Posted in Uncategorized on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today is International Women’s Day and I decided to ask a few of my friends and family members why they are proud to be women and here is what they said…
“It’s hard to say why I’m proud to be a woman, because I don’t necessary see myself as a woman–I see myself as a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged famous women, girls, leaders, national women's history month, role models, women on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness,heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.” -Bethany Hamilton (greatest female surfer of our time)
March is National Women’s History Month and the overarching theme is “Writing Women Back Into History” where they will be taking a look into the past at all [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advice, candidate, hired, hiring, interview, jobs, recruiting on March 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“Cool! See ya then.”
No this wasn’t a gchat response from one of my good friends, it was an email confirmation I recently got from one of my candidates at work. The sad thing is that Informal responses like this, are actually common in the hiring process. In the time I’ve worked in Staffing, here are [...]
Posted in generation y, millennials, tagged cell phone, internet, media, millennial, technology on February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Confident. Connected. Open to Change.
I came across this quiz today and took it as it only took at few seconds to complete. I scored an 82 out of 100 on how millennial I am, the higher your score, the more you have in common with members of the Millennial generation. There are only a few [...]
Posted in generation y, tagged dating, online dating on February 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A recent date horror story from a friend led to entertaining story for all of us, but an awful experience for her which probably led her to be even more weary of a friend of a friend of a friend setting her up.
Without going into too much detail let’s just say he was drunk before [...]
Posted in millennials, tagged dating, friendship, love, men, online on February 11, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In the past almost two years in which we have had this blog we have never broached the subject of relationships and dating and I am not sure why. Dating is an crazy part of life after college and is definitely worthy of being discussed. The methodolgy in meeting people in general after college is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I went to see Robert Redford speak at the Kabuki Theater in San Francisco during a series he is currently doing called The Art of Activism representing the Redford Center in Berkeley which has been part of his lifetime commitment to social and environmental change. The night was framed as a conversation about [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged career, college, life, work post-grad on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1800901
I came across this link today that I couldn’t resist sharing. Now let’s just hope this link somehow lands on the desk of college administrators and inspires them to have courses that are applicable to the real world. (Although memorizing 200 notecards while munching on Cheetos, downing a coke and dreaming about the weekend DID [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged avatar, blog, career, daily candy, funny, gen y, glassdoor, haiti, interview, links, neighborhood guide, nick swardson, notepad, oprah, text, untemplater on January 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
While you’re busy dreaming about the amazingness of your day off yesterday, you might want to check out these links:
1. Untemplater- Incredibly talented bloggers who give you the tools to breakout of your template lifestyle, and live the life you’ve always imagined. (Be sure to download their manifesto).
2. Nicole is better- I discovered this blog 2 nights [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gift card, giving, iphone, mobile, product, shopping, swagg on January 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Jenny and I were lucky enough to go to Vegas last week for the introduction of “SWAGG” a cool new mobile solution that promises to change the way you interact and transact. What an incredible time we had! I was hoping to get a sneak peak of the application, but because this product is so [...]
