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Five Signs That You Have a Crummy Job: Five Signs That You Have a Crummy JobAt least you have a job...Think your job's crummy? Imagine not having that one and having to tell your children that ice cream isn't in the budget this month. That's a crummy feeling.RE: Five Signs That You Have a Crummy JobThis...; Tags: Crummy Job; Discussion threads 2008-07-01
Surviving a Downturn: When jobs and budgets are cut, small problems can quickly turn into big ones. As a manager, it's your job to reassure your staff. Learn what your employees are looking for from you and how you can keep your staff informed, even when you don't have all the answers. ...; Tags: Job, Staff, Downturn, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Edward Muzio, Four Secrets to Liking your Work, Crummy Job; Videos 2008-06-27
Recession Survival Strategies: Has the recession put your organization in a choke hold? Here's how to survive — even thrive — in the face of budget cuts, layoffs, and sub-zero morale.Beyond the balance sheet, there's another way to tell that recession has set in — and it might be even more disconcerting than...; Tags: Strategy, Recession, Economy, Downturn, Management, Team, Motivation, Crummy Job, BNET Feature Package; Articles 2008-06-23

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Master Your Networking Skills to Rescue Yourself From a Crummy Job: You know the old saying: It's who you know. Don't know anybody good? Maybe it's because you're notÂ networking enough or properly. Dumb Little Man offers 25 essential rules for networking success, starting with these: Start before your need itÂ The best time to start building your network...; Tags: Network, Benefit, Networking, Rick Broida; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Five Signs That You Have a Crummy Job: Dream jobs quickly become crummy jobs when companies are struggling to stay afloat. Here are five telltale signs that recession is affecting your job. Crummy Factor #1: Budget Ax Severs Emotional Ties Day-to-Day Impact: Loyalty goes by the wayside. When employees are...; Tags: Accounting, Best Buy Co. Inc., Deloitte LLP, Downturn, Employee, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Human Resources, Job, Lindsay Blakely, Management, Operational Accounting, Recession, Recruitment & Selection, Restoration Hardware Inc., Workforce Management; Articles 2008-06-23

Crummy Jobs Cross the Atlantic: The Find: Crummy jobs aren't just an American phenomenon: a new survey finds half of UK employees feel less than valued by their employer. The Source: A report -- Social Capital in the Workplace -- conducted by the Workplace Intelligence Unit WIU and forward thinking inc. ...; Tags: Jessica Stillman, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Workplace; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Ten Warning Signs of a Crummy Boss: The Find: A ten question checklist to help those looking for a job or shopping around for a new department discover if their prospective boss is a jerk or an incompetent. The Source: Management guru Bob Sutton's Work Matters blog. The Takeaway: Right now...; Tags: Boss, E-mail, Team Management, Blogging, Online Communications, Management, Internet, Jessica Stillman; Blog posts 2009-02-18
Why Are You Complaining?: A reader writes: Help! My boss is a complete idiot! He doesn't bother to get into the details of my reports or work assignments. He just makes motherhood statements and when asked for details, he turns to his staff. He delegates everything, even assignments that should be done by...; Tags: Boss, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Geoffrey James; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Men Suffer Sexual Harassment in Silence: Is this a blow for equality? It transpires that in the UK, the office sex pests are most likely to be ladettes. According to research by Peninsula, a Manchester law firm, 77 per cent of over 2,000 male employees surveyed had been sexually harassed by a female...; Tags: Joanna Higgins, Workforce Management, Gender And Diversity, Recruitment & Selection, Recruiter, Harassment, Job, Human Resources; Blog posts 2008-07-02
Financial Roundup: GE Cuts, Credit Card Woes, Offshore Banking Probe, Crummy MBA Job Market: GE's Focus: Fixing Financial Unit -- Conglomerate GE is chopping away at its giant GE Capital financing unit. GE will take a charge of up to $1.4 billion to speed up shrinking the financing group through cost cuts, discontinuing some operations and decreasing leverage with reduced borrowing. GE says a...; Tags: Offshore, Job, General Electric Co., Financial, Credit Card, Banking, Outsourcing, Financial Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Robert Reed; Blog posts 2008-12-02
Automakers craft hefty, creative buyout packages to shed workers: Correction ran 3/29/2006: Buyout packages are being offered to some auto-parts workers by Automotive Components Holdings, a company responsible for selling off Visteon auto-supply plants. The company was incorrectly identified in a story and photo caption on 1B Tuesday. SALINE, Mich. -- For seven years, Wachauna Johnson has been...; Tags: Benefits, General Motors Corp., job, pension, Visteon Corp., worker; Research articles 2006-03-28
The Best of BNET 2008: In case you missed these, here's a roundup of some of the year's most popular features, blog posts, and videos. In case you missed these, here's a roundup of some of the year's most popular features, blog posts, and videos: ...; Tags: Blog, Blogging, Sales Strategy, Corporate Communications, Internet, Sales, Marketing, Best of BNET, 2008, Year-End, BNET Video, BNET Feature Package, Podcast, BNET Staff; Articles 2008-12-18
Downturn Strategy Fail? Better Start Networking!: Sometimes even the best laid plans of mice and managers can fail, especially in a downturn. It's best to be prepared for the worst. And the best thing you can do when pink slips are plentiful is network. Remember networking? You probably did a lot of it in the way...; Tags: Michael Mattis, Networking, Network, Strategy; Blog posts 2008-07-02
An Antidote for Toxic Bosses: The Find: If market turmoil and the credit crunch has turned your boss toxic, fight back and neutralize her corrosive influence using these tips from Harvard Business School. The Source: The Conversation Starter blog from Harvard Business. The Takeaway: This summer BNET chronicled the...; Tags: Harvard Business School, Boss, Poison, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Blogging, Monitors & Displays, Human Resources, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jessica Stillman; Blog posts 2008-09-25
BNET Wins Neal Award: It's been a banner week here at BNET. On Tuesday, we learned we'd won two 2008 Best in Business Awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Today we have more good news: American Business Media handed out its 2009 Neal Awards, and our site won Best Web...; Tags: Category, BNET Staff; Blog posts 2009-03-20
Stop Being Boring - Become The "Talked About" Company In Order To Build Your Employment Brand: Recruiting is just marketing and sales with a crummy budget. No matter how hard an individual recruiter tries, they can only have a minimal impact on bringing in recruits. Placing want ads and attending job fairs can also only bring in a relative trickle of applicants. Even great Web pages...; Tags: Brand, Recruiting, Robinson & Associates, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2003-01-01
Stop Being Boring - Become The Talked About Company In Order To Build Your Employment Brand!: Recruiting is just marketing and sales with a crummy budget. No matter how hard an individual recruiter tries, they can only have a minimal impact on bringing in recruits. Placing want ads and attending job fairs can also only bring in a relative trickle of applicants. Even great Web pages...; Tags: Brand, Recruiting, Robinson & Associates, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2003-01-01
Be Prepared To Perform In More Video Interviews: Search firms nationwide are expected to rely more on video interviews to screen candidates due to the current reluctance or inability to use air travel. Given this, how can you be at your best in front of the cameras? Will you come across as credible or crummy? How can you...; Tags: Dow Jones & Company Inc., Video, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing; White papers 2009-01-01