Talent Alley

One of the trends in this ‘jobless’ recovery from the Great Recession is the noticeable skills gap that impacts many industries today. At Nesco Resource, we sometimes struggle to match available employees to the specific job requirements outlined by our clients. In the Cleveland market near our corporate HQ, this skills gap is clear and [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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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? [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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The New York Times reported today that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) settled a case brought by an employee who was fired for criticizing her supervisor on Facebook. The employee’s manager viewed a post that the woman made from her home on her personal Facebook account, took offense at the criticism and fired the employee [...]

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I’ve received a number of questions and comments about my previous post in the Toughest Interview Questions series: Why Should I Hire You? that suggest that some more detail and explanation is in order. The reason the question is so difficult for job seekers, and so revealing for employers, is that it requires the candidate [...]

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