Net the perfect job.
Click! With the press of a button, it's easy to send your cover letter and resume to dozens of employers over the internet. But how can you be sure that they are getting into the right hands? These guidelines, offered by CareeJournal.com, The Wall Street Journal's career...

MCAD help wanted: mechanical designers can use the internet to find jobs fast. (i-collaboration: tools and technologies for collaborative design).
If it's been some time since your last job search, you may be surprised at the changes in the world of job hunting and recruitment brought about by the online tools now available. This month I cover Web sites that can help you find CAD positions, the skills required...

A thousand career options for kids to explore.
The heart of the third edition of Exploring Careers: A Young Person's Guide to 1,000 Jobs includes 49 in-depth profiles of on-the-job workers that try to give students a good sense of what many jobs are really like. The book breaks the 1,000 job types into 14 major interest...

Manual should include at-will employment status.
Byline: On the Job by Bureau of Labor & Industries For The Register-Guard Q: We understand Oregon is an employment-at-will state and that we don't necessarily have to show cause to fire an employee. What should we say about this in the employee handbook we distribute to...

Using his own ways to motivate people, Toronto operator is upbeat about OCS: Bob Hale of Mister Coffee builds a corporate culture based on positive behavior; he also sees technology restoring OCS to its former glory. (Operation Profile).
If you're a customer of Mister Coffee & Services Inc., chances are you look forward to the weekly visit from your Customer Service Representative (CSR). He always wears a buttoned white dress shirt, a tie and a smile. He replaces your used glass carafes with clean ones. As he...

Vending industry attorneys offer best practices for hiring and terminating employees: as American society has become litigation prone, employers must be aware of what they can and cannot ask prospective employees. Good hiring practices will also help companies find the best employees. (Special Report).
What are "best practices" in hiring and firing employees? Large companies commission studies, hire consultants and have human resources personnel dedicated to unraveling the mystery. But your company, like most companies, probably cannot afford such luxuries. So, what do you do? To begin with, talk with other vending operators....

Does your company office need a productivity check? (OCS Report).
Looking around your facility or office, you probably see lots of activity--papers are flying, phones are ringing and trucks are being loaded. But if you look closely, what is really going on? Are workers busy working or are they really just doing busy work to make it look like...

The paraeducator paradox. (Education 2002).
Somewhere along the line something went wrong. Special education has become system that depends heavily on relatively untrained, underpaid, and devalued staff members to provide instruction to our most challenging students. That is what I call the "paraeducator paradox." The following is a brief description of some...

A view from the top.
There is a Randy Newman song called "It's Lonely at the Top." Listening to that song always reminds me of how it felt in the years I spent in the superintendency. I once said that superintendents make the May-tag repairman look like a party animal. The very nature of...

Teamwork is good for your health care. (World News).
Nurses who work in teams are less stressed than their more isolated colleagues and deliver better and more innovative patient care with lower hospital mortality rates, according to new research for the UK Government. Researchers from Aston University Business School, Birmingham, studied 400 teams working in primary...