The young captains, many of whom don’t know they’re way around seas, and lacking the knowledge that only comes with age and experience, are ill-equipped for fishing in the open waters. Yet that’s where they’ll soon be sent. And quickly, they’ll find that those exotic fish are harder to find in the open ocean than they anticipated.
Business & Economy
New Job Advertisments Up in February 2010
Based on the foremost 3rd party authority for metrics of online job postings, the number of new job ads has grown in the US for the third straight month, nearing levels from 2006.
JobsInTheUS
August 2009 Vermont JobReport
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(THE FOLLOWING IS COPY FROM A NEW PILOT FOR A MONTHLY JOB REPORT PRODUCED BY VERMONTTV.NET FOR JOBSINVT.COM)
The July job numbers showed positive signs that the worst of the economic downturn may be behind us. Let’s start by looking at the statewide job posting numbers.
In July, the total number [...]
Employment Branding
Internal Company Email Exposed
Upon reading this internal communication, I realized just how much negative press has been devoted to exposing the dark underbelly of corporate greed through the acquisition of private and revealing emails. Rarely does one encounter a news bit that begins with, “Our station has acquired a copy of the internal email…”, and is followed [...]
Business & Economy
A Two Billion Dollar Secret
Why would you want to keep a two billion dollar industry a secret? I hope the answer is that no one would want to, but that sometimes these things happen. The aerospace and aviation industry represents a two billion dollar piece of the Vermont economy, and employs thousands of Vermont residents…who knew.
Part of [...]
Employment Branding
Press Release: Indicators Show Positive Employment Numbers
Just getting out ahead of the curve a bit on this one. My firm will be releasing the following press release shortly. Amazingly, while job seeker traffic is at record highs, there has also been growth in online job postings for two consecutive months
New England’s #1 Recruitment Resource shows record growth [...]
Human Capital Management
RFL: Job Postings INCREASED in February!
I spent some time this morning pulling some data and analyzing our metrics from February. Though expecting to see a reflection of the economic status, I was very surprised to see actual growth in the number of job postings from Jan to Feb 2009. Trust me, I didn’t believe it at first either. [...]
Employment Branding
RFL: Down Economy? Don’t Just Sit On Your Hands!
Word of caution to all HR and staffing professionals. NOW is certainly NOT the time to ignore your recruiting strategies. I’ve spoken with a few companies recently who have expressed that due to the economy, and their hiring freeze or reductions, they aren’t giving any attention to the employment brand or recruiting strategies [...]
JobsInTheUS
RFL: Building Strong Relationships
The New England territories of JobsInTheUS, JobsInME, JobsInNH, JobsInRI, JobsInMA, and JobsInVT, will continue to expand our network of business and trade association partners in 2009.Through the successful JiUS Connects pilot program, affinity partnerships were formed with the NH Lodging and Restaurant Association, RI Hospitality Association, and the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce in 2008. [...]
Human Capital Management
Best Skills Inventory I’ve Found
I’ve been researching Skills Inventories and Skill Sets in relation to job functions for an upcoming seminar I’m developing. If you’d like to share your input on what I’m working on, please check out some more detail in this forum at HRM TODAY, the Social Network for Today’s HR Professional- free plug Laurie, no [...]
