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100 Job Search Tips from Fortune 500 Recruiters

This is the first ebook by Fortune 500 recruiters that gives job seekers an inside look at what it takes to get a job.

Inside you’ll find a forward by Jack Mollen, Executive Vice President of Human Resources at EMC; en pages of recruiter tips, with each page profiling a different recruiter; and recommended resources.

Southwest Airlines: Using Myers-Briggs Assessment for Team Building

Southwest Airlines uses Myers-Briggs Assessment test to help teams build their communication skills.

Writing in Type: The Art of Choosing Typefaces That Work

Type is all around us: reports, webpages, cell phones, television, billboards, signs, and packages, to name only a few. All of these items should be pleasant to look at and innovative enough to attract and hold the readers' attention. Here are some secrets to accomplishing this goal.

How to Orally Deliver Bad-News Messages

Unpleasant news is too important to "wing it." Take time to deliver it in an honest, sensitive manner. Prepare ahead and put yourself in the other person's shoes.

By delivering the message with tact and kindness, you maintain the relationship and leave a positive impression in the worst of times.

What's Your Company's Communications Standard?

For all of the advances being made in our ability to connect, reach, listen, involve and discern each other’s perspectives and opinions, and the increasing complexity of globalization, there is still a reticence on the part of leadership
to establish a standard or discipline for how the organization and its workforce communicate and engage with each other.

The missing piece is a standard upheld by leadership promising certain protocols will be adhered to throughout the year.

Teaching Social Media: What Skills Do Communicators Need?

Edelman convened more than 100 professors of communications, journalism, business and public relations from across North America and Europe to discuss how companies, organizations, and media effectively engage their stakeholders through social media.

The sessions were led by more than 50 practitioners who guide digital communications strategies within leading organizations – including AstraZeneca, CNN, eBay, Environmental Defense Fund, GE, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Starbucks, The Lance Armstrong Foundation, UPS, and Whirlpool, among others.

This report provides best practices and actionable insights into how to engage employees, consumers, investors, regulators and media.

Google's Picasa Knows a Familiar Face

If the human brain sees a million images per day and can instantly identify them, why couldn't software do that, too?

Making such a thing a reality has been the longtime goal of German-born physicist Hartmut Neven, whose facial-recognition software firm was purchased by Google in 2006, with the stated goal of bringing his vision to digital photography.

Guidelines for Bias-Free Communication

Golden Rule: Identify a person the way she or he asks to be identified, regardless of forthcoming litany.

Here are guidelines for bias-free communication.

Learn about Defamation

Learn from an expert about defamation.

The Home Depot's Communication Makeover

When you're the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer,
communicating with more than 1,500 busy stores and 300,000 associates is
no easy task. And ensuring each store has received critical communications
and taken the associated actions can be nearly impossible.

 

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