Archive for June, 2006

Outsourcing Your Human Resources

Fed up with HR? Let someone else handle it. Professional employer organizations let you hand off the headaches and focus instead on your business. From: Inc. Magazine, May 2006 | By: Max Chafkin Peter McCann’s HR troubles started in 2001, when a former employee filed a complaint alleging that Ideal Images, McCann’s Omaha-based screen printing [...]

Summer Jobs: Troubling News for the Teenage Rite of Passage

We saw this article on the WLOX TV website for Biloxi, Mississippi. The article orginated from the Christian Science Monitor and deals with that old perennial teenage summer employment. Special from CSMonitor.com Summer Job Forecast: Cloudy By Matt Bradley | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Jasmine Blocker has reached an impasse in her job [...]

Speed Dating in Kiwi Land

According to the PR people at Colgate Palmolive, speed dating is all the rage in New Zealand. We found this article in Scoop Independent News. Dating frenzy hits New Zealand Dating frenzy hits New Zealand Wednesday, 14 June 2006, 10:33 am Press Release: Colgate News release June 14, 2006Dating frenzy hits New Zealand It’s a [...]

Speed Dating: Take a Lesson from Citizen Kane

Can You Really Make Out In Ninety Seconds? Or Is It Just One More Way of Killing Time? “A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn’t think he’d remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was [...]