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2009 Simply Hired Nugget Bowl

This week marked the first (and very possibly the only) Simply Hired Nugget Bowl! What is a Nugget Bowl, you ask? Just over 25 years ago, small pieces of chicken that were breaded and fried were introduced to the McDonald’s menu and called Chicken McNuggets. But today, Chicken McNuggets have become one of the world’s best foods for an eating contest because of their fun size and deliciousness (now with real white meat!). And that’s where it all begins.

Nine very competitive and hungry Simply Hired employees marched over to the nearest McDonald’s on their lunch break to stock up on however many nuggets and dipping sauces they thought they could consume. Some of the competitors had the goal to eat a certain number of nuggets while others just wanted to eat more than everyone else. The group brought back over 250 Chicken McNuggets.

Back at the office, they laid their many boxes in front of them on a long table. Each competitor faced at least 20 pieces of Chicken McNuggets. Before the contest began, they drew in one last breath. And with the ring of a cowbell, they were off.

It was interesting to note the different eating styles. Some ate as quickly as possible to stuff themselves before realizing they were full. Others used the “turtle and the hare” strategy and ate at a more relaxed pace. Some alternated dipping the McNuggets in different flavors to keep their taste buds guessing and a few went without sauce all together.

There seemed to be four phases of the eating challenge:  

1. Yum stage (nuggets 1-5): “I love Chicken McNuggets!”
2. Oh, No stage (nuggets 6-10): “This is a lot of nuggets. I don’t know if I’ll be able to finish all 20, or 30… or even 40.”
3. Mindless, Tasteless Eating stage (nuggets 11-?): Chomp… chomp… chomp…
4. Second Wind stage (last 3 nuggets or so): “Woo! Bring it on! Where are the fries?”

Slow and steady won the race in this competition. Our winner ate 40 chicken nuggets in our contest, all while he leafed through the day’s newspaper. Congratulations to our new Nugget Master!

Happy Birthday SimplyHired.com!

It’s hard to believe, but SimplyHired.com is four years old! We’ve accomplished a lot over the past few years, but there is a lot more work to be done to make finding a job a simpler process. We’ve only just begun!

As a comparison, here are a couple of examples of the ways she’s grown. 

Countries served:
2005 - 1 (US)
2009 - 5 (US, Canada, UK, India, Australia)

Lifestyle Searches:
2005 - 0
2009 - 7

Number of blog posts:
2005 - 5
2009 - 240

Apple pies consumed:
2005 - 70
2009 - 14,363

Hamsters powering the site:
2005 - 3
2009 - 54

SimplyHired.com has gone through a number of changes physically as well. You’d hardly recognize her, she’s grown so much over the years!

2005

2009

We like to make changes to the site based on user recommendations. So let us know what we can do to give you a more positive experience on SimplyHired.com, send in stories about how the site's helped you out, or tell us your best job search haiku!

Check out the press release for some more facts about Simply Hired's growth!

Welcome Brian Corey!

We have a new member of the Simply Hired team: Brian Corey, who will serve as a Senior Vice President of Sales! For the past 8 years, Brian managed the Enterprise sales teams at Monster Worldwide where he was named VP of the year for three consecutive years because of his superior leadership and topnotch performance. He has 25+ years of experience in sales and sales management (so he knows his stuff) in large corporations such as Xerox where he started out selling word processing systems, and has worked at a few startup companies as well.

Brian is an all-around terrific guy, and we are so pleased to have him with us.

To learn more about Brian, check out the official press release!

Simply Hired Gives Back

Last Friday marked the end of Simply Hired’s office food drive to help feed the hungry this Thanksgiving. In last year’s drive, Simply Hired donated 1,901 lbs of food and $374.72 to Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Our goal this year was to donate 2,000 lbs of non-perishable food items. Simply Hired came together for a wonderful cause, wheeling in shopping carts full of food to be given to those who need it the most, and the barrels overflowed. While we’ve yet to receive the actual poundage of our donated food, we gave $553.35 of cash donations to Second Harvest!

However you celebrate Thanksgiving this year (cooking a turkey dinner, visiting Plymouth, watching the Cowboys game…), have a safe day filled with family, friends and good food!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

A Haunted Halloween

Happy Halloween all you ghouls and boys!

For the past week, Simply Hired has had some frightening festivities to get in the Halloween sprit. We started it off last Friday with a company-wide pumpkin carving contest, where people really busted out their creative skills. Among the contenders were a globe pumpkin to commemorate our recent international release, a guillotine scene complete with fake blood, a cannibalistic pumpkin eating a smaller pumpkin hamburger, a larger-than-life Simply Hired logo, a Mr. Potato Head Dracula pumpkin, and Nemo (we found him). The hamburger-eating pumpkin was declared the winner.

Today was Simply Hired’s Halloween party which consisted of good food, lots of candy, games and the event we were all waiting for: the costume contest. I wish I had pictures of some of the costumes (maybe I’ll get some up soon) because if you thought our pumpkins were creative, these getups were absolutely amazing. They ranged from metallic robots complete with LCD lights, to big babies (the new father of the staff), to states of weather (hydraulics included), “customer engagement” proposing with flowers and ring in hand, and many more. If only every day was like this…

Have a spooky evening!