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Our new series, “Parenting and the Workplace,” will cover a wide array of workplace challenges and triumphs faced by professionals balancing family life with career. From introducing your pregnancy to co-workers to balancing travel for business and family vacation time, we’ve got it covered. Series narrated by SkillStorm employees from our SkillStorm offices around the [...]
Posted by SkillStorm on September 9th, 2010 under Parenting and the Workplace, SkillStorm, Work/Life Balance Tags: maternity, motherhood, parenting, pregnancy, woman •
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What kind of blog series dedicated to Burger King® would this be if we didn’t write about the recent news of the nation’s second largest hamburger chain being acquired by private investment firm 3G Capital in a deal valued at $3.26 billion?!
We waited a few days after the announcement to get some more details and [...]
Posted by SkillStorm on September 8th, 2010 under Business, Hot Topics, LinkedIn, News, SkillStorm Tags: Burger King, LinkedIn, Networking, News, SkillStorm •
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We appreciate all of the feedback we’ve gotten so far – thank you! We are so happy to have your support on LinkedIn during our “Ultimate LinkedIn Challenge.” If this is your first time reading one of our entries for the series, here’s a recap of what we’re trying to accomplish: get an employee started [...]
Posted by SkillStorm on August 27th, 2010 under Business, Hiring, LinkedIn, Resources, SkillStorm, Social Network Tags: Burger King, Business, LinkedIn, Networking, Recruiter, SkillStorm, steve jobs •
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Our new series, “Parenting and the Workplace,” will cover a wide array of workplace challenges and triumphs faced by professionals balancing family life with career. From introducing your pregnancy to co-workers to balancing travel for business and family vacation time, we’ve got it covered. Series narrated by SkillStorm employees from our SkillStorm offices around the [...]
Posted by SkillStorm on August 25th, 2010 under Parenting and the Workplace, SkillStorm, Workplace Tags: family, parenting, SkillStorm, tips, Workplace •
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Check out our updated stats for Week 3 of our Challenge:
We’ve used several features on LinkedIn to reach our goal of starting an employee at a Fortune 1000 Company (Burger King®) in 90 days or less! What have we done?
- Posted on LinkedIn groups
- Reached out to mutual connections
- Connected with BK employees
- Following company [...]
Posted by SkillStorm on August 24th, 2010 under Business, LinkedIn, SkillStorm, Social Network Tags: Business, LinkedIn, Networking, SkillStorm •
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In today’s tight economy, it seems that all businesses (in one way or another) are working towards the same goal: cutting costs by saving time and money. What can organizations do to find a means to meet these needs? Consulting offers a perfect solution.
This whitepaper will answer several questions, including: What do consultants do? How [...]
Posted by SkillStorm on August 23rd, 2010 under Hot Topics, Resources, SkillStorm, Whitepaper Tags: consulting, SkillStorm •
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If you haven’t been following this series, here’s a little recap:
The marketing department here at SkillStorm is in the midst of something we’ve titled “The Ultimate LinkedIn Challenge.” What is it, you ask? We’ve given ourselves 90 days or less to get an employee started at a Fortune 1000 Company (in this case, Burger King®) [...]
Posted by SkillStorm on August 20th, 2010 under Business, SkillStorm, Social Network Tags: Burger King, Business, LinkedIn, Networking, SkillStorm •
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Our series, “Ask a Recruiter,” gives all of you out there the opportunity to ask all of the questions you’ve always wanted to ask about hiring, interviewing, the job hunt, recruiters, career tips and more! In return for your questions, one of our experienced recruiters will answer them on our blog each week.
This week’s question [...]
Posted by SkillStorm on August 11th, 2010 under Ask a Recruiter, Career Tips, College Training, Employment, SkillStorm •
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If you read yesterday’s Ultimate LinkedIn Challenge update, you know we dedicated our efforts to reaching out to all sorts of LinkedIn groups we felt would be interested in this challenge, ranging from groups within our industry, alumni-related, marketing and sales, local professionals and more!
This morning, we arrived in the office bright and early and [...]
Posted by SkillStorm on August 10th, 2010 under Business, Hot Topics, LinkedIn, Recruiting, SkillStorm, Social Network Tags: Burger King, Business, LinkedIn, Networking, Recruiting, SkillStorm •
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Today’s update for the Ultimate LinkedIn Challenge can be summed up in one all too familiar saying:
“It’s not just what you know, it’s who you know.”
Our tactic of choice on Day 7 of our challenge was reaching out to several kinds of groups on LinkedIn: within our industry, alumni-related, marketing aficionados, local professionals and [...]
Posted by SkillStorm on August 9th, 2010 under Business, Hot Topics, LinkedIn, SkillStorm, Social Network Tags: Burger King, Business, connections, LinkedIn, network, Networking, SkillStorm •
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