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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There are all different ways to lose a job, but when you are in politics, one of the most reliable ways to be out work happens after your boss, the politician, loses an election. That’s what happened to Emmy Casa, of Mt. Holly, who operated as senior constituent services coordinator for U.S. Congressman John Adler, a Democrat, from Marlton.
Adler lost his Congressional spot in November after just one term, unseated by former Eagles football player Jon Runyan. When Adler was out of work, so was Casa. A few months later, on April 4, Adler died unexpectedly. “Such a young man,” Casa said.
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Bobby Johnson
It was insane Tuesday at the McDonald’s tucked into Children’s Hospital at 34th and Spruce Sts. yesterday. The place was jammed with people, most of them African American, who were looking for work. (Didn’t see too many kids with wearing Penn regalia.)
In a huge publicity drive, McDonald’s trumpeted that it would try to hire 50,000 employees on Tuesday across the nation and including 1,325 for 284 stores in the greater Philadelphia area, including Allentown, Reading, Delaware, Atlantic County and Trenton N.J. There
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Less than a week after a Los Angeles woman filed a lawsuit against popular online dating service Match.com claiming that she was attacked by a man she met through its website, the company has decided to begin performing background checks on potential members using a national sex offender database, the Los Angeles Times reports. The new Match.com background check policy is expected to be implemented in 60 to 90 days.
The Times reports that the woman who filed the lawsuit – known only as Jane Doe and described as an Ivy League graduate working in film and television – was on a second date with her alleged attacker when he followed her home and allegedly assaulted her. She
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We’re well into April already, so it’s kind of depressing to think that women, on average and across the nation, have had to work this long into the year to equal wages that men earned in 2010. Today, Tuesday, is known as Equal Pay Day for that reason. Nationally, women working full-time are paid an average of only 77 cents for every dollar paid to full-time working men. The good news is that gap is narrowing — at about half a cent a year. So let’s all look forward 2058, when everything will be equal.
All this research comes from the National Partnership for Women & Families, in conjunction with the American Association of University Women and is based on census data.
In Pennsylvania, women earn an average of $35,301 per year, while a man working full time brings home $46,747. You ca
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