Viral Marketing – Can it Effect Your Employment Brand?

A Three Part Series – The good, the bad and the ugly

Part 1 – The “Good” The impact of a good product experience

Part 2 – The “Bad” The impact of Bad work Environments

Part 3 – The “Ugly” The impact of Lay-off’s, Restructures or Downsizing

Absolutely! Viral marketing refers to marketing techniques that use preexisting social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes. It can be word-of-mouth delivered…

ust be polite to them at all times. Read further to get more information related to the importance of being polite.

The importance of being polite can be best understood by putting yourself in others place. Assume you are hiring a manager for a retail store. If you meet two applicants, one who responds with respect and the other is a bit too casual for your liking, who will you hire? Obviously you would choose the one who is polite. It’s well known that employers choose the polite ones.…

Employment Branding: What is it? Why do we need it?

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In a recent study, 150 senior HR managers were questioned on what they perceived to be their biggest challenges going into 2008. Key findings: #1 Finding, Attracting and Hiring, #2 Retention, #3 Measurement and #4 Legal compliance.

In 2008 there will be an estimated 450 million job seekers worldwide using the Internet… There will be an estimated 50 million employers worldwide competing for the industries top talent…What’s your strategy to standout?

The answer…

Cruise ship employment has seen a tremendous amount of growth over the last several years. It has enabled thousands of people to trade a forty hour work week for worldwide travel and life changing experiences.

Regardless of your nationality, experience, sex, or background, the cruise ship employment industry offers the average person the employment chance of a lifetime. Where else can you get paid tax free while visiting the Caribbean, or the Alaskan frontier?

However, it is imperative that you have an educated resource to answer your questions,…

As with nearly every other industry these days, the loss employment industry is laying people off in spades. As company after company close down, thousands of people are finding themselves unemployed.  And for the people responsible for the security of these companies, new work is becoming increasingly impossible to find.  It is a scary time, as you consider that you may have to start looking for employment in another field. “But what?” is the question you may be asking yourself, as loss prevention employment is the field for which…

The Illinois state government has made it very easy for job seekers to find employment in the state of Illinois. The Illinois Department of Employment Services has launched its own website to provide online information. This is a government-operated website and features job listings for residents or future residents who are interested in the job opportunities available there. This site also caters to foreigners who are sponsored by companies in the state.

The Illinois Department of Employment Services also known as IDES provides information related to all aspects of employment…

Employment in India is at an all-time high despite the dullness of the global market as a whole and the employment opportunities are expect to only grow from here with companies in the south creating a number of jobs.

The IT and ITES boom has not gone out of style, and are still growing steadily. They in fact, are the primary hirers right now. Other hot hirers are those with telecommunication jobs, healthcare jobs, etc. Those in the retail industry are relatively safe as well thanks to the many…

December 12, 2008

RE: EMPLOYMENT UPDATE FOR 2009

Dear Friends, Clients and Colleagues:

Each year brings a new set of laws, regulations and scams. The number of new statutes, ordinances, regulations and case law continue to grow and impose an ever greater burden on businesses, especially small businesses and professional practices. Below is a brief review of some of the more important new laws that may impact your business or profession.

E-Verify

You may have heard about E-Verify, the computerized system by which an employer can match an employee’s…

Flexibility in Employment Policy

Rapidly changing environment organizations require flexible employment policies to meet the needs of their business, The process of flexible employment policies can be described as the design, development and mainte¬nance of a system of coordinated activities in which individuals and groups of people work cooperatively under leadership towards commonly understood and accepted goals, and these activities can be easily changed according to environmental changes.

The process of flexible employment policies involves the grand design or redesign of the structure, but most frequently…

EMPLOYMENT LAW DISTINCTION BETWEEN ‘EMPLOYEES’ & ‘WORKERS’ AFFECT HOLIDAY & PAY RIGHTS

Affect who the employer is and who is responsible for one’s wage or salary, holiday pay, employer’s contribution to national insurance, pension rights, and employment protection, the legal distinction made between “employees” and “workers”, and between those and “contractors” ~one’s entitlements depend on whether in the eyes of the law one is an employee, or a worker, subcontractor, self employed contractor –or partly a freelancer.

Because of their different legal definitions an ‘employee’ or a…