VanDyck Leaves Front Office Team; Two Full-Time Positions Now Available (OurSports Central) Snappers Director of Media & Community Relations/Marketing Erik VanDyck is leaving the franchise after two and a half years. VanDyck has accepted a position with Menards in their management trainee program at the Muskegon, Michigan location. |
Job Hunt Tougher In Tough Times (Times Record) Looking for a job in a recession means the normal rules are even more important as the competition for fewer jobs increases. Although recent college graduates may find a decent market for entry-level positions, mid-level staff members may face a much tighter market. |
Film review: What Just Happened (Guardian Unlimited) Movies about moviemaking constitute a virtual cinematic genre; there are far more of them made now than either musicals or westerns. Robert De Niro played Monroe Stahr, a fictionalised version of the MGM producer Irving Thalberg, in the Elia Kazan version of Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon. He now plays a fictionalised version of producer Art Linson in a film adapted by Linson from his ... |
Rentokil replaces finance director (Guardian Unlimited) Rentokil Initial, the struggling pest control, postal and cleaning group, has completed a management purge with the replacement of finance director Andrew Macfarlane. His departure comes eight months after three former ICI executives were parachuted into key boardroom positions in an effort to turn around the company's fortunes. The new directors — John McAdam as chairman, Alan Brown as ... |
Open thread: In the spirit of self-criticism (Guardian Unlimited) Open thread: An email from Simon Heffer berates Daily Telegraph staff for their style and spelling errors. What mistakes get you going? |
New media education & training centre to set up for working adults (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Philippines News) SINGAPORE: Train and retrain —— that is what the Workforce Development Agency (WDA) hopes the new Media Continuing Education and Training Centre will do for 3,000 professionals in the industry over the next five years. And the government is prepared to invest S$40 million to set this up. |
INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK: A journey to the top (Sunday Herald) She was little more than an infant when her father launched his travel business in a Barrhead shop. Now 34, Sharon Munro is taking the reins of the family business she watched blossom into a multi-million-pound concern. |
BSkyB takes fight to keep ITV stake to court of appeal (Guardian Unlimited) BSkyB is to take its battle to hold on to a controversial 17.9% stake in ITV to the court of appeal. By Mark Sweney |
New media education and training centre to set up for working adults (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Philippines News) SINGAPORE: Train and retrain —— that is what the Workforce Development Agency (WDA) hopes the new Media Continuing Education and Training Centre will do for 3,000 professionals in the industry over the next five years. |
SMA, WDA, Ngee Ann Polytechnic ink agreement on media training centre (Channel NewsAsia) SINGAPORE: MediaCorp's Singapore Media Academy (SMA) will train and retrain media professionals and working adults who want to switch over to the media industry. |