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Nearly one in two human resource directors from Swedish companies report encountering job candidates who have lied or withheld relevant information during the recruiting process, a new study has found

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Way back in the dot com era the talk in corporate boardrooms often centered on creating buzz as the solution to any business problem:

* Revenues of $1,000 and expenses of $1,000,000 per month? Solution: more buzz!

Russ Stough, a Regional Business Director with the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies stops by to talk about the career path of their sales people. He'll tell you what inherent attributes you'll need to succeed in sales and how they create a small company feel inside such a large company.

Since the beginning of the year we’ve been barraged with forecasts and articles predicting anywhere from relatively short-term to a prolonged and a very severe recession in 2008. The experts almost all concur (even Fed Chief Ben Bernanke recently said as much) that the present day Mortgage Crisis is almost certainly going to drag the once robust US economy into a recession that could last as long as two years. The Conference Board just released April’s Consumer Confidence figures and they’re presently at a 30 year low. Heck, other than our President I don’t think there’s a single public figure not willing to go on the record and state that we’re headed for a recession. Yet, curiously there’s been little evidence of a slowdown in the I.T. employment marketplace.

You may remember that about two weeks ago, we blogged about this story. When perusing our local news affiliate’s website, I ran across this updated piece.

The Chicago Tribune published a great article, Honesty Always the Best Policy When Writing Up Your Resume, offering cautionary advice about (pick one) stretching details, lying, fudging, taking liberties with the truth, padding and, or embellishing your resume.

Without drastic action, the gap between demand and supply will continue to widen.

We may be in the midst of a recession with increasing unemployment and fewer jobs, but that's not likely to have much long-term effect on shortages of talent.

This company learned the hard way what can happen when an employee consumes alcohol on the job. A New Mexico man fell 20 feet to his death after slipping on a plank at a construction site.

This is what Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos recently said in an interview with Business Week. He says, “I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do.”

If I may take the liberty to relate this message (which was in fact in relation to queries about his and his company’s approach to innovation) to the present times when recession if the buzz word and layoffs are rampant all over - would that mean when in a layoff it is time to innovate, reinvent oneself or try to be your own boss?

What "Gadget" would make you the coolest recruiter in the office?

I put 3 of my own ideas on the site.

Employee referral programs are a lot like bottles of wine. Most companies have at least one, the vast majority of which are average or less than average, and only a few ever truly become exceptional. But the similarities don't stop there...

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Some great examples of resume lies. This article goes beyond some of the common examples used in explaining resume fraud.

What does your religion mean to you? To most people, their religion is a belief system that represents their morals and values. It is a guide on how to live their daily lives. At times, you may have heard about controversy involving people expressing their religious beliefs while at work. There may be occasions when employees want to practice their beliefs away from the job as well. Click the title to read more of the article.

Students who graduate from today's universities, business schools and MBA programs have worked long and hard to develop themselves as the ideal candidates for progressive careers in business and technology. University curriculum in this market requires not only courses in strategic financial management and integrated business and marketing communications, but also seminars in career and personal development such as resume building, interview skills, and the construction of an individual career strategy. Click the title to read more of the article.

Some work/career options for either those heading for retirement and want to continue working in a different area of interest or those post-retirement now looking forward to rejoin the workforce:

-- Back in a job with similar job description as you have been in before

Leading industrial and manufacturing companies around the world are today confronted with a range of new and increasingly complex challenges. The specialist executive search consultants who comprise the global Industrial search practice of Transearch International – and one of the global ‘Top 10’ executive recruitment firms – are on the frontlines and fault-lines of the competitive shift.

Growing tensions about the state of the world’s natural resources workforces have surfaced for a few stark reasons. These include the industry’s increased appetite for skilled workers, the ongoing challenge of convincing enough university students to pursue energy-related careers and the considerable demographic shift that is beginning to move the global post-war generation into retirement.

Hiring an employment screening firm to keep people safe is the best course of action here. The board is putting millions of patients at risk by negligently allowing some of these criminals into the w

According to an article in the BBC news columns, a survey says that Working women with children are significantly happier than stay-at-home mothers, regardless of how many hours they work. The Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness survey also found that job satisfaction for women with partners is greater when they work part-time, irrespective of how small or large these jobs are.

The full schedule for Track One is published here. Please click on the workshop title for that session's description and reservation details.

You'll find a printable version of the schedule along with a link to download the Program Overview and Curriculum Guide on that page too.

A case can be made that the Internet has done more harm than good.

Much of the hiring process from sourcing to closing to onboarding has changed significantly over the past 20 years. Much hasn't. And therein lies the problem.