Archive for the ‘Odo Speak’ Category

E-Signatures: The Basic Facts

Signing forms and documents online still gives more than a few people pause. Electronic and digital signatures (two different things) are here to stay, and their use has become more and more standard since Bill Clinton capped his presidency with his greatest achievement: the Esign Act, which legalized non-ink signatures. Since then it has come [...]

Predatory Internships: The Summer Collection

Summer is nigh, and that means predominantly one thing: free things! From outdoor shows to indoor…shows (I guess I didn’t really take full advantage of last summer), this schweatiest of scheasons is a pretty good time for most people. Excepting one group–a group providing many times more free services than the rest of the free [...]

Human Resources Predictions for 2020 are out!

If you work in human resources, will you have a job in seven years? Based on the predictions released this week by Erin Osterhaus, esteemed managing editor of  Software Advice‘s HR blog The New Talent Times, the answer is resoundingly it depends. And what does long term job security depend on? The answer lies within you. True story. [...]

4 Scholarly Articles Relevant to your Job that you Probably Missed

If you are like 100% of the workforce, you do not go home and read scholarly articles about business management. So, really, if you read this blog post, you are already ahead of 99.9 repeating % of the workforce. We’ve compiled what amounts to some abstracts of some abstracts, just so you, our reader, can [...]

The Paper Jam

For those of you who have followed the Official Blog of Bizodo since the beginning, reading every new use case with a child’s glee, savoring every Feature Feature post and often wonderfully condescending workplace tips–for you, we have some dramatic news. We ask your children to please leave the room (props by the way if [...]

The Rather Poetic Transcriptions of Great Youtube Business Talks

If you are seeking an easy fix of inspiration for your business life, Youtube can provide. While in a sort of meta search for inspiration for talks that would vivify our readers while making for a nicely angled post, we came across a curious new feature on Youtube: the TRANSCRIPT. The transcript on YouTube is [...]

8 Great Things to do for a New Hire’s First Day on the Job

1. Replace the nerve racking first day at work with an employee bonding adventure, like:   OR   OR   2. INDULGE them   3. Stand up comedy lessons, which actually happens at this PR company 4. Play JENGA. The greatest game ever that we somehow always forget about 5. If you’re company is really [...]

Lessons Learned from People who do much more than you

Pretty busy today? Ha. This post is dedicated to historical and contemporary figures who, by all accounts, had as much or more to do than you do, and accomplished those things with greater flare and efficacy than you do your things. But in the midst of an emasculating–or efeminating, as the case may be–there arises [...]

The Ultimate Summary of the Work from Home Debate

If you follow the newses with any great magnitude of frequency whatsoever, you’ll have noted that there is seriously little of note going on. Basically, the Pope feigned illness to get off of work for the rest of his life, and Marissa Mayer recalled all her employees so they can stand around the water cooler [...]

4 Easy steps to signing a document like you aren’t in the 1990s

Alright, the 90s are kind of getting the brunt of this post’s ridicule today, but 80s bashing has just about been tapped, and the 90s are oh so ripe right now. Signing documents with a pen could really signify any decade over the last 2,000 years since the invention of paper, though it really should [...]