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Do You Have the Vision to Innovate?
Google the term "insurance innovation" and you'll get over 38,000 results. Probably not surprising, and as you would expect, the results are everything from an actual domain name to consulting groups ...
Employers Screening Social Media Accounts May Alienate Job Candidates
Research from North Carolina State University shows companies that screen the social media accounts of job applicants alienate potential employees – making it harder for them to attract top job ...
Five Key Traits CEOs Look For When Hiring Talent
(This article is based on a presentation made by Libby at the IICF Women in Insurance Global Conference in New York on June 13, 2013.) CEOs are often grilled in boardrooms on innumerable challenges: ...
How Companies Can Guard Against Employee Betrayal: Schneier
Ever since Edward Snowden walked out of a National Security Agency facility in May with electronic copies of thousands of classified documents, the finger-pointing has concentrated on government's ...
Free Work Entices Businesses to Hire Long-Term Unemployed
After conducting almost 10,000 job interviews during 10 years as a human resources manager, Tom Kaminski says he thought he knew enough about the labor market to keep his own bout of unemployment ...
Best-Paid Women in S&P 500 Settle for Less with 18% Gender Gap
Even the few women who've managed to advance to the C-suite don't get equal pay. Last year, of the five best-paid executives at each of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index companies, 198 were women, ...
Why So Little Hiring With So Many Jobs Open Now: Peter Orszag Column
An odd puzzle is taking shape in the labor market: Over the past three years, the number of job openings has risen almost 50 percent, but actual hiring has gone up by less than 5 percent. Companies ...
AOL CEO Apologizes For Public Firing Of Executive
AOL Inc. Chief Executive Tim Armstrong said in a staff memo on Tuesday that he made a mistake in publicly firing an employee last Friday in front of a thousand workers. A recording had been leaked to ...