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• What’s Next for the All Digital World?

  So Ziff Davis Media , one of the leading integrated technology media companies in the country, just announced that PCMag , its flagship brand, will go all-digital. The final print version will be the January 2009 issue. For the past seven years, PCMag Read More... Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Current Affairs, Employment Trends, Ownership & Initiative, Technology

• The World Beyond 9-5

  Remember when you were a kid and stayed home from school because you were sick? Remember how weird it was to watch all those daytime TV talk shows and think, “so this is how the other half lives.” Remember how it was even stranger when you accompanied Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Employment Trends, Life Balance, Technology, Daily Life, Work

• Recruitment Spotlight: Can Candidates Find Your Jobs?

  In the coming months, I’m going to be focusing some of Water Cooler Wisdom’s content around employee recruitment and retention techniques. Let’s start with the obvious: the e-advertisements that you, as a manager or HR rep, might be perennially posting Read More... Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Employment Trends, HR Issues, Job Hunting, Technology

• Ingenuity Pays Off When Recruiting Millennials

  Thanks to Steven Rothberg at CollegeRecruiter.com for sharing news of the innovative, first-ever Deloitte & Touche Film Festival. The festival invited employees in the accounting and consulting firm’s US operations to make short videos that answered Read More... Posted Monday, October 01, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Current Affairs, Employment Trends, Technology, Work

• Check Out The Most Painless Job Hunting Activity Ever

  It’s official: recruiting has entered the twenty-first century. A few weeks ago, I introduced the concept of Web 3.0 , and what do you know? We’re here already. TMP Worldwide is working with exclusive companies including eBay , Microsoft , HP and Verizon Read More... Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Creativity & Innovation, Employment Trends, Job Hunting, Networking, Technology

• Job Videos Bring Candidates the Insider View

  Employer videos, or video job advertisements, are popping up all over the Web from YouTube and Facebook to the company Web sites themselves. And depending on the type of firm and its willingness to be cutting-edge, these videos are often really entertaining Read More... Posted Friday, March 09, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Employment Trends, Job Hunting, Technology

• Should Everyone Have a Blog?

  A lot of career experts have been buzzing lately about the necessity of having a blog. Their rationale is that everyone who’s anyone is out there participating in the online conversation, and that if you don’t have something valuable to contribute, employers Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 9 Comments Filed under: Communication, Employment Trends, Personal Marketing, Technology, Blogging

• Brave New Careers: Part II

  Here are some more insights on where our careers are headed as the twenty-first century progresses: Where we’ll be working: We’ve already seen the industrial model of everyone at the same place, at the same time, begin to disappear. As connectivity becomes Read More... Posted Sunday, April 30, 2006 10:00 PM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Employment Trends, Business, Technology Attachment(s): http://www.benefitscanada.com/content/legacy/Content/2002/03-02/insights.jpg

• Brave New Careers: Part I

  For those of us who are members of Generations X and Y, born roughly between the years of 1965-1985, the future is coming up fast. Our careers are relatively young, and for those still in college, they haven’t even begun yet. But already, technology is Read More... Posted Monday, April 24, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Employment Trends, Business, Technology Attachment(s): http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/careers/careersarchive/workplace/sep02/refl01.jpg