{"id":2376,"date":"2010-07-13T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/07\/pink-slip-parties-2\/"},"modified":"2010-07-13T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T18:52:09","slug":"pink-slip-parties-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/07\/pink-slip-parties-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Slip Parties?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received my share of pink slips in my career so this title frightened me when I first saw it in the Twin Cities Business Magazine<\/a>.\u00a0 However, this strikes me as rather clever:<\/p>\n

The party, akin to speed dating for the unemployed\u2026<\/p>\n
The idea is to provide an opportunity for job seekers to mingle with local recruiters in a more informal setting than a traditional board room. Job seekers should dress to impress, bring copies of their resume, and be ready to network, Virgin Mobile and JobsDirectUSA said.<\/p>\n
The companies call the party \u201cthe most fun and laid-back job interview most who attend will ever experience.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I received my share of pink slips in my career so this title frightened me when I first saw it in the Twin Cities Business Magazine.\u00a0 However, this strikes me as rather clever: The party, akin to speed dating for the unemployed\u2026 The idea is to provide an opportunity for job seekers to mingle with local recruiters in a more informal setting than a traditional board room. Job seekers should dress to impress, bring copies of their resume, and be ready to network, Virgin Mobile and JobsDirectUSA said. The companies call the party \u201cthe most fun and laid-back job interview most who attend will ever experience.\u201d<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[1611,1612,1607,1279,1608,1609,1610,1564],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-Ck","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}