Today - November 20th, 2009

AOL’s recent announcement about their voluntary separation packages brings back the question of whether or not the acceptance of a voluntary package is a good thing or not in this economy? First of all, let’s be real about why companies offer voluntary packages. The reason is to soften the blow of what is coming and ... - Read full post
- Categories:
- Career Advice, In the News
- Tags:
- AOL, Career Story, Career/Workplace Stress, Clearview Collection, Layoffs, Rusty Rueff
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As we have blogged in the past, due to our current economic backdrop, the flow of talent interested in available opportunities is overwhelming to companies. You must do all you can to insure your information is reviewed by the right people in a timely manner. And one of the first and most important steps is ... - Read full post
- Categories:
- Career Advice, Interviews
- Tags:
- Clearview Collection, Hank Stringer, Resumes

How much personal health information should employers have about employees or job candidates?
- Categories:
- Career Advice, Watercooler
- Tags:
- Clearview Collection, Hank Stringer, Health, Jeff Hunter, John Sumser, Liz Ryan, Privacy, Rusty Rueff

As you sit at your office working away, you hear a co-worker nearby hacking up a lung and blowing their nose into tissue after tissue. At this point, there are two common lines of thought that occur in response to this situation:
- Categories:
- Watercooler
- Tags:
- Competition, Health, work/life balance, Workplace Culture
Forget the black hole — that’s a terrible way to get a job. People say “But I called the HR department, and they told me that I have to put my resume into the company’s ‘careers’ website in order for it to be considered.”
- Categories:
- Career Advice, Interviews
- Tags:
- Clearview Collection, Hiring Process, HR, Liz Ryan, Resumes

Is your company a best place to work? If so, there’s no time to wait – you have just two weeks left to meet the eligibility guidelines for the awards. Keep in mind that, unlike other workplace awards, this one is based off the company reviews submitted to Glassdoor by employees. Details on how to ... - Read full post
- Categories:
- Glassdoor Updates, Reviews
- Tags:
- Awards, Best Places to Work, Top Rated Companies

All stories that we hear are basically the same three act structure, so there is no reason that the interview stories that we are used to hearing or telling should not come in the same three acts:
- Categories:
- Career Advice, Interviews
- Tags:
- Career Story, Clearview Collection, Interview/Employment Style, Rusty Rueff

According to Glassdoor interview reviews, 15% have acquired a job interview with the help of a recruiter and 3% get an interview by working with a staffing agency. Given these findings, we were curious to find out what it’s like to be a recruiter or staffing agency professional in this market. What does it take ... - Read full post
- Categories:
- Interviews, Reviews
- Tags:
- Aerotek, Apple, Jobs, Kforce, Microsoft, Recruiters, Recruiting, Robert Half International, Spherion, TEKsystems, Volt Information, Workplace Culture

Someone wrote: “I know you want to put the candidate in the control of their career, but make sure you tell candidates how to be a responsible driver.” It’s a great point. Just because you control your career doesn’t mean that you can make everyone else bend to your will. It doesn’t matter how good ... - Read full post
- Categories:
- Career Advice, Interviews
- Tags:
- Clearview Collection, Confidence, Do's & Don'ts, Interview/Employment Style, Jeff Hunter, Job Search, Recruiters

Layered deep beneath all the makeup, hairspray and intense marketing jargon may actually be some useful career lessons from tabloid-media darling Kate Gosselin. You may be saying “yeah right,” but alas, it’s true. Even without the eight, Kate Gosselin may actually have more to offer the world than just a sensationalistic read at the grocery ... - Read full post
- Categories:
- Career Advice, Watercooler
- Tags:
- Interview/Employment Style, Kate Gosselin