5 Things You Need to Know This Week…

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Welcome back! Ease out of your tryptophan hangover with these five reads:

1. HR Software Firm Workday’s IPO Shines Spot

light on Healthy HR Software Market. The success of Workday’s IPO is going to prove beneficial to other vendors in the SaaS-based people management vendors; “A rising tide lifts all boats”.

2. Now You Can Search TheLadders for Free. TheLadders is now offering search and access to resumes of its fee-paying candidates at no charge to you.

3. Some States Ok Marijuana Use: Do Employers Have to Change Their Drug Polocies? As the number of states that have legalized marijauna – for either recreational or medicinal purposes – continues to grow, companies should consider revising their drug policy.

4. Facebook HQ Posters Urge Employees to Ditch iPhone for Android. Facebook urged its employees to switch from iOS devices to Android so that flaws in the company’s mobile app could be addressed more rapidly.

5. Didn’t get your shopping fix on Black Friday? Hit up Cyber Monday 2012: All the Best Deals on the Internet This Year.

Have a great week, FOT Nation!

FOT Background Check

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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