Archive for December, 2009
Hello there! Thanks for reading some of my blog post this year. Have a safe, spectacular, successful, wonderful, joyful, exciting, prosperous, unique, and awesome 2010! You get the idea. Happy New Year!
I recently read John Zappe‘s feature on the $33M for an Army recruitment video game. GameSpot reported that $33M was spent over 10 years (year-by-year budget summary is below in Chart 1). Taking a deeper dive into the story, I learned that the military combined spent about $700 million on recruitment advertising during the President Bush years. $33M amounts to [...]
Candidates make mistakes all the time – being too aggressive, unprofessional email addresses, ring tone rings, funky voice mails, bad mouthing previous employers, and the list goes on, right? Well, I did a search for ”GEICO hiring” on twitter to see what tweets have been posted this morning. I did the search not because I’m searching for a [...]
Here’s an example of a new business and green jobs being created. The US needs innovation and new businesses. Solar power when the sun goes down? A Santa Monica, Calif., company called SolarReserve has taken a step toward making that a reality, filing an application with California regulators to build a 150-megawatt solar farm that [...]
Jobs Jobs Jobs are the focus of The Whitehouse Jobs Summit. The Summit will focus on three main areas: Green Jobs Infrastructure Small Business financing Green Jobs focuses on reducing our carbon footprint, jobs in renewable energy (wind, solar, biofuels, etc), but also can include logistics jobs and “green” products made from recycled material etc… [...]
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