1. It’s so much cooler than ink on paper.
2. It’s multimedia.
3. The format engenders creativity.
4. Young people don’t write; they text. And design. And code. And video.
5. More jobs in this creativity-driven economy will call for the kinds of skills best showcased interactively.
6. Wha?
7. Just shut up and watch this YouTube …
I’m telling you, this vidumé thing (thanks again, Gerry) is catching on. I just got this notice:
Workers across the country are competing to live out a dream job for a day at Disneyland and America votes on who makes the cut.
From March 6 to March 30th, the public can go to http://www.careerbuilder.com/disneydreamjobs and vote for their
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Ph.D.s get a bad rap. Whenever the economy’s raging and Wall Street/Silicon Valley/stay-at-home blogger types are dragging in buckets of cash, those eternal students with their carefully collected knowledge of 15th century French love poetry get slathered with the sniggers.
Eternal students (and your parents), rejoice. Your time has …
Whoa. I nearly missed this AP headline from a few days ago:
“Man Sues IBM Over Adult Chat Room Firing“
In sum,
A man who was fired by IBM for visiting an adult chat room at work is suing the company for $5 million, claiming he is an Internet addict who deserves treatment and sympathy rather than dismissal.
James Pacenza, 58, of
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The other day I attended a luncheon for Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers nominees, which is just a way for me to mention I, ahem, was one in 2006 for my first book–though not, tragically, a finalist. At the lunch I met a lovely fellow who runs a Nebraska furniture business owned by Berkshire Hathaway (his partner was a fellow …
You know those guys who stand outside the office building for a smoke? How come they never wear coats?
So it was 40-degreeish here in New York City today, drifts of snow still lining the sidewalks, and the usual clutch of office workers stood outside my midtown Manhattan building puffing away. I just don’t understand this. Does nicotine …
Reader Duri writes in with a compelling (and detailed) comment to an earlier posting about productivity during March Madness. Duri, you’re right: I did find your description of your working conditions “utopic.” But toward the end you make a few key points (bolds mine)–that not only did you value your workers for the quality of the work …
In a story about video résumés I wrote in this week’s TIME (paper version), I mentioned online job board Vault.com’s video res contest. It appears they’ve picked a winner. Or five. (Watch them here.)
When I talked to Vault.com CEO Mark Oldman (“spelled like old man,” he says, the card), he had some clear ideas about how the video …
…or vidumé, as my pal Gerry would coin it. (I would have thought of that, if I were good with words.) During my research for this article on the rise of vidumés (okay, Ger, it’s mine now), I came across some fiery blog postings on the subject. Mostly they argued against ’em. Here’s one on MagicPotofJobs, a blog written by Tiffany …
I interview well. On paper I may not look like your tippy-top candidate, what with my unpronounceable name and gutter grades and long list of short jobs. But get me in the room with you, and (in most cases) I’ll have you from hello.
That’s why a video résumé is for me. Or so I thought.
As research for this article I just wrote on the …
My company has this program that pays 50% of our gym memberships. Sometimes I think it’s the only reason I joined–because I’m cheap and I can’t resist a bargain. Also because my really fit friend at the office goes, and I delusionally thought I too could someday have a waist.
We’re starting to hear a lot about corporate wellness …
Happy new year. It’s the start of the Chinese new year, or, as they say, the year of the pig (we Japanese prefer to call it the year of the boar). I consulted a few Chinese astrology web sites to see what the year held for us on the workplace front. Here’s one forecast:
A year of goodwill to all. An excellent climate for business, and
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