Improv Theater: We've talked about looking to marketing and data scientists to improve…; Added by Katrina Kibben at 12:55pm on February 23, 2015

Blog Post: The AWKWARD Side of Recruiting (….and no….I’m not selling anything with this blog): No matter what your profession, we all have circumstances that make things a bit awkward. Look at Justin Bieber and how he’s been dealing with the paparazzi. And how about those folks in…; Added by Stephen Nehez, Jr. at 11:46am on June 9, 2013

Blog Post: How Do You Tell whether a piece of art is really trippy?

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Blog Post: Days 19-22: Jimmy Hoffa

You simply can't imagine what an experience it is to live in the greater Detroit area.

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Added by Stephen Nehez, Jr. at 9:39pm on June 18, 2013

Blog Post: 10 Steps to Being a Geeky IT Recruiter: This is my story. What I’m about to tell you are graphic details of my early days as an IT recruiter. If you can’t stomach this, then stop and read John Sumser's Recruiting 101 (actually, he blogs…; Added by Michael Glenn at 8:20am on April 17, 2009

Blog Post: Why HR Professionals Love to Attend These 9 Best HR Technology Events of 2020?: HR Tech events are the perfect platform where companies get an opportunity to connect to the entire HR Tech…; Added by Rchilli Parser at 2:08am on February 10, 2020

Blog Post: Austin- The City I Call Home: Austin. What a great city. I grew up here. I still live here. It is home to…; Added by Will Thomson at 3:18pm on March 15, 2014

Blog Post: Day 11: Profound thought of the week: This is Day 11 of the journey from the point where I started from scratch. To be quite frank, I'm feeling a little wobbly and brain dead that the best thing I could come up with was a misleading…; Added by Stephen Nehez, Jr. at 5:11pm on June 7, 2013

Blog Post: Regulating outdoor events: what are the laws?: You see them all over the place and at every time of the year. Whether it’s a Christmas market in the winter months, a festival or carnival in summer, or a sporting event throughout the year,…; Added by Jake Holyoak at 6:17am on October 30, 2019

Comment on: Topic 'Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year's': , which is the basis for the anno Domini system of dating, is thought to have occurred between 7 and 2 BC. December 25 is not thought to be Jesus' actual date of birth, and the date may have been chosen to correspond with either a Roman festival, or with the winter solstice. More on Christmas here. Everyone has their own Christmas traditions; mine will start on Christmas Eve when, around 4 p.m., the hustle and bustle of the day’s preparations will settle into a quiet and hushed anticipation of the evening’s celebration. My family and a few close friends will begin arriving at my house in small groups before the evening meal, which generally begins around 6. They’ll bring delicacies and cookies, candy and bags of presents. The house will be lit with myriads of fragranced candles and both fireplaces will be blazing. I’ll shush the animals (three cats and a dog) outside but they’ll scoot back in when someone opens a door to retrieve more firewood or at the first opportunity presented. This year we’ll have a rib roast with potatoes and Caesar Salad, one of my specialties. Everyone will rave about how good everything is and around 8 we’ll begin exchanging gifts. There will be a box of chocolates we pass around; recalling how as kids we would pinch out the bottoms to see what was in them. My brother will comment on my mother’s old pinched glass ornaments that survived their innards being poked out and my sister will inspect the tree decorations, recalling minute memories of our shared past Christmases. My nephew, now sixteen, will plant himself on his knees at the tree’s base and (still) excitedly pass out gifts, calling out each recipient’s name before passing the brightly wrapped box over heads, knees and elbows. A pile of paper, ribbons and bows will accumulate on the floor and furniture until someone thinks to retrieve a bag large enough to start stuffing everything into. Invariably, some small, usually light token will get swept into the bag only to be missed days later after the trash has gone out. This year, my fifteen month old granddaughter will be the center of attention. Toddling, she is all agog at the bright lights of the tree and the shiny ornaments that twinkle their reflected light. Intrigued, she stoops and pulls at the gathering boxes beneath the tree, offering me the smaller ones with a hopeful and growing expectation that I might just open one for her. (I have to admit I have.) The fun of watching her anticipation mounting is hard to describe. I can only wish this blessing for all of you someday. It will be the usual mayhem for about an hour until the last gift is passed and the tree stands with its base starkly bare. We’ll sit around and remark on the different gifts and exchange stories of glory how each was won or almost lost. I’ll look to the tree and wish silently we could back things up a couple hours once again as my siblings and theirs begin to accumulate what is now theirs and pack it all into bags for the trip home. They’ll leave with as much as they brought plus leftovers that will become part of my sister’s early afternoon meal that will go on into the evening the next day that all of us will be present at. Some of us will head for Midnight Mass – not me this year; I will head for bed with my little charge within minutes of them leaving. There will be some presents held back for her Christmas morning. In the dawn there will be another wild explosion as she tears through what Santa brought the night before. I can hardly wait. "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ." ~ Philippians Ch 4: V. 7…; Added by Maureen Sharib at 1:25am on December 24, 2008