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INFORMATION OVERLOAD
Taking a Break From E-mail
By Charlotte Huff
One company’s experiment with “E-mail Free Fridays” offers some lessons in how to manage the flood of often unnecessary messages.
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BIG REVENUE JUMP
CollegeRecruiter.com Makes Inc. 5,000 List
August 22, 2008 3:45 PM PT
The online job board has ‘found new ways to advertise its site to job seekers by creating several collegerecruiter.com Facebook applications and even a YouTube channel with more than 350 career-related videos,’ the business publication says.
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UNTAPPED RESOURCE
Labor Department Web Site Encourages Hiring of Wounded Veterans
August 20, 2008 2:48 PM PT
The agency collaborates with the departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services and Education as well as the Social Security Administration on the site, which was set up at a cost of $300,000 to $500,000.
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Whose bright idea was it to use Facebook or MySpace to get information about job candidates? Certainly not any employer/defendant who has sat with me at counsel table in a case involving hiring discrimination.
However much employers want to provide access to their technology systems for business convenience or necessity, they also have legitimate interests in preventing their misuse. Employers will also have to do some education with employees about what happens when personal devices are used to access company systems. Employees may mistakenly believe that by using their own devices, they have bought themselves a measure of privacy and are beyond the reach of their employer.
Whose bright idea was it to use Facebook or MySpace to get information about job candidates? Certainly not any employer/defendant who has sat with me at counsel table in a case involving hiring discrimination.
Several recent analyses have highlighted the costs of information overload and its close cousin—interruptions.
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The latest talent management products—modeled on organizational charts and baseball-card-style representations of employees—certainly have an appealing look, but skeptics dismiss the software as a fad that does little to boost effectiveness.
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