Wouldn't it be great if filling positions was as easy as going into your closet and choosing what to wear to work. Imagine if each day, you had to go and buy everything you needed to wear for that day. Can't filling positions operate the same way? Keep your top candidates in the pipeline. Here's 1 way of doing it.

To build an emotional connection with potential hires, companies like Microsoft and Shell and organizations like the New York City Police Department are using e-mail career newsletters that convey company, employee, and career information. The free e-reads offer insider-only company and career information that helps build emotional connections with candidates. Like hotel, grocer, and drugstore loyalty programs, career newsletters give job hunters the lowdown on what’s up inside. Rewards aren’t cash back, but regular paychecks.

Cliff, thanks for sharing, thanks for caring.

I find it impossible to work a full day, live a full life and still have time to surf the internet for information that can make me smarter (or sound smarter anyway). That's why I subscribe to Workforce Week and other eblasts that come right into my Inbox each day. It's like bringing the surfing to your blanket in the sand.

Here's something on what's going on in the hiring world. Thank you Todd Raphael, whoever you are--

Hiring: Several organizations are aggressively wooing employees this month. Alcoa is offering $1,500 hiring incentives (spread throughout the employee's first year of employment) to skilled machinists who will work in Fullerton, California, and elsewhere making parts for Lockheed's Joint Strike Fighter and Boeing's cargo planes. In Canada, the coffee and baked goods chain Tim Hortons held a job fair across Alberta involving every Hortons restaurant. It was the first province-wide job fair at all full-service Tim Hortons. Schneider National is offering $2,000 to $4,000 bonuses to truck drivers who will work in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, area. The Las Vegas Sun reports that Clark County School District needs hundreds of teachers, particularly in special education, before school starts. Ikea is recruiting hundreds of employees at the kart-racing facility F1 Boston in Braintree, Massachusetts. In Long Beach, California, two Army recruiters bicycled down the beach talking to people about the military. As they spotted the tattoo of an Army veteran and asked him if his son was interested in signing up, a small airplane flew down the Long Beach coast, trailing a banner that advertised jobs at Raytheon, a defense contractor.

Well, here I am, my first blog. I can't believe I haven't done this before! A great big welcome to our new client....MHRI.... and for all of our out-of-town clients....here is one of my personal faves...the Jones Beach Concert Schedule...You've never seen a concert until you've seen one at the beach on a beautiful summer nite...There's still some summer left...if you're in New York at all come check out a concert on the beach...I'll meet you there!....Michele.


Brian Wilson
August 13, 2005Saturday, 8:00 PM
Jones Beach TheatreWantagh, NY

Motley CrueSum 41
August 16, 2005Tuesday, 6:00 PM
Jones Beach TheatreWantagh, NY

Tori Amos
August 17, 2005Wednesday, 7:30 PM
Jones Beach TheatreWantagh, NY

50 Cent
August 19, 2005Friday, 7:00 PM
Jones Beach TheatreWantagh, NY

WKTU Beatstock
August 20, 2005Saturday, 6:00 PM
Jones Beach TheatreWantagh, NY

GigantourMegadeth
August 23, 2005Tuesday, 6:00 PM
Jones Beach TheatreWantagh, NY

Allman Brothers
August 24, 2005Wednesday, 7:00 PM
Jones Beach TheatreWantagh, NY

Meat Loaf
August 25, 2005Thursday, 8:00 PM
Jones Beach TheatreWantagh, NY

Hall & OatesTodd Rundgren
August 26, 2005Friday, 8:00 PM
Jones Beach TheatreWantagh, NY

Avril Lavigne
August 27, 2005Saturday, 7:00 PM
Jones Beach TheatreWantagh, NY

Journey
August 28, 2005Sunday, 8:00 PM
Jones Beach TheatreWantagh, NY

Marc AnthonyAlejandro Fernandez
September 3, 2005Saturday, 7:00 PM
Jones Beach TheatreWantagh, NY

The Killers
September 30, 2005Friday, 8:00 PM
Jones Beach TheatreWantagh, NY

Well, its a heat wave in New York and you can see the beautiful view we have from our office window. You're looking west at Madison Square Garden with a clear view to the water.

And its not just hot outside, things are heating up at BRANDEMiX. We are happy to welcome our new client MEMORIAL HOSPITAL of RHODE ISLAND into the BRANDEMiX family.

Fran, Joyce and the gang seem really great-- they have to be because those are the only kinds of clients we work will.

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