Amy Chulik
Blog entries by Amy Chulik
When it Comes to their own Benefits, Many Employees are Missing the Boat
Nov 20, 2008
As it’s open enrollment season for U.S. businesses, millions of employees from Seattle to Baton Rouge are making important decisions about health care and benefits that will affect them and their families in 2009. However, surprisingly, millions of employees still aren’t participating in these decisions.
If your employees knew they were throwing money away, would they change their course? A newly released CareerBuilder.com survey reveals that nearly a quarter of workers (23 percent) do not take advantage of the new and potentially cost-saving measures being offered by their respective companies.
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- Categories Employee Engagement, Survey Results
Talking Technology and Innovation Breakthroughs with CareerBuilder.com CTO, Eric Presley
Nov 17, 2008
Eric Presley recently spent some time with CNET’s Dan Farber to discuss how innovation breakthroughs are helping users find jobs, both online and through mobile technologies. Dan and Eric also talked about CareerBuilder.com’s place in the rapidly evolving recruitment marketplace. Eric explained that job seekers essentially want a service to be able to read their resume and provide back relevant jobs - and discussed in detail how CareerBuilder.com has the technology to provide that service.
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- Categories Employee Attraction, Innovation, Social Media
How Many of Your Workers Plan to Vote in Tomorrow’s Election? CareerBuilder.com Survey Results
Nov 3, 2008
How many of your employees are voting in the presidential election tomorrow (or have already, thanks to early voting)? How many are voting for the first time?
This presidential race has been the most exciting in my life thus far, and some are saying it very well may be the most important election of many of our lifetimes. So amid the scrambling to register or re-register, find your polling location, obsess over political news sites, and stock up on your favorite Obama/Biden monogrammed blanket or McCain/Palin dish set, have you taken notice of how many people in your own office are voting in the 2008 election?
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- Categories Employee Engagement, Survey Results
No, Really, Your Excuse is Totally Believable! (Cough, Cough) - 2008’s Most Unusual Excuses for Missing Work
Oct 22, 2008
Oh, come on - don’t get your I-love-staying-home-to-watch-Seinfeld-reruns-on-my-couch pajamas in a bunch. If you’ve called into work before when you’ve been feeling perfectly healthy, you’re in solid company with the 33 percent of workers who have done so this year, according to a newly released CareerBuilder.com survey on absenteeism. And if you haven’t fibbed (e.g., faked a cold while eating a pint of Chubby Hubby and alphabetizing your DVD collection), chances are one of your subordinates has.
Here are the highlights of the Most Unusual Excuses for Missing Work This Year:
- Thanksgiving karma | Employee hit a turkey (yes, a turkey) while riding a bike.
Author’s Note: Animals - turkeys in particular - seem to be a hot topic this year. See our “Unusual Jobs” survey results for more on this phenomenon. - Near-death experiences | Employee said he had a heart attack that morning, but that he was “all better now.”
- Just can’t find a thing to wear | Employee’s wife burned all his clothes and he had nothing to wear to work.
- They don’t have rifles, so… | Employee got kicked by a deer
- Paging Dionne Warwick | Employee’s psychic told her to stay home.
- Lightweight | Employee’s toe was injured when a soda can fell out of the refrigerator.
- Driving the dog to drink | Employee’s dog was stressed out after a family reunion
- Kissed and unfortunately told | Employee contracted mono after kissing a mailroom intern at the company’s holiday party - and suggested the company post some sort of notice to warn others who may have kissed him.
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- Categories Employee Retention, Survey Results
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- Categories Employee Attraction, Employer Advice, Events
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Well, I suppose that’s considerate, anyway. Grab your own pint of Ben and Jerry’s and read the full list of unusual excuses here.
So what are you doing for National Disability Employment Awareness Month?
Oct 17, 2008
What’s that? You’re wondering what in the heck I’m talking about? Okay, let me back up. It’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month! Congress started the first recognition week back in October 1945, in an effort to educate the public about employment-related disability issues, but the initiative has seen a lot of changes since the ‘40s - in name and in practice. Click here for a bit more history.
We’re halfway through the annual month of recognition, and people everywhere have been participating - at places like the “Access Anderson” event in Anderson County, SC to a disability job fair in Maricopa County, AZ. And there are still plenty of opportunities to get involved in one way or another. If nothing else, becoming aware of the issues and the initiatives your company is interested in is a great way to get ahead of the curve for next year’s planning.
Was Craig in HR Formerly Liberace’s Bartender? The Most Unusual Job Titles of 2008
Oct 7, 2008
Is quiet Joe, who does immaculate work but never talks much to anyone, a former circus fire eater? Or are your employees more true to form, such as Sarah in marketing who stashes chocolate bars in her desk - and, it turns out, actually used to be a chocolate bar quality tester?
CareerBuilder recently asked more than 8,700 workers about the most unusual job they have had on our “Most Unusual Jobs” survey - and the results make up a mix of dangerous, fun, tedious, creative, and even tasty career choices.
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