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Brett Stevens — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:25:20 +0000

MN Headhunter: What Is A Career Portfolio?

Top Recruiting Blogs aggregator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:36:27 +0000

The following post is courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap:

A career portfolio provides prospective employers with a tangible sample of accomplishments acquired across an individual's employment life. Presenting a well prepared portfolio during an interview enhances a job candidate's professionalism, and provides evidence of stated achievements.

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What Is A Career Portfolio?

MN Headhunter — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:36:27 +0000

The following post is courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap: A career portfolio provides prospective employers with a tangible sample of accomplishments acquired across an individual's employment life. Presenting a well prepared portfolio during an interview enhances a job candidate's professionalism,...

Marenated: How we consume should be changing how we advertise. Is it?

Top Recruiting Blogs aggregator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:48:45 +0000

This is going to be a ramble, I can already tell but please stay with me:

Research Goddess: Yes – I still research.

Top Recruiting Blogs aggregator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:00:45 +0000

#boulderfire in real-time

eric shannon — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:19:36 +0000

Yesterday, a wildfire started outside Boulder a couple miles due west from my home. In the morning we saw wisps of smoke coming over the ridge behind our house and expected to see flames. there was no information on the TV or radio so we went to twitter and discovered the fire was not really in our backyard as we feared.

I watched on twitter as a few other curious folks asked about the smoke. The twitter traffic started to build and information began to flow in as the sky darkened. I stumbled onto a live feed for the Boulder County Sheriff and fire communications and tuned in. I started tweeting what I heard but quickly noticed 'fishnette' doing the same -- but she did it much better than I, so I quit.

Listening to the live feed, I could hear that the fire was growing rapidly and clearly out of control. here's a sample of what I was hearing as translated by fishnette (just a couple minutes worth):

scanner: bad stuff on Sunshine canyon, sounds like it's crossed to the north side of the road, lots of explosions. #Boulderfire
scanner: There are still people refusing to evacuate. hoping not to get the call here. #Boulderfire

scanner: "Make sure to tell the people who are refusing this is the last contact they'll get from us." #Boulderfire

scanner: reports of explosions in Mountain Meadow area. this is where propane tanks are a bad deal. #Boulderfire

scanner: now gonna go door to door in Poorman. now have call of someone stuck in Emmerson Gulch home #Boulderfire

scanner: "The danger is extreme. Limit your exposure as far as getting caught up there. Leave yourself an out." re Bo Heights. #Boulderfire

Trying to understand where the fire was was difficult but important to me because my parents home is (or was?) on Sugarloaf Mountain. So, I was simultaneously listening to the live feed, reading fishnette and searching Google maps for the road names referenced by the firefighters.

Neither TV nor FM radio can compete at all with hearing firefighters in real-time scrambling to organize themselves, staging in one area, retreating, restaging in another, calling for resources. It's probably the closest thing to warfare I'll ever witness.

I say thanks to everyone involved in fighting the fire. The calm professionalism I heard and continue to hear is awe-inspiring. Thanks for fighting this life-and-death battle for us. My deepest condolences for the loss of your homes.

Online resources for following the fire:

Am hoping we won't have to evacuate today. Can hear the helicopters and aircraft overhead. Godspeed!

How to Automatically Build Boolean OR Strings

Boolean Black Belt — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:00:08 +0000

Writing Boolean search strings is typically a quick and simple affair, as most search engines and databases won’t let you construct anything longer than a few hundred characters. However, if you’re not constrained to a fixed limit on search terms (such as Google’s 32 words) or characters, it’s no longer a simple matter of “this OR [...]

Book an Appointment with me now!

CloudRecruiting.net — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:50:42 +0000

Book an Appointment with me now! You might have noticed that I have a new button on the right side of the screen that says “Availability”. Check it out; you can schedule an appointment with me now to discuss how I can help you and your business. Thanks to a new service called Setster, visitors may [...]

The Hire Sense: News From The Twilight Zone

Top Recruiting Blogs aggregator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:59:00 +0000

From CNNMoney.com:

A jobless recovery? Hardly.

By historical standards, the labor market is recovering nicely — job growth has started earlier than in past recessions.

I guess I was unaware of how good it is out there. I think this article comes with a large serving of Kool-Aid also.

A real life community case study – hashtag underscore #socreccamp

Peter Gold — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:33:57 +0000

From humble beginnings, lots of tweets and a last minute girly weekend gatecrash #socreccamp was upon us.The online community were coming together to as one. But how would they manage to communicate without a signal? Would they all fit into one tent? Would Devon survive such a technophone incoming? Would anyone die? As Chief Unorganiser of #socrecamp I need to share my experience amongst the rest of the world of the secret weekend. What started off as a self-invite (by me) to the girls weekend in Exeter of @sarknight @lisascales @wendyjacob and @saraheadworthended up as a real surf adventure of...