Rowlett close to hiring city manager (The Rowlett Lakeshore Times) DeSoto assistant city manager Lynda Humble has emerged as the top candidate to become the next city manager in Rowlett. Rowlett Mayor John E. Harper announced Tuesday at the end of the city council meeting that Humble is Rowlett's "sole finalist" for the job. |
About Two Dozen To Lose Jobs At BMW Performance Center (WSPA Spartanburg) The business communications manager for BMW North America, Jan Ehlen says they announced to the employees yesterday the jobs that will be affected. |
Assurant Specialty Property Announces Plans to Increase Staff at Florence, S.C. Service Center (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Assurant Specialty Property said today its Florence hazard insurance service center plans to hire as many as 100 additional employees over the next four to five months to accommodate the growth of its creditor-placed homeowners and insurance tracking business. |
Premier League: was Roy Keane right to resign as Sunderland manager? (Guardian Unlimited) Roy Keane spent 27 months in charge at the Stadium of Light, but after publicly questioning his own ability as a manager, should he have quit? |
New city manager on job Monday (Merced Sun-Star) City Manager John Bramble will take his seat alongside the City Council on Monday, beginning his command of Merced at a time of unprecedented challenges. |
Mr. Know-It-All: Call-Center Etiquette, Offensive Podcasts, Awkward Transactions (Wired News) Dear Mr. Know-It-All, is it cool to ask call-center operators what country they're in? I'm not a bigot or opposed to outsourcing, but I like to know who I'm dealing with. Fire away with the geolocation query, but be wary of how you broach the topic. Call-center operators deal with countless xenophobic jerks, who typically follow the "Where are you located?" question with a stream of ... |
Tennessee: Rehab center honored (Chattanooga Times Free Press) The Tennessee Rehabilitation Center here was recently designated the most improved center of the year. |
Willing and able if a job is there (Louisville Courier-Journal) Children's clothing maker Hanna Andersson empties a lot of cardboard boxes at its Jefferson Riverport distribution center -- 2,000 to 3,000 a day, says manager Michael Lamb. Fortunately, the center has Aaron Fentress on the job. |
For career centers, business is booming (St. Joseph News-Press) Missouri Career Centers are dealing with an unemployment crisis. In Northwest Missouri, the number of job seekers is up 25 percent from last year. |
Lonoke chamber, FBLA members take part in expo (The Lonoke Democrat) Lonoke High School Future Business Leaders of America and the Lonoke Chamber of Commerce held it’s first American Enterprise Expo at the Lonoke Community Center in November. |