Rethinking the ways people and businesses interact
From the monthly archives:
In spite of an obvious selling proposition, hiring revolution is absolutely correct. It is getting harder, not easier, to fill job orders. And this isn’t going to become easier before it becomes more difficult.
There are some industries that aren’t in that position. There are some industries that are in South America, Asia, Europe and Africa [...]
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In a previous post, I addressed the problem with big centralized conferences when networking can now be much more easily done using incredibly new technology such as a telephone or e-mail. This led to a discussion with Amitai over at Recruitomatic which led to a follow-up post by him which leads me to this [...]
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Most people that I interview are nice people. Some of them are incredibly nice. More than likely, you are a nice person and your HR guy is an optimist: he thinks most people are pretty nice people. Granted that I’ve had an interview with a jerk or two and while it can be fun to [...]
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When I write an ad, I am pretty specific about contact methods and processes to go through. Those rules don’t apply to those who are networking but if you are in a hiring process, you will go through the hiring process as I dictate. That may seem inflexible but here is the differences between [...]
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The Society for Human Resource Management is having its annual conference in Washington D.C. and is apparently having one hell of weather event going on. Maybe it is fitting that it is happening during the largest gathering of Human Resources professionals and vendors nationwide. The weather is changing in the business world, HR isn’t coping [...]
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Puzzle House
If you’ve ever seen Stonehenge (either in person or in photographs), an image comes to mind that is unavoidable. So what HR guy? There are lots of works of man that are inspiring, what is so special about Stonehenge? Well, here’s my logic. Can you draw a picture of the layout of Stonehenge [...]
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I had an employee at an old job of mine who thought I was out to get him. I’ve had many “come to Jesus” talks over the course of my career but the one I gave him was simply brutal…brutally honest. Performance wise, he was the worst employee consistently. He might never [...]
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I reviewed Radical Careering here several weeks ago and while I thought the book was average, one point that stuck with me and has continued to do so is the building of portable equity. Portable equity is defined as skills, experience and education that you can take with you from job to job. These days, [...]
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I was discouraged when I saw this article posted on CNN in which I echoed frightened chills from Tiffany and GetCareer. More importantly, I asked myself what I could do to stem the tide of poor resumes coming to my colleagues desks (and hopefully my own as well). With the resume being a critical [...]
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Recruiting Animal responded to a series of posts I made regarding the termination of an employee for offering “copious BJ’s” to other employees for taking a shift of his. The discussion that unfolds is very interesting. There seems to be two schools of thought unfolding. One is that the language he used [...]
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