Ahmed's Universe

JANUARY 11, 2011

'PARIS Lou Gerstner, IBM''s legendary CEO, famously claimed that "elephants can dance" when describing his amazing success at turning Big Blue from a hardware-cum-software company into a services group. This feat is, however, quite unique and cannot be easily replicated. In a recent Linkedin discussion of the HR Technology group, claims were made that traditional software vendors such as SAP or Oracle can turn their offering from on-premise systems (ERP) to web-based ones, also known by the acro

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Talent Culture

JANUARY 3, 2011

Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Monday, January 3rd, 2011 Career Tools to Check Out in 2011 This month’s Career Collective topic is trends, tools, and hiring practices for 2011. I love writing about career tools that help job seekers keep informed. Here are a few of my favorites. TweetMyJOBS Imagine having job leads delivered directly to your computer or smart phone just seconds after they are posted by employers.

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Insperity

JANUARY 31, 2011

You know you’re supposed to conduct exit interviews. And you may actually be doing them. But too often, the results are parked in a drawer never to be looked at again, says Nora Akins, who does HR consulting and training in Indiana and the Chicago area. Once the interviews are conducted, you need to analyze them to identify patterns that call for rectifying a situation.

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Ahmed's Universe

JANUARY 15, 2011

'PARIS In the late 1970''s, I was a teenager spending part of the summer in my mother''s hometown in Romania when the inhumanity of the Communist regime of the self-styled Danube of Human Thinking, Nicolae Ceausescu, hit me. The paucity and bad quality of goods in stores; the weird cat-and-mouse game we had to play in Bucharest when staying with a cousin so that the resident man from the Securitate (Ceausescu''s answer to the Gestapo) wouldn''t see us spending the night with her (yes, you''ve he

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Talent Culture

JANUARY 5, 2011

Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 Is Your Professional Brand as Strong as Starbucks? Starbucks just unveiled their new logo featuring their well-known green siren but with one dramatic change – the words “Starbucks Coffee&# have been dropped from the logo. At first I thought, “What the heck?

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Talent Culture

JANUARY 31, 2011

Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Monday, January 31st, 2011 Reflections on Smoking in the Workplace Last week I wrote a post about smoking at work and looked at the productivity of smokers versus non-smokers over the course of a work day. The results are inconclusive as to whether smokers actually take more breaks at work or if they are any less productive even if they do take more work breaks than non-smokers.

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Insperity

JANUARY 31, 2011

Business owners usually associate fraud with accounting. But did you ever think that something as simple as filling out extra hours on a timesheet could hit your bottom line pretty hard? Lying about hours worked or consultants charging for time they didn’t spend on projects can cost small businesses thousands of dollars. And it’s not just the employer that’s impacted.

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