Archive for the ‘Business’ Category

Dinosaurs Still Live… in Sales

I was a tad shocked by something I read the other day relating to current salespeople and their clients. The article in question, Consider Retooling Your Sales Team by “eyes on sales” discusses sales methods and how to spot the salespeople on your team who are leftover from the Jurassic age. This article quotes research [...]

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1 Reason Why Your Company Should be Blogging

Do you believe a blog is important for your company? If you said no it wouldn’t be a big surprise. Chances are most businesses wouldn’t think so. For example, according to research by Socialtext released in December of 2009 only 15.8% of the Fortune 500 companies are blogging. If you’re a Fortune 500 company then [...]

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Technology-less Personal-less Job Recruitment

(Question 1) Does technology kill the creativity of recruiters? (Question 2) Are head hunting human resourcers becoming lazy due to the Internet? (Question 3) Is the Internet and technology destroying common courtesy? (Bonus Question) Can we stop our world’s downward de-humanizing spiral encouraged by the Internet and technology? Is there any hope? As finding an [...]

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Technical Skill Semantics.

This entry is going to be a bit rough on me. As someone who dislikes technobabble with excessive terminology and classification this entry is going against my grain. You see, I’ve been looking for some casual contract type of work and find myself a bit uncertain as to how to rate or grade my skills. [...]

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