From the monthly archives:

September 2007

Lying About a Short-Term Job?

by Lance Haun on September 28, 2007

Here is one from the mailbox:
Hey Lance,
Love your blog! But I’m here to get your advice and
opinion. I will be interviewing for a position that I am very
interested in but I resign from my last job a little over a month ago.
I have a new job but I don’t want to list the new job [...]

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Rejection hurts

by Lance Haun on September 25, 2007

Guess who isn’t a Top 100 HR blogger?
Me! (Who else would I be complaining about?)
Anyway, this list is a pretty good look at the amount of HR blogs out there. One notable omission (besides the unforgivable omission of yours truly) is any of the creations of Recruiting Animal. What gives bootstrapping person? You’ve got several [...]

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Video Resumes Still Suck

by Lance Haun on September 20, 2007

Despite all of the hype about video resumes, they still suck.
I have written about video resumes all of two times. All of them get regular reader responses from people trying to convince me that they some how give me more information than I have already stated. Even though I wrote the first one about eight [...]

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Your HR Guy is a Monster

by Lance Haun on September 14, 2007

Or I am at least being quoted by Monster:
Recruiters use Internet searches “to avoid major red flags, but it is just another assessment of a person,” says the anonymous blogger known as Your HR Guy. He adds, “My general view on Internet searches is that, for most positions, ignorance is bliss. Most of what is [...]

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I'm on LinkedIn — Now What???

by Lance Haun on September 13, 2007

Jason Alba of JibberJobber has written what I consider to be the consummate guide to navigating through the waters LinkedIn. I’m on LinkedIn — Now What??? (with three question marks!!!) captures not just the technical details of running the site and being effective but also how to get the most out of it from the [...]

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Catching up…

by Lance Haun on September 13, 2007

Apologies to regular readers. I am in the midst of a move and about 100 other things right now but I figured I should update here with everything I’ve really been wanting to write about.
So if I all of the sudden hit nearly 5 posts a week, you’ll know why

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I hate the phrase "change management"

by Lance Haun on September 7, 2007

I don’t know what it is but for some reason the phrase really bugs me.
I hate jargon. Jargon, to me at least, is taking the easy way out. With jargon, you don’t have to say what you’re actually doing, people have to try to figure out what you’re doing. So while you were “creating synergistic [...]

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