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If the high cost of driving to work has you beaten down, consider what these seven companies are doing to make life more commuter-friendly: 1) Principal Financial The Des Moines, Iowa-based financial services firm underwrites a deal with the local public transit authority that allows its 8,000 employees to ride local buses for free, simply by flashing their company ID's. 2) F5 Networks Two years ago, 80% of the Seattle-… Continue

I had the pleasure of sharing a table with Bill Vick yesterday morning over a cup of coffee. It's funny....Bill flatters all of us by inviting us to be interviewed for a spot on on XtremeRecruiting.tv,when, actually, he knows more about recruiting than most of us will forget in our life-time. It's a rare find - a big-billing recruiter who is as kind and considerate as he is humble (our industry needs a fe… Continue

fyi - if you've failed to read all of your recent emails from LinkedIn, you might want to pay attention to this. On August, 14th, LinkedIn will begin enforcing a limit to the number of user-created groups any LinkedIn member may be part of at one time. They are setting that limit at membership in 50 (fifty) user-created groups. If you have membership in more than 50 Groups (as most recruiters do), you will need to take the initiative to reduce your number of groups to 50 prior to that date. If… Continue

I got an email today that "made my day." Yeah, I know, it's not all about me, but I really dig it when somebody takes the time to send a nice email, note, thank you card, whatev. It shows there's still a few good souls out there in the world who perceive the value of: - passing on a kind word - encouraging a stranger in their endeavors - appreciating the efforts of others and taking action to tell them. I got one of those today. Jeremiah Reyes took 2 min's and sent me an email. It made my day… Continue

I'm in the middle of reading a book by Tim Sanders called, Love is the Killer App (how to win business and influence friends). It's been out since 2002 - I actually picked it up at… Continue