Archive for March, 2005

Judge Rules Chicago Fire Department Test To Be Discriminatory

Monday, March 28th, 2005

In a recent ruling, a judge ruled that the Chicago Fire Department’s test was biased against African-Americans. The ruling, which criticizes several aspects of the test, such as athe test featured an 83-minute videotape that made up 85 percent of the total score, [but] measured only note-taking skills, which rated last among identifiable abilities for [...]

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Destined to Be Off-Shored? A Recruiter Looks At Off-Shoring Recruitment

Sunday, March 27th, 2005

It seems these days that so many different jobs have the potential to be off-shored. While you may think that your job won’t be off-shored, here is an interesting article in Erexchange.com, by a recruiter, about the possibility of recruiting jobs being off-shored. Whether or not you agree with his arguments, what is particularly [...]

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HR/Employment Blogosphere update for March 28, 2005

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

Here we go folks! This week, you have your choice. You can explore these bare-naked links all by yourself, or you can click on the audioblog link at the bottom and listen to my running commentary through your computer’s speakers or a headset. C’mon. You’ve been coming back to this Blawg again and again. Maybe [...]

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Blogosphere yields gem of a job journal and takes me for a Saturday ride that beats heck out of reading the paper

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

Before I tell you about the wonderful — though somewhat lengthy — “job journal,” allow me a moment to trace my disjointed Saturday morning surf that led to this gem.(This occurred moments after my daughter asked: “Dad, do you have ADD?” — You can answer for yourself after you read about where I went while [...]

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Job sharing and telecommunicating — will they continue to grow as "flexibility" options?

Friday, March 25th, 2005

Two items that came to my attention today both relate to the general issue of “flexible” job arrangements for accommodating employees who want to maintain both quality of employment and quality of life.At times, it seems that discussions of options such as job sharing and telecommuting are just a lot of talk, and that these [...]

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