Category: Hire & Higher
Summary: Placing importance on building a culture centered on the growth of people can enable any organization to truly thrive. While it seems like a simple message, it can be difficult to bring this concept to life. There are three main areas where this commitment to people can be a differentiator when it comes to attracting and retaining talent.
The struggling satirical paper was once firebombed, but it continued to amuse and horrify, taking pride in offending one and all.
Category: Career Oxygen
Summary: Interview preparation is important, but it might be how you handle yourself after the interview that makes the biggest difference.
That’s right. There are a number of post-interview dos and don’ts that could mean the difference between landing a job and being overlooked.
When it comes to interview success, here are just a few things to do — and not to do — after the interview.
Stéphane Charbonnier, editor of the satirical weekly who was killed in an attack on the newspaper’s offices Wednesday, was instrumental in a series of defiant campaigns.
Category: Up Your Game
Summary: In-depth content (a.k.a bylined columns) provides marketers greater value in terms of thought leadership development and lead generation than does routine blog posting. Championing in-depth content as a marketing tool may appear to fly in the face of web usability guidelines — short, sweet, and simple — but elite expert blogs are the exception to the rule. Rather than striving to impress a vast audience, one should focus on the 10% that want, need, and deserve your offering.
Instead of routing their attacks through decoy servers, the hackers sent them directly from web addresses in North Korea, the F.B.I. said. But some skeptics still wanted to see the agency’s evidence.
Category: Career Oxygen
Summary: No matter the justification, there are millions of different reasons and circumstances as to why people end up having “bits and pieces” of jobs on their résumé. But what ends up happening is that these brief stings end up being seen as potential liabilities or else scream “job hopper” to potential employers. You need to be smart about how you handle these and help solidify your background into something an employer can digest. Here are some approaches you might want to consider in order to take the sting out of short-term jobs.
“The Wizard of Watts,” an animated musical coming to Adult Swim on Saturday, takes on greater weight as a national debate over race and overzealous policing is underway.
Category: Up Your Game
Summary: I’m good at a lot of things, but I’m not expert at any. And that probably sounds like a bad thing in today’s day and age. More and more, the business world seems to be ruled by expertise. Subject-matter experts. Vertical specialists. Domain authorities. Companies wage wars for sought-after technical mavens and so-called gurus. To advance in one’s career these days, one should naturally specialize. The days of the generalist are over, right?
Hamyd Mourad, 18, suspected in an assault on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, walked into a police station northeast of Paris and gave himself up. The other suspects are two brothers, Said and Chérif Kouachi.
Category: Career Oxygen
Summary: In today’s economy, job hunters often get screened out for reasons unrelated to their ability to handle the position they apply for. It can happen both before you get an interview and even after you get one — if you are fortunate to secure a meeting with the hiring authority.
Muve, a subscription service for prepaid mobile phones, will be discontinued in February and customers will be moved to Deezer, the company said.
Category: Career Oxygen
Summary: It’s all well and good to get on really well with your colleagues and superiors — in fact, it is very conducive to creating a pleasant work environment — but it is more important that they respect your abilities as a professional. After all, would you rather have a colleague who you could have a great time with but was unreliable, or one that was competent and could be trusted to get things done?
According to those who knew them and followed their work, the four cartoonists who were killed Wednesday represented a radical, crude and vital strain of French culture.
Category: View from the Cheap Seats
Summary: Is the endless production of little projects enough to keep people interested in advertising as a career?
The executive editor changed his mind twice before deciding the cartoons did not meet Times standards
Even before the attack on Charlie Hebdo, a futuristic novel and a nostalgic essay had set off intense debate.
Category: Up Your Game
Summary: Experiential marketing initiatives can be designed by B2C or B2B brands to meet a variety of business objectives. Generating awareness (or sales, or leads), recruiting new talent, engaging with customers, launching a product or company, showing appreciation to shareholders or staff, creating content for social media, and/or getting press coverage are just some of the successful outcomes physical brand experiences can produce for your organization.
Michael Bloomberg, who recently returned to running the company, said in a note to staff that the departure of Laurie Hays, a senior executive editor, was amicable.
Category: Hire & Higher
Summary: Due to the many advantages of hiring telecommuters, more and more industries are jumping on the telecommuting bandwagon.
Telework Research Network found that 30 million Americans work from home at least one day per week and that number is expected to increase more than 60 percent over the next few years.
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