Blog Posts Across Career and Recruiting Entrances

A friend and I were observing the newest crop of freshmen and considering the things they do. We then considered how their new lives translate onto social networking sites such as MySpace, FaceBook, Hi5, and others.

Paraphrasing, my friend complained, "It's just a bunch of photographs of people holding cups of red beer, doing insane things, standing in outrageous positions, making faces, and just being really stupid." There was a longer litany of foolish and outlandish representations…

One of the things I most dislike is wasting time. Needlessly and mindlessly doing things repeatively for the sake of doing <i>something</i> instead of meaningful engagement in a purposeful activity that has a substantive reward for completion drives me up a wall.

While we're on the subject of things that make me grind my teeth, disrespect is right up there in the Top Ten as well. But that's another blog post.

I've spent most of this morning trying to get a good Inter…

I'm preparing for a webinar on Thursday and need to send some information to one of the panelists. In the endeavor to collect two links, I'm stumbling around several websites.

What a surprise to learn that what i thought was a new site to me is actually one I've visited and browsed before. In fact, I'm still logged in! It seems when I registered to be part of BizJournals.com, I also became registered with their sister sites. That's why I'm stil…

One of my new friends (Colleen, who is a poet) from Book Place has tagged me. It started with a friend of hers who started a meme. (You need to click on the link to find out what the word means, but there are a few hints and tips as you work through this.) And now the race is on to keep the co…

The current brouhaha that's consuming the news airwaves is the matter of Paris Hilton's submitting herself to the laws of the land and the orders of the court. Unfortunately, what she is showing all of us is that she has never in her life been disciplined nor learned to take responsibility for any of her actions. She has never learned how to pay the price for a mistake because she can always buy her way out of the situation or crybaby her way to forgiveness. She's led a pampered life. She's n…

Hampton University, a traditionally black university, recently hit the national news when it came down with an addition to requirements for its Bachelors / MBA candidates. It added a dress code that requires not wearing hair in a certain style typically considered black or African i…