It’s the kind of story that those who use Facebook and Twitter don’t like to hear. Last week, CNN Mideast Affairs editor Octavia Nasr lost her post after tweeting her respect for a militant cleric.
In a statement, Ms. Nasr said that she’d exercised poor judgment as a representative of CNN when she tweeted that Ayatollah [...]
Some disheartening, yet not surprising, news from a recently released report by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.:
Tech sector employers announced 174,629 job cuts in 2009, the highest total since 2005.
The total tech cuts comprised 13.2% of the 1.3 millions jobs lost across all industries in 2009.
Most of the tech cuts happened [...]
The resume was impressive. The formatting was impeccable, the content was excellent, and he did a great job of focusing on accomplishments instead of job duties. If I were an employer, I would have been impressed.
Then I looked at his cover letter and imagined the employer tossing that perfect resume into the trash bin.
Many people [...]
This holiday season’s biggest entertainment blockbuster likely will be a sequel to a popular franchise, with jarring depictions of war and an intricate story of good versus evil. It could easily rake in more than last year’s record $155 million opening weekend for “The Dark Knight.”
But this blockbuster is not a movie.
It is “Call of [...]
To put it mildly, office morale is not real great right now. After all the layoffs that have taken place in the last year, people are feeling overworked, held back, and fearful that the axe could fall on them next. It’s not surprising a lot of people are mulling some kind of move, if not [...]
