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Hiring the Best
It is always the mission to hire the absolute best in order to ensure a highly productive and motivated team. The critical challenge: The very best and brightest are always in great demand. As the talent pool continues to tighten, we must improve our recruiting techniques and enhance the speed of our process.
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This weekend Super Bowl LXI will be played in Miami, FL and will definitely increase the amount of excitement not only amongst football fans but job seekers as well. A lot of this can be associated with the ads from the “giant” job sites during the event. It has been well noted that this heightened exposure brings out more job seekers and can make even the passive candidate into an occasional “tire kicker.”
Executive Movements
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — MIKE CORTINO has resigned as senior vice president of domestic operations for PAPA JOHN'S INTERNATIONAL INC., franchisor or operator of 3,015 Papa John's Pizza outlets worldwide. No reasons were given. Papa John's said Cortino's responsibilities have been assumed temporarily by the company's U.S. president, BILL VAN EPPS.
HEATHROW, Fla. — TONY LAVELY has resigned as senior vice president of marketing and business development for RUTH'S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE INC., the company said. Lavely left the chain Monday “to pursue other business and personal interests,” the operator or franchisor of more than 100 namesake restaurants said , adding that a search for his replacement had begun. Lavely joined the chain in August 2004 after working for Burger King, Long John Silver's and Domino's Pizza.
Financial Overview
MIAMI — BURGER KING HOLDINGS INC., parent of the No.2 burger brand, posted a 41-percent year-over-year surge in net profit for the Dec. 31-ended second quarter of fiscal 2007 on a 9-percent rise in corporate revenues to a record $559 million. Revenues were driven by positive same-stores sales worldwide, up 3.7 percent overall from a year earlier, and restaurant openings, especially in international markets, the company said. In the United States and Canada, same-store sales rose 4.4 percent, driven by the chain’s BK Value Menu and sales of Xbox games featuring the chain’s advertising character, the King, the company said. For the quarter, Burger King Holdings earned $38 million, or 28 cents per share, versus $27 million, or 24 cents per share, a year earlier. Adjusting for the prior second quarter’s one-time items, including $3 million in management fees, Burger King’s latest-quarter income would have risen 9 percent to $38 million from $35 million a year ago, the company said Separately, Burger King said it would pay its first shareholder dividend as a public company...