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In The News: Google Chief Economist Sees Good Signs in Queries

Posted in Green Business, Green Jobs, sustainable business, tagged , , , on September 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

According to an article in today’s Washington Post, Google’s chief economist Hal Varian believes that a drop in Google queries for key words such as “unemployment” and an increase in topics such as “real estate” show that the economy is indeed improving.
From the WaPo article:
As a contemporaneous predictor, predicting the present through search queries has [...]

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Are We There, Yet?…

Posted in Dan Smolen Direct Search, LLC, Executive Recruiting, Executive Search, Green Business, Green Jobs, Sustainable Marketing, sustainable business, tagged , , on April 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Cross-posted to dansmolen.com
…In other words, is this: a) downturn, b) recession, c) economic calamity almost over?
Lately, this is a question recruiters get asked a lot.
Unfortunately, I am no economist, so I cannot say with any semblance of authority or certainty that we are at the beginning of the end of this long, long, national nightmare.
But [...]

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What About Green Executive Jobs?

Posted in Executive Recruiting, Executive Search, Green Business, Green Jobs, sustainable business, tagged , , , on February 20, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Twelve months ago, many of us thought that by now – February 2009 – we’d all be happy as clams discovering new job opportunities for green executive talent, or professionals looking to steer their non-green careers towards green marketing, green/clean tech, and other sustainable business sectors.
In February 2008, I joined other green business types in [...]

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