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...Because for all our technology, the best way to land a job is still by having someone who already works at a company mention your name. Each year, the staffing consultancy CareerXroads surveys large firms about where they find new hires, and since at least 2005 the top spot has held steady: some 27% come from referrals. (Job boards, by comparison, have fed firms a consistent 12% of new hires; the rest come from recruiters, company websites, etc.) The difference today is that a lot more of those recommendations start with connections made through online networks. A recent report...
...maize leaves against them and set them alight. Thirty-eight people were burned alive. It took scientists at the morgue in nearby Eldoret more than a year to separate the remains. But while DNA tests could distinguish body parts and even piles of dust, they could not name them. At a mass burial on May 14 beside the scorched earth where the church once stood, 18 of the coffins were pasted with strips of white tape on which was written UN ELD - for Unknown, Eldoret - and a number to distinguish them from each other. Trinkets, scraps of clothes...
...guidebooks, phrase books and travel companions. Walk from Rome's Campo dei Fiori to the Spanish Steps on any evening this summer and you will spy his blue-and-yellow books under countless arms. Last week, 10 of the 20 best-selling European travel books on Amazon.com had Steves' name on the cover. When he's not updating his guides, Steves gives speeches, pens a newspaper column, hosts radio and television shows, runs group tours and does all this with the boyish enthusiasm of a college student who just got his first Eurail pass. (See 10 things...
Obama and his advisers may realize that their best chance to win an argument on the issue is now, when racial-preference programs are represented by a popular President's nominee and the opposition to them is represented by Limbaugh. Each side will claim to speak in the name of ordinary people, plausibly...
Communicating with others "wakes up the brain," María Amelia López explained in one of the last entries in her acclaimed online journal, amis95.blogspot.com. The name roughly translates as "my 95 years." That was how old López--who died May 20 at 97--was when she began posting on the blog that her grandson created as a birthday gift. At an age when some elderly women might unwittingly put a floppy disc into a CD drive, López became a worldwide Internet sensation, reaching more than 1.5 million far-flung readers from the comfort of her seaside hometown...