When filling any position a hiring manager’s biggest headache (or pain in the ass depending upon your point of view) is finding the right set of “potential” candidates to begin the interview process. After getting a pile of resumes, they have to trudge through them figuring out what these characters bring to the table. I’m [...]
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Whenever I run into someone who’s a bit odd, I find myself whispering to myself, “What’s with that guy?” I know. I know. I shouldn’t. But I’m so used to having people behave a certain way that when they fall outside my version of the norm – whatever that is – it’s something that calls [...] People come to me looking for help with their careers and businesses and I tell them if we are going to partner, they have to adhere to my three “golden rules”. Thou shalt not prejudge, compromise or assume. Now that sounds simple enough, right? But how many times each day do we do that? Many people prejudged [...] Toni Bowers’ wrote an article on her TechRepublic Career Management blog with the headline “Talking smack about former employers is not advisable.” She points to the farewell message sent by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dan Neil announcing his departure from the Los Angeles Times to go work for the Wall Street Journal. It’s the kind of [...] Keith Ferrazzi wrote an article called “Are Your Poor Listening Skills Hurting Your Career?” Ferrazzi’s the guy that wrote a “Never Eat Alone” and another one recently called “Who’s Got Your Back.” In both books Ferrazzi talks about networking and gaining support from the people around you. Could your listening habits [...] No matter if it’s voice mail, email, your Blackberry, a text, your next meeting or perhaps even an letter delivered the old fashioned way – in an envelope with a stamp, every once in a while you have to pull the plug and scream an obscenity ridden with – ENOUGH! What a concept…becoming unattainable for some [...] There’s a rumor going around that the economy’s improving. Job creation is on the move. Since good news is meant to be shared, I’m passing on the article “Four signs our recovery may not be entirely ‘jobless’” that should raise your spirits. After you read the article, shake off the blues, rebuild [...] I got this from someone in an email a long while back. I keep stuff much longer than most do only so I can use it for writing fodder someday in the future. Well I ran into this one and the day came for this one. Watch out! (BTW, it came with no author, so [...] I ran into this New York Times article that covers the nitty-gritty of unemployment statistics. It’s dated November so it gives us the numbers when the economy was at its worse (or close to it). It cuts up of the population by age, education level, race and gender. What caught my [...] |
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