August 22nd, 2012

Thinking about using a potential employer’s job offer to get your current company to counter and pay you more money?
No No No, stop right there.
Using another job offer as a bargaining chip may be tempting, but too often, it ends badly. If you want a raise, then negotiate it on your own merits–or prepare to move on.
Tags: counteroffers, employee, employers, Facebook, hiring, interview, Jobs, recruitment
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July 24th, 2012

The hiring retention success rate is disheartening with some studies reporting a rate lower than 50%. Through more than 50 years of combined experience 50+ in helping organizations improve their business performance, and there are three reasons why most companies and organizations fail to hire and retain top talent.
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Tags: Hiring Retention, HR Managers, Interviews, IT, Jobs, recruitment, Resumes
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June 20th, 2012

We may never know why we didn’t get chosen for a job interview, but we know about the recruiters….
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Tags: interview, IT, Jobs, Recruiter, resume, Scanning
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June 12th, 2012

Social CRM – Social media response – “Community changes everything”
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Tags: Behavior, Communities, CRM, IT, Social Media
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June 8th, 2012

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Search engines do not automatically recognize your site.
They must first “index” your site, which involves finding it and recording it in their archive. SEO techniques are aimed at letting search engines “know” your twebsite is out there and wha your site is “about”.
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Tags: google, HTML, IT, Search Engine, SEO, Tokyo Executive
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May 29th, 2012

Managers agree that retaining your best employees ensures customer satisfaction, product sales, satisfied coworkers and reporting staff, effective succession planning and deeply imbedded organizational knowledge aneid learning. If managers can cite these facts so well, why do they behave in ways that so frequently encourage great employees to quit their jobs?
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Tags: employee, interview, IT, Jobs, recruitment, Retainment
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May 22nd, 2012

It is not about what you tell the interviewer. It’s about what you ask them.
In order to prove that you’ll be an asset to the company, you need to ask the right questions.
Without these questions, you’re missing a key part of your preparation — the part that may win you the job!
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Tags: Career, Employment, interview, Interview Questions, Interviewing, Job Interview, Strategy
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April 17th, 2012

We may never know why we didn’t get chosen for a job interview, but we know about the recruiters….
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Tags: interview, IT, job, Recruiters, resume, SCAN
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March 31st, 2012
Resume, references, & Facebook account passwords
Another reason to think twice before posting something online – it could cost you your job or the prospect of getting a new job. Employers have long been checking into candidates lives online on sites like Myspace and Facebook but some are starting to go beyond that. some companies are not just glancing at a person’s social networking profiles and instead asking to log in as the user to have a look around. Sources say employers are increasingly asking candidates to give up their social media account passwords during interviews Read the rest of this entry »
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March 30th, 2012

A milestone for browser wars
- Internet Explorer has been top browser since 1999
- Chrome use peaks weekends when users are home and can use their browser of choice
- Chrome was first for just one day
Google made history and finally achieved what no other browser has been able to do in the past 13 years – if only for a day. Chrome surpassed IE for the first time in market share. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Browser wars, chrome, Internet Explorer
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