Month: October, 2007

“Jobs Are Owned by the Company, You Own Your Career.”

22 October, 2007 (14:59) | mpnThoughts

I recently came across a quote by the granddaddy of all self-helpers, Earl Nightengale, that’s worth repeating here: “The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you’re working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving forces of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the [...]

Is the Job Market Turning?

22 October, 2007 (09:02) | mpnThoughts

A friend who follows the financial markets for a living asked me recently if the local job market for the people I work with is tightening up. I replied that I hadn’t seen any signs of it, and if the continued flow of job leads—and good ones at that—that comes through our job lead programs [...]

Email: Beware the Spear Phishers

22 October, 2007 (08:59) | mpnThoughts

You may have seen that a new Trojan horse virus has hit the Monster recruiting site. As Hiawatha Bray reported in the WSJ.com: “The attack on Monster Worldwide Inc., a New York company with its operations centre in Maynard, was apparently intended to acquire millions of email addresses of Monster users. These could then be [...]