Archive for January, 2008
Podcast – The Recruiters Lounge – The Best Companies To Work For and Why
The Best Companies To Work For and Why
Jim and Karen discuss the best companies to work for and what makes them so special, a new trend in outsourcing – childbirth and how employee discrimination affects a company’s bottom line. And in all this, Jim manages to talk more than Karen. (As if that were even [...]
SALARY SURVEY: How much money do HR workers make now (and will make later)? Find out!
Check out the highlight of an article I just read over at CNN. Very interesting…
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Think you’ve got what it takes to make a successful career in HR? Here are 10 common HR positions with increases in job growth, according to SHRM and the BLS.
1. Compensation supervisors oversee the pay practice area of compensation, including wage, [...]
(Another) New look for my comic – The Recruiting Life
With this edition of “The Recruiting Life” I am trying something different. You may notice that my comic is formatted somewhat differently than before. The engine behind this new look is Comiqs and I was so fascinated by their tech that I decided to give it a try. So for the next few comics I [...]
HR Survey says, “No love for the ladies of tech”
Hat tip to Janine Milne over at CBR for the heads up on this one. Very interesting read… It screams to me how retention is as important (if not moreso) than recruiting. Like that old blues song says, “Its cheaper to keep her.”
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Women in IT feel let down by the lack of support from their [...]
Things are tough in Japan
People are concerned about a recession here in the USA. I was wondering how our economic situation affected other countries and while I was resarching that, I came across this article on the Japan labor market from Forbes.com. Interesting reading…
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The recovery in Japan’s labor market is at a standstill as the latest economic data showed [...]




