5 Things You Need to Know This Week…

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Hello and happy clean up your virtual desktop day! Once you're good and organized, kick your week off with these five must reads:

1. HR Software Firm Workday Stock Jumps Nearly 75 Percent on the First Day. On their first day of trading, shares of the cloud-based HR software maker Workday closed at $48.69 – 74 percent above their opening price of $28.

2. Who's the Boss? Recent research shows the huge economic value of effective supervisors and the surprising ways they make workers more efficient.

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nd-get-your-job-listings-moved-up-top/”>LinkedIn's New Tools Measure Brand Power, and Get Your Job Listings Moved Up Top [Video]. LinkedIn launches improvements to their site, including a way to measure your brand against others, an index of the most in-demand employers and “sponsored jobs” to get your listings up higher in the search results.

4. Lonely, Hard Work on Oil Rigs, But Salaries Soaring.  A recent boom in offshore drilling has caused salaries of oil rig workers to soar.

5. SNL's Sketch Pits iPhone 5 Factory Worker Problems Against Tech Critics [Video]. This sketch – poking fun at tech critics and their recent ridicule of the iPhone 5 –  is sure to be the talk of the water cooler today.

Have a great week, FOT Nation!

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Holland Dombeck
Holland Dombeck is the Editor and resident Gen-Y'er here at Fistful of Talent. She joined the group in August of 2011, with the sole responsibility of making our writers look like rock stars. She also spits the news and serves as producer on our podcast, The CYA Report. Check her out on Twitter via @Holland_Dombeck, or email her at hdombeck@kinetixhr.com for all things Fistful. (Side note - she'll respond faster if you put this your subject line: Go Noles!)

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