H&R Block Hires The Fallon Group
The Fallon Group has been brought on as the agency of record for H&R Block Inc.’s $155 million advertising account, the Kansas City Business Journal…
Yearly Archives: 2010
Mass Layoffs Headed To Fort McCoy, Wisconsin
The Bering Straits AKI company based in Fort McCoy, Wisconsin has released a statement, announcing that it is planning a series of layoffs. 70 employees…
Mass Layoffs To Hit Ashland Kentucky’s Largest Employer
Ashland, Kentucky’s biggest employer, King’s Daughters Medical Center, which employs around 4,400 employees, announced on Tuesday that mass layoffs would occur and that a significant…
Austin Set To Increase Wages, Hire 113 Employees in 2011
The City of Austin released its proposal for a budget for the fiscal year of 2011. One detail regarding the budget proposal will come as…
San Jose Set To Lose 50 Firefighters; 4 Engines
San Jose is preparing to layoff 50 firefighters sometime this week. The cuts come as a result of budget cuts as well as a contract…
Facing Atypical Questions in a Job Interview
Atypical questions are in fact quite common in job interviews and play a major role in deciding upon the candidate. So, what are atypical questions? Questions that are not directly related to your qualifications or field of work and are meant rather to probe your qualities and attributes are atypical questions.
Culture Your Confidence to Achieve What You Want
Like every other skill, quality, or attribute, self-confidence too improves under certain conditions and fades away in others. Being jobless, or being continually rejected in interviews, can severely dampen one's spirit and hurt his or her confidence.
The Use of Testimonials and Endorsements in Your Job Search
When I was in my final year of high school, I remember that in English class one day the teacher handed me back a paper I had written and it had a B+ on it. While there were a lot of classes that I would have been incredibly happy if I received this grade in, English was not one of them. In fact, with the exception of a horrible play I had written for one English class, I had not received a grade of less than an A- in any English class for years. I decided that I needed to meet with the English teacher and go over this. After all, I figured that something must be seriously wrong.
Boeing Announces Additional Layoffs in St. Louis
Pentagon budget cuts is leading The Boeing Co. to make additional layoffs at its defense unit in St. Louis. The St. Louis Business Journal reports…
Aggregate Knowledge Names V.P of Engineering
Aggregate Knowledge, the sole pure-play data management and ad optimization platform (DMP) company, announced Steve Linde as its new vice president of engineering. Linde was…