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Blog Post: Urban vs. Forest Firefighter: What's the Difference in Jobs?: When it comes to firefighting, there are two main factions of jobs to choose from. The stereotypical firefighter you think of with a pole slide and Dalmatian is an urban career, but many don’t…; Added by Brooke Chaplan at 2:24pm on September 8, 2016

Blog Post: Urban vs. Forest Firefighter: What's the Difference in Jobs?: When it comes to firefighting, there are two main factions of jobs to choose from. The stereotypical firefighter you think of with a pole slide and Dalmatian is an urban career, but many don’t…; Added by Brooke Chaplan at 2:24pm on September 8, 2016

Blog Post: How Can Happy Employees Make For More Productive Workers?: The well-being of employees is crucial. Improper care for staff can impact their performance and can have harmful effects within a company.…; Added by Adam Johnson at 5:17am on February 16, 2022

Blog Post: Management Training For Recruitment Companies: How A Management Coach Will Improve Your Skills: Management training for recruitment companies, is it really that essential? And it's a fair point - after all, the internet is vast,…; Added by Nicky Coffin at 7:31pm on May 29, 2013

Blog Post: WHAT, Pray Tell Were You Thinking?: I was having one of those fun discussions with another recruiter last night. You know the kind where one of you says, "you are not going to believe what my candidate or my client did today". …; Added by Sandra McCartt at 4:47pm on June 19, 2012

Comment on: Blog Post 'How Obama Will Fix the Economy And Re-Invent Recruiting': Sr. Execs, and Hiring Managers moaning and groaning that they don't understand why the best of the best won't crawl over broken glass for their underpaid jobs at their pathetic wannabe/has-been companies. As I said late last year: "With the exception of the "Fab 5%" (and some highly in-demand skill sets)- you can find very good people for the positions, if the hiring managers are reasonable about who they will hire. The "War for Talent" is a con job- there's wars for "excellence on the cheap" and "purple squirrels" but not for solid people who will work hard and long at a reasonably paid and benefitted FT job. If your company needs excellence- be prepared to pay for it (or at least have SOMETHING excellent for 'em), and if your company really needs a "purple squirrel" or some skillset that can't be obtained at ANY price- you've got a bunch of idiots over there getting themselves into that situation and you better get out FAST before the whole thing tumbles down around you....” I don't think we need tax subsidies/government-run training to hire the long term unemployed- I think we need to create 20 million, FT decently paid well-benefitted jobs fixing up the $1T+ infrastructure (roads, streets, highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, seaports, rail, telecom, schools, parks, smart grid, energy efficiency) that benefits EVERYBODY. Even Adam Smith *thought this (public works) was a good thing for governments to do, and if we did it, we'd be like a big-*** Singapore, COMPETITIVE AS **** compared to the rest of the world. Folks, if you can come up with some alternative "non-make work" plan to create 20M+ good jobs, we' re listening:..... Cheers, Keith * The Wealth of Nations Book V: On the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth Adam Smith Chapter I: On the Expenses of the Sovereign or Commonwealth Part III: On the Expense of Public Works and Public Institutions The third and last duty of the sovereign or commonwealth is that of erecting and maintaining those public institutions and those public works, which, though they may be in the highest degree advantageous to a great society, are, however, of such a nature that the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals, and which it therefore cannot be expected that any individual or small number of individuals should erect or maintain. The performance of this duty requires, too, very different degrees of expense in the different periods of society. After the public institutions and public works necessary for the defence of the society, and for the administration of justice, both of which have already been mentioned, the other works and institutions of this kind are chiefly those for facilitating the commerce of the society, and those for promoting the instruction of the people. The institutions for instruction are of two kinds: those for the education of youth, and those for the instruction of people of all ages. The consideration of the manner in which the expense of those different sorts of public, works and institutions may be most properly defrayed will divide this third part of the present chapter into three different articles. Article 1: On the Public Works and Institutions for facilitating the Commerce of the Society And, first, of those which are necessary for facilitating Commerce in general. That the erection and maintenance of the public works which facilitate the commerce of any country, such as good roads, bridges, navigable canals, harbours, etc., must require very different degrees of expense in the different periods of society is evident without any proof. The expense of making and maintaining the public roads of any country must evidently increase with the annual produce of the land and labour of that country, or with the quantity and weight of the goods which it becomes necessary to fetch and carry upon those roads. The strength of a bridge must be suited to the number and weight of the carriages which are likely to pass over it. The depth and the supply of water for a navigable canal must be proportioned to the number and tonnage of the lighters which are likely to carry goods upon it; the extent of a harbour to the number of the shipping which are likely to take shelter in it. …; Added by Keith D. Halperin at 5:31pm on February 17, 2014

Blog Post: Winning Dynamics in Corporate and Agency Recruitment?

Do any recruiting professionals remember a time when a recurring…

Added by James Chmielinski at 5:10pm on December 4, 2016

Blog Post: South Africa’s Employment Times: Jobs, Unemployment and Hiring in Q4 2009.: In a statement by Mr Ebrahim Patel, Minister of Economic Development, to the National Assembly on the framework for South Africa’s response to the International Economic Crisis on 20 August 2009 he…; Added by Gillian Meier at 10:24am on November 11, 2009

Blog Post: Drive your career with a business from a van: Has your current career route hit a roadblock? Are you tired of your typical 9-5 job and looking for a new career adventure? If you have your own van, then you’ll be excited to hear that there are…; Added by Jake Holyoak at 4:26am on September 28, 2017

Blog Post: Every Company Has A Recruiting Strategy (some just don’t know it!): “Plan your work. Work your plan.” I’ve seen those words attributed to the great Green Bay Packer Football (not futbol) Coach, Vince Lombardi. Trainers have applied those words to all sorts of…; Added by Bill Humbert at 6:13pm on May 28, 2012