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It’s Graduation time again. You know, Pomp and Circumstance or “Pomp and no jobs perchance” for many. Whether Parent or lucky Grad, there is lots of anticipation for when and where that first job will materialize. For one neighbor of mine, it took their son 9 months to land a job. He was actually very lucky as he landed a job with a major insurance company doing what he was actually trained for. For others,

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Food and gift retailer Harry and David said today it plans on hiring 1,000 temporary workers to staff an Ohio call center.

After outsourcing its customer service for the past year, Harry and David said it will reopen its Hebron-based call center and hire for jobs to cover the holiday shopping season next fall and winter.

The Hebron facility has been operating with a small group of managers and support staff, but they will soon be joined by thousands of temporary workers.

Harry and David’s CEO said she was disappointed by the quality of work from the company contracted to handle its customer service.

“I am pleased to announce that we will be re-opening our call center facility in Hebron, Ohio, which will operate in conjunction with our Medford, Ore., call center,” said Kay Hong, interim CEO, in a letter to employees.

She continued, “We are confident that we will be able to improve customer service this year by ensuring that Harry & David representatives on the phone lines have more experience with our products and our brand, and by eliminating many of the issues that drove customer service calls in the first place.”

The Columbus Dispatch reports that Harry & David has gone through many changes in the past year, filing for bankruptcy last month and trying to move forward with a plan to reorganize and reduce debt.

The company has a store at Easton Town Center and at the outlet malls in Jeffersonville, Burbank and Aurora.

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Spring. It’s that time of year again. Flowers are blooming, birds are singing and your parents are telling you to get a job. For some its a break between college semesters and for others it’s the cold hard reality of “time to get a job”. Whatever your reality (and both are covered in today’s post), you need to make good use of your time. It’s really competitive out there, so you need to get there first, have a trick up your sleeve, be incredibly lucky or have amazing connections. So, assumin

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If you haven’t conducted an interview by Skype yet, I’m willing to bet that it’s coming to your laptop screen or iPhone soon.

With gas prices skyrocketing and plane tickets more costly too, employers are increasingly looking to Skype and a handful of online interviewing sites and tools to conduct the first interview. Video interviews on Skype are used to “get more comfortable with the candidate” and see how they handle face-to-face communication and technology tools, said Matt Berndt, director of communication career services at the University of Texas.  Some also use a recorded video interview so they can be certain they’re using the exact same questions with all potential candidates.

“Telephone interviews are going to video interviews” via Skype or another mode, Berndt said. He offers some s

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“When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.”

I’ve posted lots of links to the companies on Fortune‘s Best Companies to Work for list, typically running from top to bottom. But then I got to thinking, what about those companies on the list that are hiring the most people? Seems like a good idea (to me at least), so today’s post will focus on those companies. For those interested in how Fortune derives the list, take a look at “Criteria for the Best Companies to Work For“. And for those wondering if it really matters at all, take a look at “Does the Fortune 100 best companies to work for really matter anymore ?“. Drop me a line an

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