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By Paul Chernish I took my smartphone out of my jacket to turn it off during a meeting. The person next to me saw it and began her mantra. "Oh, a Galaxy! ... I've got the newer one", she quipped, as ...
- galaxy | pen | resume | smartphone
AJ Blog – Awesome Jobs
By Paul Chernish I truly enjoy my job. I'd almost call it an "awesome" job. Almost. You see, we're in the midst of the social morphing and colloquialtivity of routine English communications. In other words, we've tempered the actual meaning of words ...
- amazing | awesome jobs | career | words
AJ Blog – Staffing Tricks, Not Treats in U.S.
By Paul Chernish In 2009, an amendment was made to the Ontario Employment Standards Act, setting off financial alarms at temp agencies across the Province. But everything seems to have worked out just fine. Keeping it simple, the intent of the Bill ...
AJ Blog – Happy Holidays in the Workplace
By Paul Chernish Back in ‘76, I must have slept on a bed stuffed with four leaf clovers. I was a full time student at the U of W and I had a high-paying, full time job at Chrysler. This was the ...
AJ BLOG: “Tell me about yourself”
By Paul Chernish Yep. We're gonna cover the ever-so-popular "Tell me about yourself" request during an interview. But let's have some fun with it - it's really not as big a deal as many people think. The key is this, and only ...
AJ BLOG – My, how resumes have changed
By Paul Chernish Comedian Louis C K, one of my favorites, made a great point to Conan O'Brien about how "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy". It's worth a click. And it also got me thinking about just how much easier it is ...
- computer | resume | software | typewriter
AJ Blog: The “temp” myth
By Paul Chernish At Alexander Jade, our focus in on permanent (and occasional, long-term contract) positions. But having done "temp" work in the past, I'd like to clarify a few things about the relationship between temporary staffing firms and the people ...
AJ BLOG – Commercial jobs
By Paul Chernish I like Swiss Chalet chicken very much. Now that I've made it clear that Swiss Chalet is A-OK in my books, I'm afraid I'm going to have to call them out on their latest TV commercial. You know, the ...
- actor | chicken | commercial | nhl | roast
A J BLOG – Working at a Self Serve – Cheap Gas
By Paul Chernish Back in the day, which, in my case, was so long ago that the expression "back in the day" wasn't even around, I had a job as a cashier at a self-serve gas station. Captivating, no? Well, yes. Because ...
A J BLOG – Recruiting Talent for “new” Windsor
By Paul Chernish Having been lured from the staffing industry into the "dot.com" world a few years ago, I've learned that, whatever your career may be, you have to adjust to change. And now that I'm recruiting skilled people for the ...