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Is it time for Australian media powers to draw up a code of conduct to deal with spin doctor demands?
Championing the media and their moguls may not be fashionable right now given the UK’s phone hacking scandal, and Labor and the Greens calling for their own inquiry off the back of it.
Nevertheless public relations spin is endemic and enduring.
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What do employers really want?
After interviewing 25 hiring managers I am still slightly confused.
We asked all the questions anyone applying for a job should ask a prospective employer, hoping we’d find some simple – even sexily digestible– answers.
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Paul says:
A great article and good passionate discussion. Its a shame there is so much tension out there between operations and HR. As a job seeker, you will be better served if you understand there is a process to follow, and HR has a role. How important you believe that role… Read more »
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Hacene Amrani says:
Is there any sacred law from the HR Bible to follow and find best people, I ve been Interviewed twice and been successfull both but never been given the job, makes me asking myself is there any special thing to do after successful interview, or may be is there any… Read more »
Few things make me more nervous than the morning of a job interview.
I can’t relax. I wake up too early and change my outfit three or four times. I forget how to iron and by the time I get there it takes a strong coffee for me to look alert.
So it’s with huge admiration that I watch Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s calm and poised exterior as she fronts up to what is potentially the longest, most in-depth and important interview of her life.
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pat says:
Eric I recommend that you read all the previous comments - Your so dumb that I cannot believe you are real person - You believe that a racist is going to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Do you also believe in the bogey man? Big foot? The earth is… Read more »
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Eric says:
Pat, why are you so desperate to deny Sotomayor’s bias? Is it because you’re a racist too? Read more »
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