Posted on June 30th, 2009 by Glassdoor Team
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) kicked off their 61st Annual Conference this week amidst the 80-90 degree heat in New Orleans. The SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition is a chance for HR professionals, academics and businesses to gather and learn new strategies and techniques for improving the workplace. The conference this year focuses [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2009 by Glassdoor Team
CEOs from two high-profile companies have stepped down from their positions this week to make room for a new wave of leadership. It was announced Thursday that Palm CEO Ed Colligan would be replaced by Jon Rubinstein, a former Apple executive. And earlier this week, Proctor & Gamble CEO A.J. Lafley announced that he would [...]
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Posted on June 1st, 2009 by Glassdoor Team
It finally happened — General Motors officially filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Although the numbers varied in the media in terms of the actual on employees effected, reports note that up to 14 plants and 17 factories will be closed, including the lay-off of nearly 8,000 salaried employees between now and the end of the [...]
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Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Glassdoor Team
Feel like you need Cliff Notes to keep up with some blogs? With so much going on with the current job landscape, as well as here at Glassdoor, we thought we’d help you out with some posts you might have missed. Here’s what has been generating the most attention on the Glassdoor blog this past [...]
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Posted on May 14th, 2009 by Glassdoor Team
The Associated Press reported Wednesday that current Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson saw a 60% paycut in 2009 compared to the previous year, which nets out at a still impressive $1.3 million. The decrease in earnings for Anderson, and for other top executives, is due to a lower performance bonus this year. The base salary [...]
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Posted on April 28th, 2009 by Guest Contributor
It’s true. We only get one chance to make a first impression. When a company interviews a potential candidate they may get three to five or more interview impressions but when all totaled, they become the “first impression” of the company. This is an important connection, and this impression should be actively managed by companies [...]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2009 by Guest Contributor
….you can never have enough. This was told to me recently by an executive and nothing could be truer, especially right now. In times of turmoil and trouble the best thing employers can do is to communicate. Athletic coaches know it. That is why sports have timeouts. Timeouts give the coach a chance to try [...]
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Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Guest Contributor
Bashing the compensation and bonuses of executives has become a household conversation. Seems like everyone has an opinion on the AIG bonuses that were paid last week and the debate over “who and what was right” will rage on for a few more news cycles.
But from it all, there are some lessons in those payments [...]
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Posted on March 13th, 2009 by Glassdoor Team
AOL’s CEO Randy Falco has left the building and it will be interesting to watch how the new CEO Tim Armstrong, a former Google advertising sales executive, will be received by employees. For the past several months, Falco has been on our CEO Watch List as one of the lowest rated CEOs on Glassdoor.com (w/ at least [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2009 by Guest Contributor
Glassdoor’s recent analysis on the gender pay gap in the engineering sector raises important questions that should be answered by both employers and employees. As Glassdoor pointed out, the data doesn’t give a tremendous amount of insight into elements that may be behind the numbers - like someone’s performance reviews or special skills - but [...]
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