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The Costly Universality of Limbaugh’s “Bond” Thinking

Posted on December 26, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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Pierce Brosnan is a 6’2” tall, dark Irishman with dark brown hair. Daniel Craig is a 5’10” Englishman with blond hair and blue eyes. From purely a looks perspective, few of the actors that played Bond really look like what Bond was supposed to look like, with the closest probably Timothy Dalton. Here’s a picture of Dalton, below Ian Flemming’s original sketch of James Bond:          So the man who looks most like the original James Bond character is widely regarded as the worst James Bond ever (aside from George Lazenby, who did just one film). And …Read more »

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The Top 10 Hiring Trends of 2014

Posted on December 19, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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The end of 2014 is near, and overall it has been a good year for the business world. While we still haven’t completely recovered from the “Great Recession” of 2008, corporate profits are up, the stock market hit record highs and gas is actuallyaffordable again. There have been tremendous changes in the hiring landscape as well in the past 12 months, much of it positive. So, without further ado, here are the top 10 hiring trends we saw in 2014 (and some bold predictions for 2015): 1. Hiring Was Up The best news of all, and something that is the root cause of …Read more »

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What You Can Learn From The U.S. Gov.’s Disastrous Hiring Process

Posted on December 16, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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The average federal employee makes $78,500 a year and is a recipient of a benefit package almost unheard of in the private sector, including a generous retirement package and good healthcare coverage. The federal government offers jobs where people can truly make a difference, like figuring out ways to help schools to understanding the mysteries of space, something cited by many as something they want out of work. And turnover is incredibly low as well, with USA Today finding that federal employees are more likely to die than get fired. Sounds like a great deal, right? And yet, despite all those advantages, the federal government is having …Read more »

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U.S. Schools Need To Assign More Of These

Posted on December 15, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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Over and over, we hear how the American school system is broken. We hear about underfunded schools with oversized classrooms taught by uncaring, untouchable teachers where kids graduate without knowing how to read. Frankly, I’m not so negative. I believe most of our teachers really care about kids and most students get a good education. I believe there is great opportunity in the United States for people who really dedicate themselves to a pursuit, which is why people from across the world still try to come to America, above all other nations. But there is one thing America’s schools could …Read more »

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The “Best Places To Work” Are Working Their Employees To Death

Posted on December 11, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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Glassdoor recently released its annual “Best Places to Work” list, based off of 800,000 anonymous evaluations completed in the past year. The winner, unsurprisingly, was tech giant Google. But what was interesting was not necessarily seeing the top 10 companies, but reading the reviews of those top 10 companies. I went through each one, and I noticed a theme: yes, they offered great benefits and great leadership. But, ironically, enough, a lot of the top 10 companies were working their employees hard. Really hard. For example, here is a review from a former employee of first-place finisher Google: “I don’t …Read more »

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Is Our Self-Help Obsession Really Helpful?

Posted on December 10, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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In 2003, ABC News published an article entitled “Want to Get Rich? Write a Self-Help Book” that detailed the explosion of popularity of self-help books. Ushered in by the rabid success of Oprah Winfrey, the genre went from occupying one shelf in the back of the bookstore to being a legitimate, hundred-million dollar industry. Eleven years later, the self-help genre has gone far beyond books, with experts suggesting it is now a $10 billion-plus market that includes everything from personal coaching to motivational speakers. And that doesn’t include most content-producing websites, particularly ones playing to the business crowd, which are …Read more »

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Is Amazon’s Data-Focused Experiment The Future Of Hiring?

Posted on December 9, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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In 2012, Target famously got in trouble when it was revealed that, through big data, it knew a teenager was pregnant before the girl’s father did. What happened was that through the girl’s purchases and Target’s data algorithms, the company correctly determined she was pregnant and began sending coupons for cribs and baby clothes to her house. Her father saw these coupons and went to Target to complain, only to discover that his daughter was indeed pregnant and she was hiding it from him. It makes for a kind of funny, if not a bit scary, tale of both the …Read more »

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Why Is Nashville Booming While Memphis Busts?

Posted on December 8, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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One was recently named the second-best big city for jobs, with an unemployment rate just over 5 percent. The other has an unemployment rate of 7.9 percent, and has been one of the slowest cities in the nation to recover from the Great Recession. One has a show named after it, a thriving culture and was described by Forbes as “Nowville.” Meanwhile, the other was described by Forbes as being the third-most miserable city in the United States and the second-most dangerous city in the United States. One has attracted 48 percent more college graduates to its population of 25 to 34 year olds since 2000, according to the New …Read more »

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The Motley Fool Has The Best Career Site. Period.

Posted on December 5, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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The Motley Fool, for those who don’t know, is essentially a news site dedicated to covering finance and the stock market, with the company also launching a mutual fund in 2009. They’ve been around since 1993, have about 300 employees and are based in Virginia. It is a successful company, becoming an influential voice in an increasingly-crowded market. But what really makes it unique is the amazing amount of energy and web space it spends marketing its employer brand. It isn’t wasted, either. Quite frankly, The Motley Fool’s recruiting team has the best presence on the web of any company …Read more »

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Did Netflix Just Blow $90 Million?

Posted on December 4, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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In an obvious attempt to “follow in the footsteps”, i.e. rip off, the success of one of the most successful shows on television, Game of Thrones, Netflix is releasing its own Middle Age-set, highly-expensive dramatic series on Dec. 12, Marco Polo. Despite the show’s introductory season being a mere 10 episodes, it costs $90 million to make, making it one of the most expensive shows in the history of television. It is a massive chance by Netflix to try to lure (and, more importantly, retain) viewers with its own original content, which could work if not for one small detail… The show, according to the …Read more »

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