Reducing Payroll Costs Closer to Home
I have been slowly following a series of cost reductions that seem to touch a lot of people I know (yes myself included). We have all heard the stories on the news about automotive workers, home builders, and financial industry types losing jobs and not having anywhere to go. These seem so distant though (despite my brother-in-law being laid off from GM and my sister-in-law, his wife, being laid off from Expedia). Yeah there are some home builders here putting people out of work, there was WaMu, there is Russell. We don’t have much in the way of auto workers around here though. We’ve got a fair amount of airplane and boat makers instead that seem to be less impacted. We clearly aren’t as bad off as other areas hit harder by the declines in … Read entire article »
Filed under: career, Entrepreneurship, Microsoft, Profit, Seattle
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!!
Wow, what a week for career moves!! I’m sure no one noticed the comment on one of my really old posts, but Kevin Sheets at Qualis healthcare posted an Exchange opening in the comments. He’s not sure about using my new job board that focuses on Technology Infrastructure jobs (including, you guessed it Exchange & Storage jobs), perhaps the niche job boards are a little over rated, but they only take a couple minutes to setup and even less time to peruse for a new job!! (Btw, you can post a job) Of course that’s not the only job related news I have…. EMC is following the herd and putting on a hiring event in Second Life!! I’m not sure if anyone is still in Second Life, but if they are EMC is … Read entire article »
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Professional Development
I rarely post about this sort of thing…. mostly because I’m too busy doing “keeping my blog focused” – yeah right – Really it’s because I don’t have anything insightful to say. I have had lots of success but haven’t spent a lot of time turning that around into how I can help other people be more successful. One blogger I read does though!! J.D. Meier is an MS blogger and posts on a variety of topics… including some posts on how to improve yourself, your person effectiveness, and your career. A post from the weekend has a great list of questions that you should ask yourself on a semi-regular basis (I would say every 6 months)… For the full write up go check out J.D.’s blog Improvement Frame Area Prompts Thinking / Feeling Do you … Read entire article »
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