You can just hand over your business card in some nervous fumble. You can do the Japanese-style two-hand-and-bow method. You can toss your cards on the table and let people grab one. Or, you can hand over your business card with a magic trick that makes it look like your card is printing out right [...]
Video: Wow! Windows Vista
This is my newest favorite ad. It’s for the launch of Microsoft’s new Vista operating system. I’m a Mac user, so I’ve not even seen the actual Vista product, but the concept is big. And this is a lesson for HR out there…getting employees to say “Wow!” is never a bad idea.
SNL did a skit this week called the “All Hands Meeting” and the discussion was about cutting the budget. Watch closely for the two times that the cost-cuttinging ideas include “Cut Human Resources.”
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Ever need just the right power word for your resume? Here’s a complete list of English power words from eMurse that you can use to “bolster,” “fashion,” and “modernize” your curriculum vitae.
The ball-and-chain was a restraint used in Sing-Sing prison. Now, for corporate prisoners, there’s the Blackberry-and-chain, which has the same effect on the workforce as the original. Jacqui Cheng at Ars Technica reports on a recent survey that asked “whether devices like the BlackBerry ‘chain you to work more than they liberate you.’” :
[S]urvey results [...]
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