Archive for September, 2007

Is the Resume Telling All?

Back to Basics. Write an Effective Résumé. Your résumé is your calling card and first impression to a potential employer. You have less than 10 seconds to grab a reader’s attention. Every line a reader see’s when your résumé is viewed on a screen will influence the decision to call you. You may want to [...]

Check Out Your Candidate–Life is Full of Surprises

Corra always takes note when our clients are surprised that their perfectly nice candidate has a criminal record or didn’t graduate from college, after all. Sometimes that candidate didn’t attend that school at all, not even for a few semesters. Life is full of surprises. By running pre-employment background checks on your job candidates, you [...]

When Your Executives Split en Masse

Yahoo Execs Dropping Like Bombs Written on Author by Editor | Yahoo has been in a constant state of reorganization lately with the entrance of Jerry Yang and the still not filled exit of CTO Farzad Nazem as well as other positions being shuffled around. Being thrown into the mix is position of CFO for [...]

When the Smart People Can’t Do Business

Reverse Brain-Drain? From: Inc.com A lack of work visas for skilled immigrants could result in a reverse brain-drain and a subsequent decline in U.S. competitiveness, a new study shows. As a result of a growing backlog of visas, roughly one in five new legal immigrants and one in three employment-based legal immigrants are planning to [...]