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• Attitude vs. Experience: Which is More Valuable?

  BNET - 2008-11-28

    Is it better to hire people on the basis of their experience or their potential? If you believe experience is preferable, and that age equates with experience, there's no better time than now. By 2011 about half UK workforce will be over 40,...

  Tags: Job, Southwest Airlines Co., Experience, Behaviour, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Robin Stuart-Kotze

• Airline Finance News - North America

  - 2008-07-14

  7/14/2008 US airlines asked customers on Thursday to lobby Congress on legislation to curb speculation in energy markets, which carriers blame for a 50 percent jump in fuel costs this year. Skyrocketing fuel prices have forced airlines to slash jobs and capacity, raise fares, retire planes and introduce luggage...

  Tags: American Airlines, carrier, Continental Airlines Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., finance, Frontier, job, Manufacturing, Midwest, Northwest Airlines Corp., RPM, Southwest Airlines Co., United Airlines, US Airways Group Inc.

• Recruit Like the Pros

  BNET - 2007-02-27

  At companies like Google, Starbucks, and FedEx, talent scouts have unique ways to identify the very best hires Google: The Talent Show At its offices all over the world, Google holds events designed to help the company connect with local talent. One,...

  Tags: Brian Libby, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Candidate, Starbucks Corp., Federal Express, Southwest Airlines Co., Job, Talent, BNET Feature, Selection, Recruitment &Amp, Business, Applicant

• Southwest seeking happy handlers

  - 2006-08-27

  More job recruiters were on the hunt Friday for baggage handlers to work at Philadelphia International Airport, but this time, the airline looking is the one that's been expanding rapidly here. Southwest Airlines recruiters were certainly looking for workers with attitude - the friendly, upbeat kind - even for a...

  Tags: job, Southwest Airlines Co., US Airways Group Inc.

• Happy handlers

  - 2006-08-26

  More job recruiters were on the hunt yesterday for baggage handlers to work at Philadelphia International Airport, but this time, the airline looking is the one that's been expanding rapidly here. Southwest Airlines recruiters were certainly looking for workers with attitude - the friendly, upbeat kind - even for a...

  Tags: job, Southwest Airlines Co., US Airways Group Inc.

• Creating business-literate, cost-conscious, revenue-seeking entrepreneurs

  - 2006-07-01

  Kevin and Jackie Freiberg explain the benefits of teaching employees to see themselves as the people who can make the organisation grow. At Stanley Steemer, the Dublin, Ohio-based carpet-cleaning giant, new hires are not oriented or trained right away; instead they are celebrated. Founded in 1947, this company...

  Tags: chemicals, job, revenue, Southwest Airlines Co.

• Independence Air announces plan to cut additional flights, jobs

  - 2005-12-15

  Independence Air - once thought to pose a competitive challenge to Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport - announced plans yesterday to cut additional flights and jobs, continuing a downward spiral started earlier this year.The announcement comes just more than a month after Flyi Inc. - the parent company of the...

  Tags: Independence Air, job, Southwest Airlines Co.

• Happy at HomeBanc: an employee for life? Could there be a mortgage company pushing that strategy? Atlanta-based HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation is blending wisdom from Southwest Airlines, Disney, the Marine Corps and the NFL to build a different kind of cor

  - 2005-06-01

  Imagine a company where customers don't come first, employees do. The director of human resources is a minister, and internal meetings are often opened with a prayer. No experience is necessary, but good character is. [??] You may rub elbows with a former National Football League NFL quarterback at the...

  Tags: advertisement, athlete, Atlanta, Delta Air Lines Inc., Disney Corp., hiring, job, MARKETING, NFL, officer, Southeast, Southwest Airlines Co., strategy, training

• ATA closing call center at O'Hare; 264 jobs to be lost are carrier's first local cuts.(News)(ATA Airlines)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-01-24

  Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON ATA Airlines Inc. is shuttering a call center near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and laying off the 264 employees who work there. The workers, who were notified of the closure Jan. 11, will not receive any severa ...

  Tags: ATA, job, Midway, Southwest Airlines Co.

• Delta's pullout may cost 7,000 jobs.

  - 2004-12-02

  By Suzanne Marta, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 2--The North Texas economy could lose more than 7,000 jobs when Delta Air Lines Inc. shuts its hub at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, according to a study released Wednesday by...

  Tags: Delta, Delta Air Lines Inc., job, Southwest Airlines Co.