http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/rss/huddle.php RSS Feed for The Corporate Playbook Huddle en-us Sun, 1 Aug 2010 04:05:08 MDT http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/rss/logo_rss.jpg http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/rss/huddle.php 144 30 In the spring of 1989 Wendy Kopp was a senior at Princeton University who had her sights set on being a New York City school teacher. But without a graduate degree in education or a traditional teacher certification, it was nearly impossible to break into the system. So she applied for a job at Morgan Stanley instead. Thinking back to the bureaucratic hurdles of getting a job in a public school, Ms. Kopp tells me it "seemed more http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=656 656 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:31:21 MDT Job interviews can be nerve-racking. You have one shot to convince a potential employer that they should hire you instead of dozens (and maybe hundreds) of other qualified candidates. In this tough job market, a man has to be on top of his game during interviews if he wants a chance to land the job. A few months ago, I interviewed for a job I had been hoping to get since I was a student in law school. I got through the first round of int http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=655 655 Tue, 6 Jul 2010 06:32:50 MDT The number of job openings grew in April, indicating a continued loosening of the job market after the worst downturn in decades. Employers had a seasonally-adjusted 3.1 million openings on the last business day of April, up about 300,000 from March and about 800,000 from last summer's trough. Industries seeing the most growth included education and health services, which saw openings rise 7% from last month, and professional and b http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=654 654 Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:21:50 MDT Tell me a story. A writer friend once told me that every Hollywood movie has a pivotal moment at the 30th minute, where the hero is changed for the rest of the movie. After paying close attention for a few movies afterward, I was surprised to discover he was right. There is a successful method to a movie script, and it’s not too different for a successful resume. Your resume should tell a story, but not just any story. It must be yours, a http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=653 653 Wed, 9 Jun 2010 06:16:11 MDT Samuel Eto'o loves money. He loves it so much that he almost blew his move to Inter Milan last year by demanding a 15 percent cut of the transfer fee and threatening legal action against Barcelona. [Photos: See Samuel Eto'o in action] The Cameroon striker's unashamed passion for the green paper makes this tidbit of news even more surprising: He has parted with around $1.3m, buying each of his colleagues a per http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=652 652 Wed, 9 Jun 2010 06:12:34 MDT When Ed Harvey returned to his Mystic, Conn., home on the night of Friday, April 23, he immediately fired up his computer and navigated to the web page of the University of North Carolina's baseball team. His son Matt was pitching that night against Clemson, and Mr. Harvey wanted to listen to the game's online broadcast. As he listened, he didn't know what to think. In throwing a complete game to beat Clemson, http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=651 651 Wed, 9 Jun 2010 05:59:13 MDT Eddy Curry(notes) made a shade over $10 million this year as a member of the New York Knicks. Normally, I'd have said "playing for the New York Knicks," but that's a bit of an overstatement as Curry saw time in only seven games this season. Somehow, that's an improvement as the big guy appeared in just three contests the previous year. Baby steps, you guys. Despite that enormous salary — and t http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=650 650 Wed, 26 May 2010 06:38:22 MDT Kelley McDonald has always loved exploring new terrain. In home videos as early as age 3, "I'm always off by myself, looking under rocks or catching and studying bees," she says. Today, at 18, the Apple Valley, Minn., college student is studying for a science career in the fast-growing field of nanotechnology—working with materials at the molecular or atomic level. That makes her one of the lucky ones—a young http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=649 649 Wed, 26 May 2010 06:05:28 MDT One of the things that can befuddle managers, even experienced ones, is how to make small talk with the big boss. When you are talking about someone who has authority over you, be it your boss's boss or the CEO, the word "small" becomes relative. Anything involving a boss can have a big impact. Conversation with a superior can be fraught with peril but it can also be a great opportunity. Peril comes from the fea http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=648 648 Wed, 26 May 2010 06:00:48 MDT Life After Sports Few professional sports players end up with the star power to live out their years on their reputations. Meet some athletes who've turned what they've learned into a successful second career Click on the link to see what they are doing now: http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/01/0130_lifeafter_sports/index_01.htm http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=647 647 Fri, 21 May 2010 08:03:30 MDT Are video résumés the next best thing to being there? Companies are offering multimedia capabilities that go way beyond the old one-page paper résumé. Job seekers can upload videos, portfolios and even PowerPoint presentations all in an effort to impress employers before actually meeting them. In a 2008 survey, only 24% of senior executives from the country's largest 1,000 companies http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=646 646 Thu, 20 May 2010 07:10:59 MDT The news for job seekers has been something of a mixed bag recently: while the economy added almost half a million jobs in the last two months, the encouraging signs have tempted more people back into an active job search, driving the official unemployment rate to 9.9 percent. Translated into plain English: companies are hiring again, but job seekers are facing more competition than ever before. Faced with that reality, people are http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=645 645 Wed, 19 May 2010 11:40:38 MDT Ryan Scaife couldn't find an internship that fused his major in business administration with his passion for graphic design. So he created his own. Interested in sports management, the 22-year-old emailed marketing directors for a few minor-league baseball teams near his hometown, Philipsburg, Pa., in mid-April. He asked them if they would take him on as a graphic-design intern and expose him to the business and management side o http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=644 644 Tue, 18 May 2010 06:22:57 MDT A year ago we called Adam Guren — age 28 — the Lebron James of trading. Given his consistent success like King James, Adam was the obvious choice for the top spot on our first annual list. After graduating Duke in 2003, Adam played professional soccer for a season with the Cleveland Force before starting in the prestigious training program at First New York Securities. 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The NBA’s career scoring leader and center on the Los Angeles Lakers’ 1980s “Showtime” teams said Wednesday there’s a disturbing sense of entitlement among many of today’s young pros. “They get precocious kids from high school who think they’re rock stars— ‘Where’s my $30 million?’ ” said Abdul-Jabbar, who was in Omaha to spe http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=640 640 Thu, 13 May 2010 07:39:27 MDT I played professional baseball for 9 years and am involved with the #1 Health Science company in the world ( 3rd party study of over 1600 companies) If you are looking for financial freedom and Health this is it....rated #13th best place to work in recent edition of OUTSIDE magazine in the US. 96 athletes from the past Winter Olympics were on USANA products check it out [b]moles.usana.com[/b] or even contact me via email [b]mulhernry http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=639 639 Wed, 12 May 2010 16:23:29 MDT I played professional baseball for 9 years and am involved with the #1 Health Science company in the world ( 3rd party study of over 1600 companies) If you are looking for financial freedom and Health this is it....rated #13th best place to work in recent issue of OUTSIDE magazine in the US. 96 athletes from the past Winter Olympics were on USANA products check it out [b]moles.usana.com[/b] or even contact me via email [b]mulhernryan@g http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=638 638 Wed, 12 May 2010 13:53:26 MDT Four years ago, Mardy Gilyard(notes) had his athletic scholarship revoked, was working four jobs in order to pay a $10,000 debt to the school and spent his nights homeless in a 2002 Pontiac Grand Am. Now, he's an NFL wide receiver. After being kicked out of the University of Cincinnati for academic reasons following his freshman year, Gilyard wanted to return home to Florida, a move which likely would have ended his football car http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=637 637 Wed, 12 May 2010 09:24:52 MDT