With the holiday season fast approaching, retailers need to reinforce their workforce to handle the increased business that comes with the period. This year, Amazon has just announced that they will add more than 50,000 temporary jobs (seasonal positions) at their fulfillment centers across the U.S.
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A lot of people dream of ditching their boss.
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Lately, some articles have come out about how Google is trying to keep more women working for the company. The articles have ramped up since longtime Googler Marissa Mayer left the company to take the CEO gig at Yahoo.
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In the last post I reviewed the trends for traditional languages like C# and Java. Today, we return to a list I call “web and scripting languages” because I do not have a better name. This list currently includes Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Groovy and Erlang. If you think I should be including another language, please let me know in the comments.
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I left for vacation right when the blogosphere was going nuts about Cathryn Sloane’s article in NextGen Journal: Why Every Social Media Manager Should Be Under 25. Because I was under a strict no-social-media rule imposed by family, I had to surreptitiously read the hundreds of comments – and I couldn’t blog about it. That’s right. Dad said no Facebooking or texting while on vacation. He (my husband) and my two Millennial sons had demanded my undivided attention for the week. NO TWITTER!! So, now I have the wraps off. What about what Cathryn actually said? Should only people under 25 be Social Media Managers? What are the skills required for a first-class social media team?
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Earlier this week, ex-Googler Marissa Mayerwas announced at Yahoo’s new President on CEO – a move that surprised plenty of people. Mayer was Google’s 20th employee, its first female engineer, and instrumental in developing many of the company’s most popular features. Read More…