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Canadian companies are limiting employee access to portable computers, USB keys and MP3 players

49% of Canadian companies are limiting employee access to portable computers and USB keys MP3 players such as iPod's are also on the list...


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Three’s a crowd! The candidate, the employer and the partner

Managing your career also means knowing how to manage your personal life. Generally, we think about balancing work and home but when the time comes to make a decision about a new job we have a tendency to forget the person who will support us through the transition and help us to reach our goals.


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Job requirements are not always realistic…

Here is a good example


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Immigrants integration to the job market

“30 seconds” for immigrant recruitment The promotion of the integration of immigrants to the job market will have it’s publicity campaign televised as from September.


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Recruitment by simulation

For its sixth store in the Paris region which opened a year ago in Franconville (a Paris suburb) Ikea turned to an atypical hiring method. Three quarters of the 420 employees at the new store were recruited according to a “recruitment simulation method".


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MyBadBoss contest

. After the « Good boss » competition organized by Monster in 2005, it is Working America’s (an affiliate of the AFL-CIO union in the US) turn to organize their own...


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Getting replies to your emails

. With recruitment always being a collaborative process, email is often the most common method for communicating with the various people involved. The impact of an email however, remains weak in comparison to a telephone conversation or a meeting. To give your emails more weight here are a few tips...


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The Ax Job seeking on the big screen!

A provocative film whose subject concerns all those who work in human resources, recruitment, executive search and those who have ever lost their job or who could potentially lose it tomorrow.


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Rejected application

The computer virus Yamanner appeared on June 12th,and attacking Yahoo users email service seemed to be the work of a candidate try to get noticed in order to obtain a job in a software company. Here is their application letter…


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Job offer: Keep it simple


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Internal mobility: a skills management issue

The retirement of the baby boomers is near. The oldest among them are reaching 60. In several sectors, there will not be enough youths to take over...an impending shortage. Internal mobility constitutes a way of satisfying this shortage.


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Google’s carrots for attracting the best

If Google is the best search engine in the world, with 8 billion indexed pages and 250 million requests per day in 35 languages, it’s machine for recruiting and developing the best talents works through a sophisticated cocktail of work conditions and benefits reserved for the stars. This cocktail of work life conditions aims to develop creativity.


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