We are awash in a sea of change in the sourcing options available to hiring companies. Yahoo! news reports in Monster signs up more newspapers that Monster.com has moved into more locally-owned community newspapers. Community Newspaper Holdings has 93 daily newspapers and is based in Birmingham, Ala. Under the deal announced Monday, each of the 80 new sites cobranded sites with Monster will be tied to a daily newspaper from Community Newspaper Holdings. It appears that Monster, CareerBuilder (even though they are owned by 3 newspapers) and HotJobs are attempting to displace the long-standing newspaper employment classifieds. Whether this will be sustainable in the long run is difficult to predict. I am… Read More
Continue ReadingThe Boss Doesn’t Believe You
Funny article here from Inc.com about a CareerBuilder.com survey – Survey: Late Employees Lie. As many as one in four employees admit to making up fake excuses for arriving late to work, a new study reveals. Amazing that they invested the resources in running a survey on this topic. I always wonder about surveys regarding lies – maybe the respondents are lying in the survey? At any rate, a good closing line from the article: While hiring managers said they typically don’t question an employee’s excuse for being late, 27 percent said they usually don’t believe them when they do.
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