Hungarian hacker gets 30 months for extortion plot on Marriott

Hacker demanded a $150K job, free hotel room and the right to work whenever he wanted Computerworld - A Hungarian hacker who attempted to extort money from Marriott International Inc. by...

Legal Alert: Title VII Record-Keeping Requirements Extended to GINA

Executive Summary: In a final rule published by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on February 3, 2012, the agency has extended the record-keeping requirements imposed under Title VII...

Report: Failed drug tests leave jobs open

Connection between drug abuse, joblessness part of state report’s findings. There are more than 80,000 job openings in Ohio, but employers say finding enough workers who can pass drug tests to...

Morning Bell: Federal Workers Overpaid, and CBO Agrees

Here’s some news that federal bureaucrats in Washington — and indeed around the country — don’t want to hear: According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report (http://cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12696) released this...

Cities where women earn the best pay

San Jose tops the list, followed by San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Can where you hang your hat shape the size of your salary? Absolutely. U.S. job markets vary drastically by...

Facebook Timeline Looms: What You Need to Know

Soon Facebook users who have been avoiding the social network’s Timeline feature (http://www.pcworld.com/article/240400/facebook_adds_timeline_feature_and_supercharges_apps.html?tk=rel_news) won’t be able to stave it off any longer and will be seeing their profiles change considerably....

Kitzhaber, Oregan and other State Officials face a Disabilities Act class action lawsuit

Disability Rights Oregon, Oregon's protection and advocacy system, filed a class action federal lawsuit under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) alleging that undue segregation of people...

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The Socialization of Recruiting

If you have been a recruiter for any length of time you know that the industry is evolving at the speed of the internet. When I started recruiting we relied on newspaper ads to push our jobs out to the public and cold called prospects over the telephone to pull them in to interview. We also did a lot of networking… old school networking.

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Ending Social Media Marketing Confusion

jillwhalen Consider this scenario: You know you're supposed to get on Twitter to somehow promote your website. So you start randomly tweeting out links to a product or service page on your website. But who is going to care? Sure, you could do some Twitter searches and find people who are asking their own Twitter followers about a product or service that you may happen to offer.

This Job is in Your Way

dethragiles Tasha Johnson went to college with high hopes. She had dreams of being the CFO of a Fortune 500 Company, being seen as the leading authority on Finance and being one of the “financial experts” interviewed for commentary on the nation’s debt. Tasha, for as long as she could remember, had visualized her first real job: she would be fresh out of college, new degree in hand with two job offers, a starting salary of $65,000.00 annually, a healthy benefits package and a corner office on the top floor with lots of windows.

Can An Employer Wrongfully “Hire” Someone? Case Highlights Potential Pitfalls of the Hiring Process

chadmoeller A federal jury recently awarded a former Seagate Technology engineer $1.9 million on his claim that he
was wrongfully “hired” by the company.

The case, Vaidyanathan v. Seagate U.S. LLC, No. CV-09-1212 (D. Minn. Nov. 19, 2010), highlights two
valuable considerations for employers:

4 reasons your workforce strategies must change

mattrivera The Great Recession brought many changes to workforce management, but it was really just a wake-up call for what was going to happen in the future. What’s next? It’s hard to say, but I can give you a few good reasons why you must rethink your workforce strategies right now.

Getting Hired and Upward Mobility: “Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude”

AdrienneHuntley It is always important that an employee knows their job responsibilities and can perform those duties effectively, if they have any hope of obtaining employment or progressing within an organization. However, unless that employee possesses the right attitude their aspirations to become gainfully employed or to climb the ladder of success, within an organization, may come to a screeching halt.