Category: Events
Making Your Company a Best Place to Work
Oct 27, 2008
I recently attended the Pittsburgh Business Times Best Places to Work in Western Pennsylvania event. If you haven’t been to Pittsburgh in some time, if at all, I highly urge you to go. The city and the scenery are great – it is an accessible city nestled in rolling hills of low lying fog at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. I was there however not as a professional travel guide (although I can recommend restaurants and places to stay) but to celebrate some of the best places to work in the area.
The luncheon was attended by approximately 500 attendees – all finalists in the overall Best Places to Work contest. That list was then narrowed down to three finalists in a small business, medium business and large business category. And then the Pittsburgh Business Times crowned one area company as the overall champion. I was so impressed with the energy of the finalists and their dedication not only to their businesses but to their employees.
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The Smartest Investment You’ll Make in This Economy
Oct 21, 2008
from OPEN Forum:
The smartest investment you’ll make in this economy is your investment in your employees. Companies that plan to survive, even thrive, in this economy should increase their investments in their employees. That’s right. Companies should invest more in their employees during this challenging economic period.
Forget those CDOs (collateralized debt obligations) or CDSs (collateralized debt swaps) and Wall Street banks hoping for a comeback or those secret Santa Claus-like portfolios of sub-prime home loans you’ve heard are all the rage. Forget about green energy technologies like wind or solar or geothermal. The smartest investment you’ll make in this or any economy is your investments in your employees.
Now’s the time to not only maintain your current investment program of salary and benefits (You do offer benefits, don’t you?), but find ways to increase that investment. Here’s why: Employees are your company’s number one asset. Oh sure, we’ve all heard that cliche bandied about. Peter Drucker, the legendary management expert, coined that phrase decades ago. It stuck. It stuck because it’s true.
Who makes your company’s products and services? Who talks to your customers? Whose efforts make them love your company and tolerate your mistakes to their credit cards and bank accounts that ruin their day and waste their time? And, who comes up with the systemic solutions to those problems?
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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.
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The People’s Voice: We’re Listening To You
Sep 15, 2008
What makes this nation unique is the opportunity for an uncensored voice of the people, for opinions to be shared, for questions to be asked. It is what makes an election year always interesting, and inspires a posting such as this to reach out for public opinion (don’t jump ahead just yet, but make sure you exercise your 1st Amendment rights in the comments feature below).
In that political vein, with the earth-shattering intriguing political convention season behind us, and candidates racing towards what’s guaranteed to be a highly-dramatic November 4th Election Day, several things are certain: Read the rest
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CareerBuilder.com Customers ROCK!
Jul 23, 2008
We love our customers for oh so many reasons, one being that they aren’t afraid to have fun. Don’t believe us? Check out the following video clips of CB customers rocking out at our karaoke booth during SHRM 2008 in Chicago.
Images from CareerBuilder’s 2008 SHRM Experience
Jun 27, 2008
We had such a great time meeting, greeting, and interacting with the attendees and fellow exhibitors of SHRM’s 2008 Annual Conference - and we have the pictures to prove it! Here are a few of our favorites…
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