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What Companies Can Learn from the Southwest Airlines Crisis

Success

Normal operations have since resumed. Southwest’s weaknesses were its antiquated software that couldn’t handle the extreme weather event, and its point-to-point operations model. The Black Swan theory and tradeoffs between efficiency and resiliency The Southwest situation can be classified as a Black Swan event.

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Is Your Resume Hot? Or a HOT mess?

Melissa Peoples

After giving notice, and thinking now that it wasn't perhaps the best time for clarity or objectivity, I dusted off my resume, added my now former role, and began applying to likely-sounding prospects. Bear in mind, I had been recruited or referred into my past couple of roles, so my resume hadn't been top of mind for a while.

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How Companies Can Support Moms in–and Returning to—the Workplace

Success

As the founder and president of a Florida-based public relations and branding agency, she had spent her pre-kid days making the most of the fun parts of her job, even attending events well into the evening. Therefore, families of three can expect to pay around $3,000 to $8,400 monthly on daycare or childcare expenses.

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Top 3 Recruitment Metrics Recruiters Must Look Into

Recruit CRM

Finally, “time in process” breaks down the time to hire by the amount of time a job seeker spends in each step of the hiring process, which may include screening resumes and conducting interviews. Knowing how long your hiring time is can help you shorten your process, making you much more efficient.

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Be An Unforgettable Speaker – Organization Techniques That Make You Easy to Work With

Stephanie LH Calahan

Do you ever consider what event coordinators are juggling?    What can you put in place in your business to make sure that the event coordinator has a fantastic time working with you?   Any time you work with an event coordinator understand that they are likely VERY busy & maybe unorganized. 

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Riding that Job Wave

Who's the Real Boss?

Are you hanging around in your own role because you feel you haven’t served a long enough period of time for it to be justifiable on your resume? We all have fear of having a resume that you could play hop scotch on. But let me flip this around for you and present another perspective.

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7 Unexpected Ways Your Finances Matter When Job Hunting And Working

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

One of the most surprising things for me was to learn that not all companies will give you an expense account or a company credit card. That’s assuming you have enough free time to do an expense report immediately for 2 hours on top of your already busy schedule. You’ll need to make copies of your resume or have a nice folder.