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Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:16 PM
The search is on for individuals interested in becoming roller coaster operators, cotton candy makers and funnel cake fryers. Six
Flags Over Georgia, the largest theme park in the Southeast, is looking
to fill 2,400 seasonal positions to help kick off the park’s 45 anniversary season when it opens on Saturday, March 17. Interested applicants must complete an online application at sixflagsjobs.com. Applicants
are encouraged to complete applications by Friday, January 20 to be
considered for an invitation-only hiring event that will take place in
late January. |
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Todd Semrau: Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2012 3:45 PM
Things
have been bustling over here at Urban Eats Consulting Group. The New
Year has brought lots of opportunity and change. So let’s get right to
the meat and potatoes;
Food Trucks Thirst for Commissary Space
Are
you a commercial realtor with an interest in banking a few commissions?
Or, do you know a commercial developer sitting on an empty strip
center? For Pete’s sake, let us know because we have many food truck
clients searching for kitchen commissary space. The ideal space would
be under 1500 square feet, located within or on the perimeter, offering
parking for a food truck and be reasonably priced. |
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Posted on Friday, December 30, 2011 11:37 PM
Former Corporate Manager Reveals Which Companies
Can Turn on a
DimeCompanies that lack agility can’t compete. Agility is
the bottom-line competitive advantage in these days of unprecedented turbulence,
uncertainty and volatility.That’s the opinion of
Mike Richardson, a former corporate manager and author ofWheel$pin: The
Agile Executive’s Manifesto(www.mydrivingseat.com), and his point is
that it’s agility that drives a company’s ability to compete in the business
world. “Everyone in the business press today
seems to write endlessly about the challenges of the current economy without
acknowledging the fact there are companies that are doing quite well, thank you,
despite the economic downturn,” Richardson said. |
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Matthew Cardinale, News Editor, The Atlanta Progressive News: Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2011 5:18 PM
A number of high-profile campaign
contributors to Mayor Kasim Reed have
received airport contracts, raising
concerns about possible pay-to-play,
even while Reed's Administration guards
all aspects of the bidding process with
great secrecy.
At
stake is who will benefit from tens of
millions of dollars in revenue from
one of the nation's busiest airports. |
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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 10:14 PM
To Find Work, You Must Go
Digital, Recruiting Expert SaysThe nation’s unemployment rate may be inching downward, but
the out-of-work figures have remained in the 9.0 to 9.2 percent range since
April 2011, according to Bureau of Labor statistics.
An estimated 32,000
job seekers found work in October, but that still leaves 13.9 million reported
unemployed, which means a lot of people are competing for the same
job.
So how do you stand out in that crowd?
“It used to be that
executives could network their way onto the CEO’s schedule, maybe on the golf
course or a chance meeting at lunch or a ball game,” says Colleen Aylward, a
recruitment strategy expert and author of, |
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Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 9:37 PM
Businessman Reveals How Balancing Giving and Taking
Can Help Make You
Successful
Trying to be successful in a tight marketplace can bring
out the best and the worst in people.
While we all tend to hate being
taken advantage of, we rarely grouse about taking advantage of others if it
benefits us. Joe Scott believes this vicious cycle is what is killing business
and actually hurting our chances for success.
"In life and in business,
there are givers, there are takers and then there are those who balance in
between," said Scott, an entrepreneur who started with a truck and a tool box to
become a successful contractor and real estate developer. |
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Posted on Friday, November 18, 2011 11:09 PM
Tap
into the Power of Thanks: Six Effective (and Affordable) Ways to
Improve Your Organization’s Morale, Motivation, and the Bottom Line
In
most organizations, daily operations are so busy and stressful that
showing gratitude is fairly low on the list of priorities. But according
to Todd Patkin, cultivating an organizational culture of appreciation
can be the best possible strategy for growing your business. If you’re like most Americans, you’re gearing up to celebrate the
Thanksgiving holiday with your loved ones. |
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Posted on Friday, November 18, 2011 4:39 PM
Mayor Kasim Reed to Sign Legislation Enabling Building Permit Reform and Enterprise Fund Mayor Kasim Reed will hold a press conference to discuss the
Enterprise Fund for the Atlanta Office of Buildings and Ordinance. The press
conference will be held at City Hall on November 29, 2011 at 9:15
am. Commissioner James Shelby and Don Rosenthal, Director of the Office of Buildings,
Michael Paris, president and CEO of the Council for Quality Growth and John
Ferguson, president of the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors will also be on
hand to discuss the importance of this legislation. |
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Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2011 12:22 PM
Inaugurated on October 26, 2011 with a reception bringing together 450 people,
in the presence of the Ambassador of France to the United States, the Mayor of
Atlanta, the President of Georgia Tech, several elected officials of the Paris
region and numerous local figures, the series of events, « France-Atlanta:
Together Towards Innovation » animated the Georgia capital for more than two
weeks.
In
total, the Consulate General of France in Atlanta and Georgia Tech presented 15
French-American scientific, business, cultural, and humanitarian events, |
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Marc Gunther: Posted on Monday, October 31, 2011 1:26 PM
One of the cool things about being Bill Gates is that if you are curious about something, you can find smart people who will teach you whatever it is that you want to know. About five years ago Gates decided that he wanted to learn about climate change, so he arranged for two of the world's leading climate scientists, David Keith of the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, and Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution, to organize a series of seminars. Since then, Keith and Caldeira have recruited |
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