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...YOUNG COMPANY, IT IS sometimes helpful not to know what you're not supposed to accomplish. Desiree Rodriguez packed for a six-week assignment in London to build up MobiTV's presence in Britain. As a twentysomething new hire who parachuted into business development at a start-up relatively unknown overseas, she half expected to be shown the door at Turner Broadcasting or Channel 4 before getting a word in. But they, like others in Britain, saw the value in getting their programming on the rapidly expanding number of mobile devices...
...media and blends technology and business operations. He has a joint technical degree and M.B.A. and worked for about six years at Wink, a company for interactive TV, but craved "something small and new." He found it at MobiTV. "We're pioneers," he says. "I can't hire someone who has done my job before or mentor me in that way because it's never been done...
...find their careers stalled while they spend months in Swedish-language classes. The government has made attendance in language classes a precondition for receiving asylum benefits. Then comes the slog of requalifying in their profession. While Iraqis in Stockholm praise the Swedes' welcome, they struggle to persuade locals to hire them for professional jobs. "We have a lot of highly educated people driving taxis," says Faried al-Suheil, who fled Baghdad for Stockholm in 1993, moved back in 2003, then returned to Stockholm last summer. He stood at the doorway of the Iraqi prayer hall in the Stockholm suburb...
...times resembles a Japanese version of The Office, minus the meanness - comes from Haruko's clashes with her often incompetent full-time colleagues (one of whom is ironically played by Koutaro Koizumi, the adult son of Japan's former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, whose reforms encouraged Japanese companies to hire more part-timers like Haruko). Although the full-timers began the series condescending to Haruko, every week she saves the company by showcasing one of the skills she's picked up in her years as a temp - like preparing perfect sashimi. In fact, Haruko's victories are on-screen justice...
Haviland was more blunt about it: “I would hire Scott Boras as my agent and enter the MLB Draft...