Talent Alley

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 [...]

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I received an email this morning from the CEO of a local technology company who is in the process of hiring a controller for his company. He forwarded an email from a prospective candidate whose career halting initial message was: PLease see attached resume . My slasry requirements would be in the middle of your [...]

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Despite the proliferation of assorted social media platforms and text messaging, the majority of our business communications still takes place using email. Email has the potential to dominate our time and attention if managed improperly, so here are a few email rules to live by that will help make all our digital lives a little [...]

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So let’s ban email.  But before we do, let’s talk about something else: auditing emails.  I know, the phrase has a terrifying ring.  No one likes anything audited and email can be highly personal, but Michael Schrage thinks that it’s a good mechanism to improve productivity.  No, we’re not talking about policing someone’s email looking [...]

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Computer technology is funny. The smaller, faster, and cheaper things get, the bigger, slower, and more problematic they become. It used to be that sending a 1MB file took forever and was likely blocked by the recipient.   Today 1MB is child’s play, but that 300MB PowerPoint presentation…that’s still a problem. Some may shrug and [...]

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