May 272008
 

Earlier this month, I presented a workshop at the 13th Annual Maine HR Convention. The topic was creating an employment brand to attract better candidates. Here are a couple excerpts of that presentation. If you’d like the 6 page summary of this information, please send me a request to jblais@jobsintheus.com, or if YOU are “Linked In”, you can shoot me a request through that site. Today, we’ll focus on just one area affecting employee retention: [...]

May 082008
 

Okay, okay, it’s true…. I should know better by now and these little things shouldn’t bother me any more, but I have to just vent for one moment. Today, I’m spending my second day at the 13th Annual ME HR Convention in Rockport, ME. I rec’d a call from the manager of the gulf coast territory, and needed to send a file to him via email… Unfortunately, I had to VPN in to my office [...]

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May 032008
 

First, for those of you who had sent me some inquiries over the last month, thanks for noticing that the blog had not been updated… at least that means that some people were checking in! As it turned out, I did not put up a single post in April, which is a shame, I think, considering the frequency and quality of events that happened last month. Ah well… no sense in looking back… As it [...]