{"id":1477,"date":"2008-03-20T14:05:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T19:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/jobs-in-paradise\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T14:03:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T19:03:41","slug":"jobs-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/jobs-in-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs In Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABCnews.com offers a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/BusinessTravel\/Story?id=4451967&amp;page=2\">completely tempting story<\/a> to those of us stuck up here in the frozen tundra.\u00a0 With a snowstorm heading our way this evening, I am stuck on this thought:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We also have a &#8216;chief of village,&#8217; which is sort of a cross between a cruise director and general manager,&#8221; Moeller said. &#8220;This is the most aspired-to position for many of our [employees]. It is like being queen or king of the roost.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a recruiting opportunity here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most of these companies that cater to an international client\u00e8 have structured recruitment programs to draw worldwide talent. Bases are set up on multiple continents to sell the idea of say, careers in the Caribbean, and anywhere else people go to escape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People don&#8217;t really go to Minnesota &#8220;to escape&#8221; so I doubt there is much future here for us.\u00a0 Back to waiting on the snowstorm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABCnews.com offers a completely tempting story to those of us stuck up here in the frozen tundra.\u00a0 With a snowstorm heading our way this evening, I am stuck on this thought: &#8220;We also have a &#8216;chief of village,&#8217; which is sort of a cross between a cruise director and general manager,&#8221; Moeller said. &#8220;This is the most aspired-to position for many of our [employees]. It is like being queen or king of the roost.&#8221; There is a recruiting opportunity here: Most of these companies that cater to an international client\u00e8 have structured recruitment programs to draw worldwide talent. Bases are set up on multiple continents to sell the idea of&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/jobs-in-paradise\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[1748,168],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-trends","tag-hiring","tag-recruiting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-nP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1507,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/recessions-are-tactical-problems-recruiting-is-strategic\/","url_meta":{"origin":1477,"position":0},"title":"Recessions Are Tactical Problems, Recruiting Is Strategic","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Steven Rothberg over at CollegeRecruiter.com provides a money quote in his post Why Today's College Students Need Not Fear Exploding Offers.\u00a0 Obviously, Steven's market is geared towards college students, but this paragraph is applicable to all businesses when it comes to hiring (emphasis mine): The recession of 2001-03 was worse\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":360,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/recruiting-challenges-of-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":1477,"position":1},"title":"Recruiting Challenges of 2006","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"October 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"As I have said before, I am a sucker for statistics so I was drawn in to this comparison of 2005 to 2006 recruiting challenges companies are facing in Workforce Management's recent newsletter. 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