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Elevator Speeches for the Rest of Us

The Elevator Speech is supposed to be that quick 3 minute blurb about who you are and what you do.  It’s that magic moment when you have someone’s (presumably a CEO) attention and you need to make the most of it. Realistically, however, making a well crafted elevator speech can be just as valuable to [...]

Health Portals and Your Company

Healthcare and the workplace in America are intertwined, yet most companies treat it something akin to a paycheck.  In other words, health benefits come as a reimbursement for the job.  However, healthcare is really an investment in a workforce and healthy employees create a more efficient team.  Getting healthy in the most cost effective way possible should be [...]

Hire Faster, Hire Better?

Mark Suster is writing about Startups in his blog post  Hire Fast/Fire Fast, but how does it apply to everyone else?  Let’s just focus on the hiring part here.  Here’s his take: I don’t think that recruiting is any different than any other decision process in a company. You’re never really going to know how [...]

Sex in the American (Apparel) Workplace

When it comes to sex in the workplace companies take two stances: ignore it or forbid it outright.  Okay, so we’re not actually talking about sex in the workplace.  That should be forbidden outright, no question.  But when two consenting adults who work together decide to do more than work together, what’s the company policy? [...]

Manager’s Cheat Sheet: Are You Managing Your Managers?

Everyone has heard growing pain stories about someone who is a fantastic entrepreneur, a great salesman, or  an innovative thinker, but as a leader…they fail miserably.  But if you’re a great leader naturally, chances are that you’ve been put in charge (or put yourself in charge) of a bunch of other leaders.  That’s the challenge [...]

5 Lessons From the Worst Resumes in History

The British newspaper The Telegraph recently printed an article detailing the unintentionally hilarious results from a CareerBuilder survey soliciting employers for their worst resume experiences. The details were entertaining, including candidates who: listed “God” as a reference (though without any phone number) sent a 24 page resume to detail a five year career included a [...]

The Secret to Finding and Hiring Talent

While dining this week with the CEO and owner of a nationally recognized SEO firm and the CIO of a large Cleveland institution, the topic turned to business and the current challenges facing both organizations. Not surprisingly, both declared that their single biggest challenge was finding and hiring talent. Finding and hiring bodies to occupy [...]

The Plumber vs. Nike: Who Needs Social Media More?

01 September 2011

A study by Citibank recently showed that small businesses aren’t using the web to nearly they extent that they “should.”  Commenting on the study, Jason Fall for Social Media Explorer summed up the prevailing attitude this way: Wanna know what real businesses are doing with digital marketing? Here’s a few of the findings: 81 percent don’t (that means [...]

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Running a Flat Company: Is Promotion to Management Always A Reward

14 July 2011

There is actually a fairly common problem in most companies that most people never talk about.  It’s the typical trajectory of a career:  Do a job well -> Get Promoted -> Manage others doing the same job.  The reason most companies don’t think about it is simple.  People like getting rewarded for a job well [...]

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Five Reasons to Care About Social Media in Recruiting (and Five to Not)

17 May 2011

Social media is changing the landscape of recruitment and you should care.  Right?  Well maybe.  Using technology to make life easier is always a good thing, but using it for the sake of using it is just a waste of time.  So here are five reasons to care about social media and five reasons not [...]

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100 Resources for Hiring (Seriously Do We Need That Many?)

02 May 2011

There is a sea of advice out there on hiring and being hired.  For the most part, there is a need for these resources.  No matter which side of the desk you’re sitting on, an interview process can be stressful. At hrworld.com they’ve put together a useful guide of resources covering everything about interviews from [...]

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The Van Halen Theory (and why it isn’t a good hiring practice)

26 April 2011

Here’s the legendary story that has apparently been verified by none other than David Lee Roth himself:  When the band Van Halen would arrive at a gig, they would check the M&M bowl.  If there were brown M&Ms, the band would re-examine all the technical details of the show.  There was a clause in their [...]

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Determining Pay Scale

15 April 2011

Joel Splosky, founder and CEO of Fog Creek Software, writes about a transparent payscale in his article Why I Never Let Employees Negotiate a Raise.  At first glance, Splosky seems to be suggesting one of those crazy, radical, workplace ideas that only software companies can handle.  Like free cappuccinos or air hockey: I wanted Fog Creek to have [...]

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I Got A Job Offer! Holy Cow, Now What?

16 February 2011

The scariest part of the job hunt for many job seekers is the moment after they actually receive an offer. They’ve just focused months of effort refining their resume, expanding their professional network and honing their interview skills, and suddenly discover that their job seeking skills are no longer relevant. Now they need to excel at [...]

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Does Your HR Process Recruit or Repulse?

14 February 2011

A lot of large companies are coming to the realization that in order to grow and thrive, they need to develop and pursue internal innovation capabilities. However, they also frequently recognize that they don’t have the internal talent needed to foster a culture of innovation. Organizations are hidebound by organizational memory that stifles innovation and continually pursues [...]

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30 Ideas. The New Job Search Rulebook.

11 February 2011

The job search rules have changed. The proliferation of job boards, social media platforms and perpetual connectivity have altered the job market in profound ways, requiring new talents and new job search strategies for the successful job seeker. Tim Tyrell-Smith, author of one of my essential daily blogs TimsStrategy.com, has published the new job search [...]

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7 Ways to Use QR Codes to Make Your Resume Stand Out

10 February 2011

It’s getting tougher and tougher to make your resume stand out on a recruiter’s or hiring manager’s desk. Most resumes adopt similar formats, and virtually all are created in Microsoft Word, using its default fonts, so making your resume stand apart requires some creativity. Since your job search is really just a personal marketing exercise, [...]

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