Tag Archives: Full-Time

Facebook Isn’t A Good Way To Judge Potential Employees, Say Researchers

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Back in 2012, we learned that Facebook stalking would tell you if a person was worth hiring. Researchers at Northern Illinois University found that they could predict job performance based on just 5...
    






Four Reasons Merck’s R&D Restructuring May Not Save The Drug Giant (Or The Industry)

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Last Friday, Wall Street Journal reporters Peter Loftus and Jonathan Rockoff broke the story that Merck is planning a dramatic R&D restructuring.  The goal is to look externally for more programs...
    






The True Cost Of Christmas: Santa’s Tax Bill

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It’s Christmas Eve and this year, as always, at my house, there’s a lot of anticipation. And by anticipation, I mean that the kids don’t want to go to sleep (I have a totally different idea). We’re...
    






Jobs With Justice: New Campaigns Take Aim At Low Wages, Working Poor, Falling Middle Class

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The organized labor movement is changing, reflecting two large-scale trends. On the one hand, union membership – once 35 percent of the U.S. workforce in the 1950s – is at its lowest point in more...
    






Three Life Lessons From Famed Investor John Templeton

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John Templeton, who died in 2008, may not be as widely known today as Warren Buffett (though investors made pilgrimages to his Templeton Fund annual meetings in Toronto long before they started...
    






The U.S. Government Wants To Rank Our Colleges. Why?

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The U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, has come up with a plan to produce official government rankings of our universities. The plan was announced this past August, and over the past month,...
    






Two Heads Are Better Than One: A Model Of Shared Leadership

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From presidents and chief executives to football coaches and ships’ captains, the traditional view of leadership is one person at the top, sitting where the buck stops. But a model of shared...
    






This Man’s Business Is Providing Fake Job Histories And References

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After William Schmidt lost his job as part of a mass layoff from a Columbus, OH auto parts distributor in 2009, several colleagues who had also lost their jobs asked him if he would act as a...