The 10 hardest jobs to fill

About 49 percent of U.S. employers have experienced difficulty filling mission-critical positions, according to the more than 1,300 employers that participated in the seventh annual ManpowerGroup Talent Shortage Survey.

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Strange Resume

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Chris Lawson chimes in on 850 KOA Denver News Radio about strange resumes people submit. People have submitted resumes stating their family works for the mob to printing their resume on cute little pink bunny paper.
Listen in to hear the full discussion on strange resumes.

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Resume Inflation not going away

Résumé legitimacy moved to the forefront this week after Yahoo parted ways with CEO Scott Thompson after just four months on the job when it was revealed that his official biography included a college degree he never received.

The bio listed two degrees - in accounting and computer science - from Stonehill College, a small school near Boston. The revelation that Thompson never received a computer science degree raised questions about why the accomplishment had periodically appeared on his bio in the years he ran PayPal, an online payment service owned by eBay Inc.

Chris Lawson, president of the Texas-based Eli Daniel Group, a full-service staffing and recruiting firm that specializes in job placement, said résumé padding is prevalent in today's job workforce, especially among applicants who don't have a degree.

Read more: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/business/resume-inflation-not-going-away-1/nN6Xk/

Three Digital Marketing Initiatives That Complement Your SEO Program

"While SEO will always be a good bet for generating long-term value," writes John-Henry Scherck at Renegade Search, "it doesn't necessarily have to be the only aspect of a good digital marketing campaign."
There's no reason to sit around waiting for SEO to take effect when you can bolster your burgeoning optimization program with short-term creative initiatives.

Scherck offers a number of actionable suggestions, such as:

Read more: http://www.marketingprofs.com/short-articles/2595/three-digital-marketing-initiatives-that-complement-your-seo-program#ixzz20Q4hRJES

Are social media making the resume obsolete?

Facebook plans to launch its own jobs board, working with some existing sites to let users search listings, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.

Read the Entire Story here: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/11/tech/social-media/facebook-jobs-resume/index.html?hpt=hp_c2


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US employers add 80,000 jobs as economy struggles

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Chris Lawson featured on WTVN, Columbus, Ohio talks about the 2012 June job numbers and the effct on Small Businesses across the country.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. employers added only 80,000 jobs in June, a third straight month of weak hiring that shows the economy is still struggling three years after the recession ended. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent, the Labor Department said Friday. The economy added an average of just 75,000 jobs a month in the April-June quarter — one-third of the pace in the first quarter. For the first six months of 2012, employers added an average of 150,000 jobs a month. That's fewer than the 161,000 average for the first half of 2011. Weaker job creation has caused consumers to pull back on spending.

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Chris Lawson, CEO of Eli Daniel Group, a Texas-based job staffing/consulting firm.

Chris Lawson Featured in the Washington Post

Chris Lawson, chief executive of the Eli Daniel Group, a Dallas-based staffing firm, said the jobs picture remains muddled. “We’re getting into this wait-and-see trap,” he said.

Lawson said that some employers are worried about what is going to happen in the presidential election, which will determine how the health-care law plays out.

“Small businesses are thinking about the new health-care landscape,”  Chris Lawson said. “They ask themselves, ‘Am I going to add staff or wait and see what shakes out with this election?’ On the data, there seems to be more negative news than positive. My guess is we’ll see unemployment remaining the same, or that number could go up a bit. I don’t see us all of a sudden starting to turn the corner.”

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Obama Care and Small Business WBAP Features Chris Lawson

Chris Lawson Featured on WBAP

Will Obama Care run small businesses out of business? Chris Lawson, CEO, Eli Daniel Group talks about the impending changes that could impede the growth of small businesses across the nation.

"We are in a time right now that we really don't know what's going to happen, nor has it been explained" explains Chris Lawson.