Rethinking the ways people and businesses interact
From the category archives:
This is the big show.
Next week, I’ll be all up in San Diego attending two great events: SourceCon and ERE Expo. Here’s what I know
San Diego is my second favorite west coast city
There are going to be some great people in attendance
There will be a bunch of fantastic speakers and presenters
What is crazy is that [...]
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I’ve received cover letters with that opening line. I’ve received PR pitches with that same opening line. I’ve also received opening lines like:
Dear sirs
Dear sir or madam
Attn: personnel
Dear blogger or expert
In every single one of these cases, these people wanted me to do something for them. Read their resume, give them an interview, review their [...]
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When I went to visit Washington DC last week, I stopped by the National Archives to visit some of the US’s greatest political treasures. By far, the most compelling exhibit was the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Taking a look at these two documents side by side was a powerful moment in my life. [...]
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I have always been one of those guys who sees the world in non-exact, change filled, and nebulous ways. I am hesitant to say I am a big picture thinker because everyone loves to say that they are a big picture thinker (while, of course, still being great with details). That’s always a load of [...]
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Ragan at recruiting.com gets a really surprising reaction from some of the commenters to a post about networking and the rude responses received. To be honest, I can’t in a million years think of a better way to connect with other professionals in my area than by networking.
Networking as a job or candidate searching tool [...]
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Todays blogswap post is brought to you Alise Cortez, co-writer of the Improved Experience blog. She writes much more intelligently in regards to why “all things being equal” is bad, bad, bad! This is a take off of my post on the same subject. Thanks Alise.
Yes, indeed, our tendency to rely on colloquial phrases like [...]
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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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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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