The generation leading the revolution in divorce is, of course, Gen X. The biggest change is that there is a generation of people getting a divorce who were more or less equals in parenting and in work. Baby boomers talked about it, but when the women went to work, they did all the housework and childcare as well. Not as true with Gen X. Don’t get me wrong—women still do more than their male counterparts – for example, even women who have stay-at-home husbands are more involved in parenting than men who have stay-at-home wives. But Gen X men have been more involved in parenting than any…
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Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist
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How to divorce new-millennium style (and I love Kate Gosselin)
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Hatemail: Email I get that I hate
22 Jun 2009 | 9:20 amPeople always ask me to answer questions on my blog. So I am sort of going to answer questions. Questions I hate (that I have edited to save people from the trauma I probably caused David Dellifield): Email number one: The obnoxious reference check [Name redacted] is applying for a position at our company and listed you as a reference. I was hoping that you could complete the brief questionnaire attached to this email to provide your feedback. Thank you in advance for your help, and please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. This email is from InvestorGuide.com. Let me tell you… -
What's the connection between abortion and careers?
17 Jun 2009 | 6:02 amI have had two abortions. The first one was when I was twenty-seven. I was playing professional beach volleyball. I was playing volleyball eight hours a day and I spent two hours a day at the gym. I noticed that I was getting tired more easily, but I thought it meant I needed to train harder. Then one weekend, a doctor friend on a visit saw me drop a plate one day, and a vase the next. I told her my hands just gave out because they were so tired. She said I was anemic. Then she said, “Maybe you’re pregnant.” “I’m not,” I said. “I have a regular period.” It turns out, though,… -
How to be a tall person at work
16 Jun 2009 | 7:14 amThe Institute of Social and Economic Research recently published a study about the connection between popularity in high school and earning power later in life. New York magazine, information source to the rich and popular, summarized the study like this: "This study may seem to burst our Revenge of the Nerds fantasies, but it's logical that people who are attractive, likable, and socially comfortable—the class officers, the cheerleaders—should get ahead in corporate settings." There is absolutely irrefutable data to support the idea that good-looking people do better in… -
Do you belong in NYC? Take the test
11 Jun 2009 | 8:07 amMore than 80% of young people say they want to live in New York City, according to Time Out New York. I can understand that. I lived there for seven years. Of course, NYC is amazing. But I have also lived for about ten years each in Chicago, LA, and Boston. And now I live in Madison, WI. And I can tell you with certainty that anywhere you live requires you to give up some things. NYC has the most extreme benefits to it, but it also requires the most extreme concessions in order to get those benefits. This makes sense. It’s how most of life is. So in order to understand how good a fit…
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Simply Hired Blog
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Jobs Benefiting from the Stimulus Package
1 Jul 2009 | 12:12 pmIn the years ahead, there will be unprecedented spending on clean and green technology as a result of President Obama’s stimulus plan. With increased support for research in renewable energy and energy efficiency, approximately 3.5 million jobs will be created or saved.So what kind of jobs are out there in this new “green economy”? Five areas with significant expected job growth are Building Retrofitting, Mass Transit, Energy-Efficient Automobiles, Wind Power, Solar Power and Cellulosic Biofuels. Not sure what those areas entail? Check out Simply Hired’s Green Jobs: Finding work in an… -
Introducing Job Search Sites in Europe and South America!
30 Jun 2009 | 9:31 amHere at Simply Hired, we love to travel. Today, Simply Hired is expanding throughout Europe and into South America with job search websites in five new countries: Italy (www.simplyhired.it), Ireland (www.simplyhired.ie), Belgium (www.simplyhired.be), Brazil (www.simplyhired.com.br) and the Netherlands (www.simplyhired.nl). Job seekers in these countries are now able to simplify their search by using Simply Hired to access job listings from all over the Web including the leading job boards, content websites, newspapers, and company career pages.These localized job search websites incorporate… -
Simply Hired on All Things Digital
29 Jun 2009 | 12:06 pmIf you're the kind of person who drools over shiny new gadgets and the latest technology, you'll be excited to hear that All Things Digital, the media and technology site that is part of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, has a new Jobs channel powered by Simply Hired. Thanks to the new channel, you can now look for jobs between reading up about the new iPhone or Windows 7 upgrade. The new jobs channel can be found at http://allthingsd.jobamatic.com. In addition, featured jobs can be found on the All Things Digital homepage, brought to you by Simply Hired. -
Take your dog to work today!
26 Jun 2009 | 3:54 pmToday is Take Your Dog to Work Day, when many employees across the nation bring in their furry little family members to their workplace. If you wish this day could last forever, why don’t you look for a job where you can bring in your pooch every day? In partnership with Dogster, Simply Hired brings you a Dog-friendly Companies search filter which allows you to search for jobs only at companies that are pet-friendly. You can also find the filter through the Special Searches page or listed under the Special Filters on any search results page. -
Simply Hired Named to Top 100 Websites
25 Jun 2009 | 9:50 amWEDDLES, the largest publisher of guides to employment websites on the Internet, recently released it’s 2009/2010 guide, in which Simply Hired was named as a Top 100 site in the online employment industry. “Our Top 100 employment sites are the elite of the job board industry,” says WEDDLE’s Publisher Peter Weddle. “They have the strongest brands, the best services and the most distinguished track records of the sites we’ve seen on the Web. Are there other good sites out there? Of course. But the Top 100 selectees are truly in a class of their own.”The site selection…
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Marty Nemko
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The World's Shortest Course in Finding a Career
2 Jul 2009 | 12:24 pmA reader emailed me this question and I hope that my answer will be of value not just to him but to anyone who's still not sure what they want to be when they grow up---even if they already are 20, 40, or even 80.Dear Marty,I love your posts. For years, I've taken the advice you've given and tried to apply them directly to my life. I feel like I've grown immensely from it.I was hoping that you could spare a minute to help me with one more step? It isn't explicitly covered in your posts, which is why I thought I'd contact you directly.My problem is that I live with an overbearing father who… -
The Latest Example of Censorship of Politically Incorrect Thought
29 Jun 2009 | 5:45 pmWhen even Kiwanis starts censoring politically incorrect thought, you know that today's McCarthyism from the Left has become woven into America's fabric.I was invited to give a talk to the Kiwanis Club of San Francisco and asked what I wanted to talk about. I replied, "I'd like to talk about how, today, boys and men are treated unfairly relative to their merit."The response from its program chair, who also is active in the feminist organization, Girls, Inc.: That will be acceptable only if the presentation is "positive," objective," and "non-incendiary."I was expected to be "positive,… -
"Is a College Degree Worthless?"
28 Jun 2009 | 9:38 amMSN features yet another vain attempt to convince the foolish public that college is, as I've called it, "America's Most Overrated Product. " This article is called, "Is a College Degree Worthless?"Why a vain attempt? For every such article, the public swallows a mountain of college-orchestrated propaganda on why, for example, even more students should attend college. Now, the Obama administration, having swallowed the mountain, is saying that its goal is that all high school students have the "opportunity" to attend college.God, if he'd only spend a week at a typical (not Harvard) college,… -
Vocational Training, Not Degrees, May Be a Surer Route to Well-Paying Employment
24 Jun 2009 | 9:12 amA large percentage of college students graduate with a social science or humanities major, assuaged by colleges' sales pitches for liberal arts majors. But a front-page piece in today's New York Times on where the jobs are may give you pause.Many of the jobs promising good pay and solid job prospects even in bad times require no more than a vocational (not college prep) high school diploma plus on-the-job training. None of those listed require a graduate degree. Here are the key quotes from that article:"Employers are begging for qualified applicants for certain occupations...Welder is one,… -
How Exhausted Men Can Still be Good Fathers
21 Jun 2009 | 11:44 pmThis recession has been called a mancenssion because 82% of the jobs lost have been to men.Many of those men still with jobs are working longer, harder, faster to avoid being axed in the next round. So ever more men are coming home exhausted, often after inordinately stressful jobs. Careercast.com, using Department of Labor data found that all eight of the most stressful careers are male-dominated.)Yet their wives and/or society often chastise men for not spending enough time on domestic chores or with kids, often even in situations in which the woman pressured the guy into having kids or…
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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese
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Do Bad Managers Make Us Perform Better?
2 Jul 2009 | 9:17 amSo, which is more important to you: Having a manager you like, or one who can take you to the top of your profession?It's certainly an interesting dilemma. In a survey of 380 Major League Baseball players, five of the managers that players say they would "least like to play for" include some pretty successful managers, including Tony LaRussa, who has two World Series wins under his belt. (Full disclosure: I'm a big Cardinals fan.)And some other big names in the baseball management ranks made the list, including Ozzie Guillen, who was Manager of the Year in 2005, and Joe Torre. (Torre seemed… -
Need a Shove?
29 Jun 2009 | 8:38 amOne of the common threads I've found when interviewing people who have lost their jobs over the last year is the optimism most of them feel when they're first laid off. That lasts for about four or five months. Then, you can hear it in their voices: they're scared and frustrated and feel very, very alone.I've been without work so I know how they feel. But recently I did a story on mentors -- how they can help your career not only when you have a job, but especially when things aren't going so hot. And while no one was portraying the mentoring experience as all fun and games -- it takes a lot… -
Can Playing Second Banana Be a Smart Career Move?
25 Jun 2009 | 6:49 amWhen I was a kid, I didn't think too much of Ed McMahon."He doesn't do anything," I would complain to my sisters when we were allowed to stay up late and watch Johnny Carson.Oh, how wrong I was. McMahon did the most important thing of all: He made his boss look good.He laughed when the jokes were good, or even bad. He was a perfect straight man to Carson's antics, always letting his boss have the limelight. He even knew when it was time to scoot down the couch for the guests. And who could have imagined his "Heeeere's Johnny" would be such a fantastic branding strategy?I think some people… -
Do People Draw a Blank When it Comes to Your Personal Brand?
22 Jun 2009 | 6:43 amI remember the first time I had a really in-depth discussion about personal branding many years ago. I was interviewing Catherine Kaputa, who wrote "You R A Brand", and she took the time to really explain the whole concept to me.Since then, I've interviewed other personal branding experts, and they've all added to my knowledge. I've also seen a lot of people think they are effective personal branders, but they're really not doing anything but annoying people with their "look at me!" practices.Recently, I had a chance to connect with Kaputa again for a recent Gannett/USA Today column on… -
Are You Afraid to Take a Vacation This Year?
18 Jun 2009 | 7:17 amAre you afraid to take a vacation this year?The answer may depend on how secure you feel with your job right now. But if a recent study is any indication, the answer may be that instead of hauling your butt to the beach, you're going to make sure it's glued to your office chair.According to a recent Towers Perrin survey of 650,000 workers, fewer people are "seriously considering" leaving their job: 71 percent reported they're not looking for work right now, up from the 64 percent recorded last year. Clearly, workers aren't messing with what they've got, whether they like it or not. They know…
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The Inside Job
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The June Jobs Report and Long-term Unemployment
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Why the Unemployed Need to Find Peace of Mind
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What to Do When You've Been Fired
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The Hard Truth About Getting Hired
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How to Ask For a Raise After the Recession
23 Jun 2009 | 6:57 amShow a little intelligence and tact in that first request for a raise in the recovery.
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Everyone's Blog Posts - talent revolution
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New Publishing Contract for Cutting to the Chase!
I'm excited to announce that a publishing contract has been offered for Cutting To The Chase! The book is coming your way soon! Stop by my website to check it out! Happy Reading! Stephanie Morris -
Thanks for Inquiring...I do Still Exist!
I have to thank both Chris and Keith....over the last few months, lets be honest pretty much all of 2009, I have been pretty absent on here. I am not proud to admit this because this is definitely the BEST networking site out there! I have to explain why I have been absent. With the declining economy our company refocused on many things. While we scaled back on many items our people development (aka training) took on full steam because our President and Owner both realize that we need to continue to take care of our people to drive results. I am proud to say this and wish more companies our… -
Video Blog: The "I Want To Be An Entrepreneur Trend"
On a flight last week, I was sitting next to a boy and a girl who were both in their mid twenties. The girl noticed the “start-up magazine” in my bag, pointed to it and said to the boy, “Hey, have you heard of this magazine?” It was an obvious and awkward moment where I knew she wanted me to ask, “Do you have a start-up? If so, what do you do?” So.. I asked, she enthusiastically said, “YES!“ and then, blushing, said “OK. Here’s my spiel.” Her “partner” winked and gave her a look that said, "You go girl. You’ve got this!" She gave me their scripted pitch as if… -
Shout Out to.......US
That's right it is time for a few minutes of blatant, glowing, self-acknowledgement. Apple Sauce, Inc/ AppleIllinois is diving into the discussion. In what, for an old school, down to earth, very successful, restaurant company, has been a very short amount of time our Executive Team has committed to us diving into the social media, Web 2.0 mix. First, I would like to say thanks to our leadership for truly seeing the value in this adventure and quickly getting past the reservations they may have had, and focusing on the huge possibilities social media presents to us. At times the restaurant… -
Better Late Than Never has received another glowing review!
With all of the other novels I'm currently working on and the one's soon to be released, I'm thrilled to see that Better Late Than Never is still a number one Best-seller and is still getting rave reviews! It is definitely a motivator to keep writing! Happy Reading! Stephanie Morris Come Check Out The Review!
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Jobacle
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Billy Mays: American Success Story
1 Jul 2009 | 6:00 amI always had a sweet spot in my heart for pitchman Billy Mays. Not just because I think my impression (BILLY MAYS HERE!) is pretty solid, but because Billy was a true American success story. Whether you loved or hated his style, there is no denying that he built himself up into an iconic figure. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone not familiar with his trademark delivery and appearance. (Black hair dye, some hair gel and a blue shirt.)Here are several career lessons to be learned from the college dropout. -
Bing & CareerBuilder Are Watching You
30 Jun 2009 | 3:00 amLaunched with little fanfare and a miniscule budget (see video below), Microsoft's new search engine Bing and CareerBuilder have teamed up (using the Bing API) to bring you Applicant Explorer. Designed to give an employer more information about a job candidate, the app mines data that is available across the Web. That means that all of your forum postings, personal Websites, Press releases, blogs, and newspaper articles can come back to haunt you. (I realize they can help you too!) -
My Career: More Questions Than Answers
29 Jun 2009 | 11:43 amI tend to know what I want out of life. And if I make a mistake, I correct it as quickly as possible. More often than not, thanks in part to a perfect mix of in-tune instincts and obsessive research, I make the right choices.Marrying the perfect woman. Check.Buying a great house. Check.Landing my dream gig...No check. Why is it that in a world where I am confident about the decisions I make, I am still unsure about my career choices and where I am heading next? -
America's 8 "Most-Demanding Jobs"
25 Jun 2009 | 3:34 amOur pals at CareerCast have released the following...What do firefighters, surgeons and senior corporate executives have in common? More than you may think. They are among the nation’s most demanding jobs, according to a new CareerCast.com study.While firefighter reigns supreme as the most all-around demanding job, surgeon and senior corporate executive rank second and third, followed by police officer. Considering that firefighters regularly work long hours in hazardous, life-threatening situations and have the most physical demands of any of our top jobs, their landslide first place… -
Why Your Weekends Aren't For Work
24 Jun 2009 | 5:57 amI recently blogged about things that I like more in my 30s than I did in my 20s.Looking back on my "younger years," I can also see many differences in my attitude towards work. One of the big shifts is how much time I spend thinking about work when I'm not at work.Over the years I have been able to re-train myself to eliminate work thoughts when I'm off the clock. I have found that this has improved my home life, reduced the feeling of dreading Mondays, and led to a better career experience overall.I'd love to outline a laundry list of how-to tips, but, quite frankly, it comes down to a…
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Standout Jobs
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A How-To Guide to Corporate HR Blogging
9 Jun 2009 | 8:55 amStandout Jobs and Talent Synchronicity are very pleased to release our Definitive Guide to Corporate HR Blogging. Real-time social networking via Twitter, Facebook, etc. is certainly all the rage. But fundamentally, blogging still remains the best way to build brand, authority and thought leadership. Lots of companies blog and more and more are joining the world of blogging on a regular basis. Corporate HR blogging on the other hand has a long way to go. Blogging is a great way for HR and recruiting functions to attract the right types of job seekers and candidates in a long-term, strategic… -
Facebook Launches a Recruiting Video
21 Apr 2009 | 8:24 amFacebook recently launched a recruiting video. I like it. Perhaps a bit too polished to give you a real sneak peak on the inside of the organization, but it’s a nice way of talking to potential candidates. Not surprising, some people have called it cheesy and lame. I liked the video. Whether you think Facebook is a great business or not is a different story, and maybe it’s not going to convince someone that hates Facebook to fall in love with it. But it’s a good way of telling people a bit about Facebook, something people might not have known, and it focuses on just a few… -
Social Networking Banned for Recruiting
19 Apr 2009 | 7:43 pmAmegy Bank of Texas bans social networking sites in the hiring process for fear of being sued. It’s a shame companies feel this is a necessary step. It seems to me what you put on the Web that’s accessible publicly is public. (I’m certainly no lawyer, of course.) There are ways of uses social networking sites in private - Facebook and Twitter both allow you to hide your profiles and updates. But I think you do give up some right to privacy when you post things online that anyone can see. You don’t have to publish content online in a public way, so when you do so,… -
Twitter, Chat and More Career Site Interactivity from Standout Jobs
30 Mar 2009 | 6:16 amOver the weekend, Standout Jobs released new functionality - primarily aimed at increasing career site interactivity. Those features include: Chat. The chat feature allows you to schedule group chats, so you can invite a bunch of people to visit your career site and communicate with you. This could be thought of as a simple, online career fair. You can have different recruiters or individuals at your company in the chat to speak with job seekers and candidates. It’s easy to schedule a chat, create the chat room and then place the chat widget on your career site wherever you want. When… -
Quantum Relies on Standout Jobs to Power Recruitment Micro-Sites
24 Mar 2009 | 7:01 amGlobal Storage, Backup and Recovery Giant Steps up Employer Branding Initiatives with Niche Employment Portals Montreal, March 24, 2009 – Standout Jobs, a leading provider of web-based tools to power companies’ online recruiting efforts, today announced it has signed Quantum Corporation (NYSE: QTM), a global storage company, specializing in backup, recovery and archive technology to its quickly growing roster of recruitment micro-site customers. Standout Jobs lets companies easily create and quickly deploy interactive career sites and recruitment micro-sites using the latest Web…
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Brazen Careerist
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Goal Shifting
2 Jul 2009 | 2:43 pmMany people I know are writing their own books, or want to write one eventually. If it’s because it’s your dream, then go for it. But I doubt you’re not doing it also for the money. In which case, it’s not a good idea (statistically speaking, of course). Writing a book is always a great project, if it’s done for the right reasons. The world changes, and so should our goals. Changing your goals is not settling, is accepting the world you’re living in. It’s working hard for your dream, any dream, what will make you feel good about yourself. Bottom Line:… -
If Looks Could Kill Your Career
2 Jul 2009 | 12:05 pmLast night I managed to keep my chin off my chest for 4-hours at my weekly MBA class on Human Resources Management. I know, you’re jealous. We’ve been studying discrimination in the hiring process, and last night we looked at some studies of how better looking people tend to get more jobs, get promoted faster, and make more money, all other things being equal. Male or female, young or old, black or white. Good looking people have a huge advantage in life, and not only at work. In case you care, this is called the “Halo Effect”. I know what you’re thinking, and it’s true… -
Knowing is Half the Battle
2 Jul 2009 | 4:56 amTrolling across the pages of BusinessWeek, I came across an interesting article about the surprisingly high turnover many nonprofits encounter and the “leaky bucket of volunteerism.” “Earlier this year, the Stanford Social Innovation Review published a piece that noted how poorly most nonprofits manage their volunteers. As a result, more than a third of the 60 million-plus Americans who donate their time and talents one year don’t do so the next—not only at the organization where they’d signed up, but at any nonprofit at all. Some call this “the leaky bucket of volunteerism.”… -
How to Manage Your Manager
2 Jul 2009 | 4:55 amManaging upwards is really the most important career skill. Managing upwards includes managing expections, thwarting micro-management and getting them to go to bat for you when you need it. Because there’ll always be someone to manage up. There’ll always be someone above you, unless you’re the CEO. And when you’re the CEO, you’ve got the investors to answer to, unless you’re the private owner. And if you’re the private company, you’re going to need to be able to manage your customers. Write your success story before you start When you’re given an assignment, never walk… -
Only the Employed Need Apply
2 Jul 2009 | 4:54 amAccording to the Wall Street Journal, many employers in this economy think that the best candidates are those who are still employed and are “bypassing the jobless to target those still working, reasoning that these survivors are the top performers.” See it for yourself. Bobby Fitzgerald, the restaurant owner quoted in this article, seems to think that restaurant servers and managers are only worthy of being hired if they have a current job. Even though he claims ‘two dozen or more unsolicited résumés come in each day’, he’d rather fly a candidate from Alabama to Phoenix to…
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About.com Job Searching
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How to Write a Resume
30 Jun 2009 | 11:00 pmOne of the hardest parts of job searching, especially you're just starting out, is figuring out how to write a resume. Do you need help with how to write... -
Telephone Interviews
28 Jun 2009 | 11:00 pmPhone interviews are often used to screen candidates in order to narrow the pool of applicants who will be invited for in-person interviews. They are also used as way to... -
Facebook Apps for Job Searching
27 Jun 2009 | 1:15 amJust about everyone is using Facebook for personal networking, but you can use it for professional networking, as well. With lots of job search applications to choose from, Facebook is... -
Find Job Listings Online
26 Jun 2009 | 8:01 amAre you looking for jobs in all the right places? My Online Job Search and Employment Guide has all the resources you'll need to find job listings online, including... -
Getting More Money on Your Next Job
24 Jun 2009 | 11:29 pmIt can be tough to negotiate salary in the best of circumstances. Even deciding whether to accept a job offer or to negotiate the salary can be a hard decision...
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The Work Buzz
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467,000 jobs lost in May
The job loss numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning show that 467,000 jobs were lost in May. That is up from the revised total of 322,000 jobs lost in April. Of course that's not welcome news. However, we're not at the painfully astronomic levels of a ... -
Wednesday’s good reads roundup
Hey, there! Are you as excited for the weekend as we are? Here we come, BBQ on the patio! For your evening reading, we bring you some noteworthy story: So even when the stocks seem to be doing OK, they're still skittish. Eek. Stocks advance after mixed data; Jobs report looms Are job loss numbers ... -
Employers to Maintain Staff Levels in Third Quarter
Most employers expect their staff levels to remain the same in the third quarter as recruiting patterns hold steady and job losses trend downward, according to a new survey by CareerBuilder and USA TODAY’s. The survey, conducted by Harris Interactive among more than 2,600 hiring managers and human resource professionals, predicts ... -
Tuesday’s good reads roundup
Poor Tuesday. Lost in the sea of a shortened work week. It's not the dreaded Monday. It's not Hump Day/first of July. It's not Thursday, which this week is Friday. It just sits there, waiting to be ignored. The news stops for no one, however. And once again the news world ... -
What’s Unemployment Like In Your City?
A new report released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics states that the unemployment rates in May of this year were higher in all 372 metropolitan areas than they were one year ago. The unemployment rate, which is currently 9.4 percent, was at 9.1 percent in May, up from ...
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Escape From Cubicle Nation
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Instant mood lifter: thank someone for a job well done
24 Jun 2009 | 5:55 amI am sitting in the Phoenix airport about to take off for the first leg of my book tour in Silicon Valley, CA and Portland, Oregon. I arrived at 4:30am since my husband dropped me off before work. My flight takes off at 6:15am. The entrance to the departure curb was blocked off for maintenance, and by the time we realized it, I had to crawl over some barriers with my suitcase and drag my book-laden suitcases far down the sidewalk. The police officer stationed at the blocked off entrance gave me an annoyed look. “Someone left you stranded, huh?” he said, as if I had been… -
Overloaded corporate employee w/entrepreneurial dreams needs your advice
16 Jun 2009 | 11:12 amIt has been awhile since I have done an “open source coaching” post. These have been some of my very favorite times on the blog, since the advice from my readers is so specific and supportive. Past posts include: The 23 year old ballplayer trapped in a cube and the follow up post with input from his mom Relationship advice for an aspiring entrepreneur This time around, my gentle reader is, in her words, trapped in a hellish situation and wants to find a way out. Here is the gist, edited for confidentiality. We decided that “Manic Mathilda” was an appropriate… -
Open letter to recent college graduates
12 Jun 2009 | 5:44 pmCongratulations! Making it through four or five years of college requires concentration, stamina and discipline and you should feel very proud of yourself. I am proud of you. I imagine you have been getting looks of pity from friends and relatives since you are graduating in one of the bleakest economic climates since the Great Depression. Here is the good news: there is no need to worry. Living with constraints and challenges is one of the best learning opportunities you will ever get. By succeeding in a tough economy, you will be much better prepared for life than peers who graduate… -
How to know if a work challenge is building or busting your chops
11 Jun 2009 | 1:57 pmThe other day I got a panicked text message from a client. “Help me Pam. I am totally scared. Call me.” Expecting to hear the worst, I called him right back. “What’s going on?” I said. “I just got asked to take on a big project and I am scared out of my mind” he replied. Knowing that he was new in his consulting business and that a big project was exactly what he had been asking for, we worked together to diagnose the scary parts so he could move out of the panic zone and get busy. If you get in a similar quandary, here is how I suggest getting out of… -
Learn fantastic relationship-building skills with me, Keith Ferrazzi and Daniel Pink on 6/11
10 Jun 2009 | 2:44 pmI sometimes have a flair for the dramatic when talking about important business building ideas. I am dead serious about this one: The topic of this call is the secret to the universe, and will radically alter the course of your destiny if you apply it. What I mean by “secret to the universe*” is that when you build strong mentoring relationships with people who are deeply committed to your personal and professional success, you are propelled faster towards the things you want to accomplish in life than any other single thing you do. Keith Ferrazzi, bestselling author of Never…
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Lisa’s Generation Relations Blog
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Leadership Coaching for Gen Y and Gen X Employees
27 Jun 2009 | 2:40 pmHi All! What a busy week! I had no time to blog! And what a weird week! Pop culture sure had a does of sadness with the passing of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson. I grew up with all 3 of them so now I can relate to how my older cousins and family members felt when John Lennon and Elvis died. Geez…my best to all their other fans and their families! Okay…on a lighter note…back to some business news I wanted to share. The Leadership Coaching section of my website is now live! Woohoo! Aside from my seminars, keynotes, and workshops around Generation Relations,… -
Sharing Highlights from “Working With Millennials” Panel at Cisco
15 Jun 2009 | 12:44 pmHi All! On Friday I moderated a panel event, presented by FountainBlue.biz, and hosted by Cisco. The topic was “Working With Millennials”, and the event was attended by over 125 executives from different companies, plus many employees from Cisco also attended virtually through Cisco TV. Cool technology! Linda Holroyd, founder of FountainBlue.biz, a professional networking organization that (among many things) presents the “When She Speaks Leadership Series” monthly networking event, granted me rights to share highlight notes she compiled during the panel discussion… -
I’ve Been Selected As Expert Panelist for Popular Gen Y Career Blog
10 Jun 2009 | 4:20 pmHi All! I have some cool news to share. I’ve been selected as an expert panelist for CollegeRecruiter.com’s “Ask The Expert” blog. I, along with other knowledgeable panelists, will answer job, career and workforce questions posted by Gen Y (college students, recent grads, and those already working in their career). And, we’ll also answer questions for employers who have questions about Gen Y. Being selected as an expert panelist is a pretty big deal because CollegeRecruiter.com is THE leading job board for Gen Y. Their reach is HUGE and their company is highly… -
Fresh Air Fund Supports Kids In Need and Has Special Offer in June
7 Jun 2009 | 11:45 amHi All, I have blogged about The Fresh Air Fund before and I truly support the efforts of their non-profit organization. And due to a very generous group of donors, they are able to match dollar-for-dollar any donation you can make through June 30th! Example: This group of donors will match your donation of $25 (or whatever) with the same amount so The Fresh Air Fund will receive double the amount of your donation! Here’s some basic info about The Fresh Air Fund: THE FRESH AIR FUND, an independent, not-for-profit agency, has provided free summer vacations to more than 1.7 million New… -
New Resource for Recent College Grads & Entry Level Job Seekers
30 May 2009 | 3:48 pmHi All! There is a terrific new online service that matches Gen Y college grads with employment opportunities. This new service, ComeRecommended.com, was developed and founded by go-getter Millennial, Heather R. Huhman. And not only is this talented, savvy young woman the founder, but she also writes a popular column for entry-level job seekers on Examiner.com. I believe in what she’s doing with this new service so much that I’m supporting her efforts by being a business sponsor. And, no, I don’t get any money for doing this, so before you believe I have ulterior motives for…
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CareerDiva
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Working moms blamed for “Le” Big Mac
2 Jul 2009 | 5:28 amYou may have heard about or had the pleasure to have eaten delectable French cooking. A cuisine that, despite its rich and fatty factor, has maintained a population of skinny men, women and children in France. Well, French cuisine is not what it used to be, and as a result the frogs, aka French people, are putting on some good old American plump lately. And you don’t want to hear who one culinary expert is blaming. There I was sitting with my food writer buddy Patty Talorico at a book signing in Greenville, DE. Being a foodie myself, I’m always looking for reasons too listen to… -
Rolling Resume: USING YOUR RIDE TO FIND A JOB
1 Jul 2009 | 5:27 amSince early June, Kwaku Twumasi, 34, has been driving all around the posh neighborhoods of Dallas selling himself on the windows of his Chevy Tahoe. Twumasi was laid off from his analyst job at management consulting firm Accenture in November and has been looking for a job to no avail ever since. I first saw the photo of his vehicular billboard thanks to a Twitter tweet from @abalderrama: “Clever job seekers. Aka honk if you want to hire me.” I retweeted the story he referenced and then decided I needed to talk to the person behind the ad. I figured I’d find a desperate job… -
High Court sets minority advancement rights on fire
30 Jun 2009 | 5:50 amMany corporations, municipalities, and nonprofits across the country have programs and procedures to help advance women and minorities into leadership roles. Why? There are still few of them represented in the nation’s corner offices. Today, all those advancement initiatives are in legal limbo. The Supreme Court decided yesterday that a group of New Haven, CT, white firefighters, and one Hispanic firefighter, were discriminated against when a promotions test they took and passed was scrapped by city officials because no African American firefighters passed the exam. The white… -
“The Man” is watching — your waistline
29 Jun 2009 | 5:18 amEmployers, aka Big Brothers, aka Richard Simmons wannabes, want you to drop and give them twenty. Aaron Lefkove, who works for a publishing firm in Manhattan, gets periodic memos and emails from his HR department reminding him to walk more, and offering tips on staying fit and diet. The notes haven’t really helped. He knows he shouldn’t be eating the cheeseburger and curly fries special from the deli across the street from his office, but he does, often. The deal is $5 and it’s yummy. “It’s a great stress reliever and the deal of the century,” says Lefkove, whose employer… -
The future: Pissed off workers
26 Jun 2009 | 7:41 amWhen companies treat workers like yesterday’s garbage those workers eventually get pretty foul — foul toward their employers that is. Right now, is seems almost every company is using the recession as an excuse for cutting pay, scaling back benefits, furloughing workers, and making workers work double duty because they’ve slashed so many jobs. It’s unclear whether all these firms really had to take out the employee machete, but one thing is clear — the tenuous loyalty among American workers will be further bloodied when the recession is over. A recent workplace…
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Employee Engagement Zingers
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Working Poem…An Ode to Personal Branding
2 Jul 2009 | 3:57 amThe Pathway to Personal Branding … Are you branded? Painted and tainted by marketing mavens. Packaged like a box of Tide Until soap stings your eyes … Can you be a personal brand without a logo a swoosh a blog a tweet or a tightly rehearsed 30 second elevator speech? … Would you ever want to be stuck in an elevator sealed in as the door closes and your 13-floor traveling companion regales you with their pithy elevator speech when all you asked was, “what floor?” … My father, the irreverent CPR railroad executive offered me his leadership legacy: “Son… -
Happy Canada Day: Dave Pollard on What Canada Could Be
1 Jul 2009 | 3:11 amWhat Canada Could Be Dave Pollard wrote this wonderful piece on what Canada could be on his site: How to Save the World. I was so moved by it I asked his permission to reprint it and offer it here in celebration of Canada Day. Even if you are not from Canada it will give you a better idea of what Canada could be. Enjoy the post and I also encourage you to follow Dave’s site: How to Save the World. It’s not easy being Canadian. You get ignored by most of the world, and never taken seriously (Ambrose Bierce’s definition of humanity: “An animal so lost in rapturous… -
Energy Co-Creators: The Raw Material of Employee Engagement
30 Jun 2009 | 3:11 amWhat role does energy play in employee engagement? Do you have the energy for engagement? Does your energy engage others? How do you recharge for full engagement? Rosa Say on Leadership and Management Energy. Are you using an energy lens to examine engagement in your workplace. I strongly encourage you to read Rosa Say’s recent post on 3 ways managers create energetic workplaces. Say’s snippets. Read then practice the recommendations in the article. Here were a few of Rosa’s very helpful statements: Workplace energy functions the same way batteries do for your favorite… -
Engage 5 with Samantha Grant
29 Jun 2009 | 2:45 amEngage 5 is a weekly feature of Employee Engagement Zingers. Engage-5 asks leading thinkers, writers, consultants, and others involved in employee engagement to complete 5 sentences. Read Samantha Grant’s 5 sentences on engagement: I define employee engagement as connectedness, inspiration, willingness to contribute to a big cause or the common good. Our biggest challenge in employee engagement is listening openly and without judgment.. A powerful way to create greater employee engagement is foster creativity in individuals and teams, and stimulate a spirit of shared purpose and fun. I… -
Employee Engagement and Your Team
28 Jun 2009 | 4:51 amHere is a very good basic slide presentation by Amir Saif on employee engagement and engaged team members: Re Assign Team View more presentations from Amir Saif .
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J.T. and Dale Talk Jobs
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When Should I Tell My Boss I’m Moving & Need To Quit?
1 Jul 2009 | 7:03 pmDear J.T. & Dale: I’m about to purchase a home 100 miles away from where I presently work. Should I tell my current boss that I plan on moving as soon as I find a job in my new city, or should I just wait until I find a new job? (If I tell my boss in advance, I think I could get a good reference from him, maybe even a letter of recommendation that I can use in my job search.) — Mary Dale:Well, Mary, you wouldn’t be asking the question if you didn’t feel that you had a great relationship with your boss. However, even if you two are friends, when you announce that you… -
Can You Collect Unemployment While Having An Unpaid Job?
1 Jul 2009 | 6:56 pmDear J.T. & Dale: I graduated from college last spring and was hired as a para-educator (teacher’s assistant) at a middle school. My position is considered part time, so I do not receive any pay over the summer. Friends say that I should collect unemployment over the summer if I can’t find temporary work, but I’m worried that the school district will frown upon this and that my position could potentially be in danger. Thoughts? — June J.T.: I would suggest asking the school administrators, teachers and fellow “paras” what others have done in the past to… -
Take Your Vacation…And Don’t Come Back
25 Jun 2009 | 8:48 amDear J.T. & Dale: I’m an RN who was recently terminated. The reason given was “communication” and that my “attitude has been bad for weeks.” I was sent home twice in the week I was terminated. I was instructed by HR to approach my boss to initiate a conversation. The talk was interrupted by a phone call, so I stepped out of the office. I waited, but eventually left. (It was the end of the day.) The next day, my boss waved my vacation request in my face and said, “You can have your vacation,” and then stated that my employment was being severed. I… -
My Work History Is Being Held For Ransom
25 Jun 2009 | 8:35 amDear J.T. & Dale: The company I work for hired an outside firm to handle employment verification. Now if I leave and get offered a new job, the verification company will demand that the prospective employer pay a $13 fee. I feel like my work history is being held for ransom. Why would an employer consider hiring me if they can get other people without the hassle? — Mike J.T.: I have never heard of a company requiring payment for employment verification, although, believe it or not, I can see the business rationale. They probably have grown tired of performing functions that have no… -
Must I Give Social Security Number On Job Application?
16 Jun 2009 | 3:17 pmDear J.T. & Dale: I’m not comfortable giving my Social Security number when filling out an application for a job. Is it really necessary? — Rick J.T.: Many companies ask for your Social Security number because they anticipate doing a background check if they decide to offer you a job. If you’re uncomfortable putting it on the application, just write in that you will furnish it to them upon a job offer. Dale: Which brings us to your question of whether it’s necessary. It’s necessary for a background check, and, let’s face it, it’s probably necessary to…
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All Things Workplace
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Leadership: Coaching Clarity Needed
2 Jul 2009 | 3:40 amWhat does Leadership Development actually mean? The folks at CO2 Partners completed a survey some time back of 3,447 individuals, about 90 percent of whom are middle-to-senior-level managers. They asked this question: “If you were to receive coaching at work, what focus would be of the greatest benefits to you? (Please select all that apply.)” The results of the survey of 3,447 individuals, about 90 percent of whom are middle- to senior-level managers, are as follows: Leadership development: 59.8 percent Communication skills: 47.8 percent Organizational and political savvy: 31.5… -
Best of Leadership Blogs 2009
1 Jul 2009 | 8:45 pmI'm honored that All Things Workplaceis nominated for the third annual Best of Leadership Blogs 2009 competition, hosted by Kevin Eikenberry at Remarkable LeadershipVoting will take place throughout July with the winner being announced on Monday, August 3rd.I've been a reader of most of these blogs, either occasionally or as a subscriber. This offers a good excuse for students and practitioners of leadership to see what--and how--different people approach the topic. The Ten FinalistsLeading Blog by Michael McKinneyGreat Leadership by Dan McCarthy Seth Godin’s Blog by Seth GodinJon… -
How Wisdom, Discernment, and Integrity Matter
30 Jun 2009 | 9:04 pmBuilding leaders is on almost every organization's agenda. Hiring good people can be a costly process. Losing employees--regardless of cause--can be equally expensive.Wisdom, Discernment, and Integrity in Business created a lot of buzz, especially on Twitter. And whether the long-time, ongoing issues are How One Bad Apple Can Create a Toxic Team, Crazy Co-workers , Bad Bosses, or the rule of No Assholes, people in the workplace are apparently driving other people in the workplace crazy. What's Happening In Organizations? Corporations have HR professionals, behavioral interview training,… -
Pay Attention to the Spirit of Change
30 Jun 2009 | 6:32 amWe business types seem to enjoy--and gravitate towards--discussions about Change. And it's almost always in the context of managing it, leading it, overcoming resistance to it...as if Change is somehow different than life.It isn't. It is life. Which means that how we approach our lives and what comes our way will influence how we approach things that are new and different at work. How we choose to respond to changes will determine our sense of success and contentment, regardless of what comes our way.It is, in fact, a spiritual issue. The world view that you possess will determine how you… -
Change, Transitions, and You
29 Jun 2009 | 4:46 am"Things do not change; we change." Henry David ThoreauYou've read the self-help books and sites that talk about the "comfort zone" and how you need to step out of it. Like much advice, it's a bit too simplistic. It's a one-liner that doesn't account for personal style and disposition. My real issue is with the sweeping statement that "change" requires a lot of effort and mental energy.It All Depends: What's Your Preference?When you boil it down psychologically, there are two types of people: those who score high on Openness and those who score low on Openness in the Big Five Personality…
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FORTIFY YOUR OASIS
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R.I.P.
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Digging up dirt on Job Applicants
22 Jun 2009 | 11:30 pmI spotted this on Techdirt ...The city of Bozeman, Montana is getting serious about digging up potential dirt on its future employees. As part of the application form, you have to sign a waiver allowing city officials to probe into: "background, references, character, past employment, education, credit history, criminal or police records." Okay, nothing particularly unusual there.But the the form goes on to require you to: "list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to:… -
Father's Day
22 Jun 2009 | 12:00 amIt was Father's Day yesterday and I had a lovely fuss made of me by all the women in my life, apart from the dog, who still seems to be convinced that I am going to tear her throat out with my teeth any moment now. Breakfast consisted of Wine Gums and Jaffa Cakes, delivered by Jane, aged 9. Actual breakfast was a big fry-up plus scrambled eggs with lashings of butter made by Lynn, aged 11. Then I was handed another cup of tea and the newspaper and carefully directed to the couch. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop but it never did. A gentle, floating and happy day.My Pop missed… -
The Peter Principle turns 40
14 Jun 2009 | 11:00 pmFrom the Sunday Times:BEWARE THE ACCIDENTAL MANAGERPeople are still being promoted beyond their abilities, 40 years after a book highlighted the problem, writes John CraddenIt's hard to view the Zune as anything other than a product of Pointy-Haired-Boss thinking.The timing is probably a coincidence, but it's remarkable all the same. Just as we are witnessing the fallout from a prolonged period of disastrous financial management, a ground-breaking business book about incompetence has been republished in a 40th anniversary edition. The Peter Principle, written as a satire by Canadians Laurence… -
TEDx Dublin Overview and Pics
12 Jun 2009 | 3:30 pmSo ... I'm a TEDster.Just back in from TEDx Dublin. I'll provide more detail in a later posting, but here's a quick overview. 100 or so of us in the auditorium in the Science Gallery in Dublin, with an overflow video feed room next door. Three speakers and two video talks for an excellent hour and 40 minutes in all.TEDx Dublin twittered its way into life as a result of Dr Aaron Quigley from my alma mater sticking a couple of 140 character musings up into the cloud some 18 days ago. Some of the nice folks in the Science Gallery saw his, "Wouldn't it be cool if ...?" tweets and said, "Why, you…
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Jon Gordon's Blog | Developing Positive Leaders, Organizations and Teams
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Seize the Moment
29 Jun 2009 | 6:04 amI can recall many moments in my life where the spotlight and pressure was on me and I rose to the occasion and hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth. I can also remember many moments where I failed under pressure and walked away knowing I didn’t do by best. Oh, how I wish I could go back in time and change my moments of defeat. I wish I was granted a “DO OVER” and given the opportunity to change history. But that only works in movies. Unfortunately I can’t change the past, but I can learn from it to improve in the future. I can learn why I succeeded in some moments and failed in… -
The Greatest Sales Strategy Ever
22 Jun 2009 | 4:45 amAs a student of people and ideas I have to admit that what two guys are doing in a Northeast Florida Starbucks is absolutely genius. The other day as I tried to pay for my green tea at my local Starbucks the cashier said, “Don’t worry about it sir. Those guys over there are paying for it today.” She then handed me their business card from a stack by the register. Turns out the guys were wealth management / financial planners who once a week, at different times, will spend a few hours at this Starbucks and buy customers their coffee or tea. Most people, like me, will walk… -
5 Positive Leadership Strategies
15 Jun 2009 | 6:30 amThese are uncertain times. Employees are questioning how their industry and job will be impacted by the current economy. They’re unsure about what action to take. Unfortunately this uncertainly creates what I call a VOID and my theory is that where there is a VOID negativity will fill it. When there is a void of clear and positive communication people start to assume the worst and act accordingly. At the root, it’s all about fear. When we are uncertain, fear and negativity creep in and dominate our thoughts, behavior and actions. This leads to a lack of trust, decreased productivity,… -
Will Smith’s Secret to Success
8 Jun 2009 | 3:25 amWhat does a treadmill have to do with Will Smith’s success as a movie star and actor? Everything! When asked by an interviewer to explain his success, he responded: “I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be outworked. You may be more talented than me. You might be smarter than me. And you may be better looking than me. But if we get on a treadmill together you are going to get off first or I’m going to die. It’s really that simple. I’m not going to be outworked.” But what about his talent you might ask. After all, he is charismatic, funny and a great actor. Isn’t… -
Why Are Tiger Woods, Oprah, and Bill Gates Uncomfortable?
1 Jun 2009 | 4:41 amThey are uncomfortable because they are the best at what they do…and the best are never comfortable with where they are. Why? Because they have a burning desire to improve and grow and this naturally creates a healthy discomfort. Most people think that the best live a life of blissful ease and bask in the glow of their success but that is not the case. Rather the best are always thinking of ways they can take their “game” to the next level and they’re always pushing themselves out of their comfort zone. You can do the same. You just have to be willing to be uncomfortable. You have to…
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College Recruiter
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Interview With Jennifer McClure at #SHRM09
2 Jul 2009 | 1:21 pmJennifer McClure did a few minute long video interview of me at the Society for Human Resource Management 2009 annual conference in New Orleans. We talked about CollegeRecruiter.com in general; our new partnerships with America's Job Exchange and TwitterJobSearch; our new webinars for students, career service office professionals, and employers; and my impressions of the SHRM conference. Want to watch? Click the video below. -
New Webinar Service Warmly Greeted at #SHRM09
29 Jun 2009 | 6:46 amThe Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) 2009 annual conference opened yesterday afternoon with a keynote by legendary CEO, Jack Welch. Most of the 10,000+ paid attendees then made their way from the main presentation room at the mile long New Orleans Convention Center over to the massive exhibit hall to begin their discussions with the hundreds of exhibitors as well as snack on catfish fingers, gumbo, mushroom caps, beer, wine, soda, and more. The exhibit hall was open from 4 until 7pm yesterday and traffic to the CollegeRecruiter.com booth was pretty good from 4 until about 6:15pm… -
Want an Internship? Get Aggressive.
26 Jun 2009 | 12:55 pmJuly is right around the corner and this terrible job market for college students and recent graduates has snuffed out the chances that they had for landing an internship. Or did it? If you haven't landed that great internship yet, get more aggressive. I'm not talking about getting your friends in New Jersey to put a horse's head into the bed of the hiring manager but instead literally calling up your target companies. Lauren Berger a/k/a The Intern Queen did just that when she was a freshman in college and landed the first of her many internships. Intrigued? Watch her recent interview on Fox… -
10,000 Attendees Expected for #SHRM09
24 Jun 2009 | 3:14 pmI've been to several of the annual conferences put on by the Society for Human Resource Management and they've all been huge. Hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of attendees. Did I say huge? This year's show promises to be almost as big as those of the past couple of years but the layoffs and budget cutbacks have hurt SHRM's numbers just like they have virtually every other organization out there. Yet even with those cuts, SHRM still expects 10,000 paid attendees to descend upon the conference in New Orleans. Wow. CollegeRecruiter.com will be well represented at this year's annual SHRM… -
The Idiocy of Making Job Seekers Jump Through Hoops
23 Jun 2009 | 10:17 amSpring and fall seem to be the busiest times of the year for recruiting conferences so it is at times like this when I'm most able to connect face-to-face with employers and college career service office professionals. And it is at times like this when I am reminded how -- pardon my French -- idiotic some recruiting practices can be. Many but probably not most recruiters, hiring managers, and other human resource professionals believe that it is a good thing to force candidates to feel some pain in order to apply to a job. That might mean a lengthy application form, an on-line assessment, or…
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Career College Central
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21st-century Skills Movement Grows
2 Jul 2009 | 7:01 amIllinois, Louisiana, and Nevada have become the latest states to join the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), a national effort to integrate 21st-century skills into teaching and learning to prepare students for a global, information-based economy. P21 made the announcement at the end of a recent Cyber Summit, which ran online June 1-9. The summit featured a series of nine webinars that gave policy makers and educators a chance to collaborate, share ideas, and learn from their colleagues who have implemented 21st-century skills programs in their own states and school systems. read more -
Alissa Tarr Appointed Assistant Director Of Admissions
2 Jul 2009 | 7:00 amFort Myers, Fla., (June 30, 2009) – Alissa Tarr believes she has gotten to where she is today because she takes on opportunities as they present themselves and she instills that in her work each day. Quoting Babe Ruth in the signature of her emails – “Never let the fear of striking get in your way,” Tarr jumped at the opportunity to work in admissions because she said she “enjoys working with the public and wanted to help people to create more opportunities for themselves.” Tarr began her career at Southwest Florida College in December of 2007 as an Associate Registrar. She enjoys… -
Kaplan to Move Operations to Alpharetta
2 Jul 2009 | 6:57 amEducation and career services company, Kaplan Inc., signed a lease Wednesday for a nearly 100,000-square-foot building in Alpharetta, which the company said would accommodate its growing back office functions and bring 75 new jobs to the northern metro area. New York City-based Kaplan has occupied a 34,000-square-foot facility at 3750 Brookside Parkway in Atlanta since 2005. Its 344 current employees and will move to Alpharetta in September. read more -
Western International University Recognized for Workplace Flexibility and Effectiveness
2 Jul 2009 | 6:54 am(PRWEB) July 1, 2009 -- Western International University (WIU) was named a winner of the 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility Thursday, June 11, 2009, distinguishing the employer as a leading practitioner of workplace flexibility in Phoenix and across the nation. This is the second consecutive year that WIU has received the award. WIU was recognized at its Phoenix and Scottsdale campuses as Sloan Award winners and their Chandler campus received an honorable mention for this prestigious national award. read more -
Major Changes Coming For Pell Grant Repayment
2 Jul 2009 | 6:43 amWASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Wednesday, a new repayment option changed to make monthly payments more affordable for Americans with heavy federal student loan burdens. Recent changes to Pell Grant student lending offer changes that can affect future and past students who borrow for college. A new "income-based repayment plan" protects borrowers by linking payments to income and family size. A related new program offers additional benefits to those working in public service jobs. read more
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Execpundit
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Despair Wear
2 Jul 2009 | 8:31 amSome unusual t-shirts from Despair.com:Community Chest [Too big to fail]Social media [Twitter]Government Motors [GM] -
The Moments of Jobs
2 Jul 2009 | 8:17 amA Fortune review: The top ten moments in the career of Steve JobsIt's hardly an unfettered rise. Consider how many things could have gone wrong and how many did. -
Getting It Done
2 Jul 2009 | 7:55 amCheck this out: Chip Brantley evaluates web-based task managersThe winner might be a surprise to some. -
Quote of the Day
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Giving It Away
1 Jul 2009 | 3:28 pmWriting in The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell wonders if the future is going to be free. An excerpt:At a hearing on Capitol Hill in May, James Moroney, the publisher of the Dallas Morning News, told Congress about negotiations he’d just had with the online retailer Amazon. The idea was to license his newspaper’s content to the Kindle, Amazon’s new electronic reader. “They want seventy per cent of the subscription revenue,” Moroney testified. “I get thirty per cent, they get seventy per cent. On top of that, they have said we get the right to republish your intellectual property to…
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WebWorkerDaily
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Why I Don’t Hide That I Work At Home
2 Jul 2009 | 4:00 pmWeb workers, especially those of us who are self-employed, will sometimes encounter people who, it seems, take us less seriously because we don’t have a corporate cube to work in. There are two ways to deal with this. Some web workers go to great lengths to mask that our office and home are one and the same. We can use P.O. box or mailbox suite addresses, and install separate phone lines that we can always answer with a business salutation. We might keep rigidly to business hours and avoid any reference in conversation that would reveal our office/home marriage. Of course, there is… -
The Value of Twitter Followers: Quality Over Quantity
2 Jul 2009 | 1:00 pmTwitter followers have become the status symbol of 2009, but how valuable are they, really? I think we’re placing too much importance on the numbers and paying far too little attention to the actual reasons why followers can be valuable to us. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t want to have a lot of followers. I’m saying that you don’t want to have a lot of the wrong followers. There is nothing to be gained by accumulating “empty” followers. Why? Because they are not listening to you! Your core followers — those you who actually listen to you and… -
Streamline Photo Sharing on Multiple Social Networks
2 Jul 2009 | 11:00 amHere are a couple of ways to be more efficient when it comes to sharing your photos online from events. Like most web workers, you’re probably on many different social networks. How do you share those great photos from the event with all of your contacts on all of your social networks, without having to log in to each one separately? Fortunately, there are ways to automate the process of cross-posting photos to many different services at one time. Flickr One of the best ways to broadcast your photos is via Flickr. It’s very simple to set up, and the results will save you a great deal… -
Web Work 101: Jumping Into Your Web Business
2 Jul 2009 | 9:00 amStarting a business can be a huge undertaking, but fortunately for the aspiring web worker, it doesn’t have to be. The really great thing about starting a web working business is that getting set up can be easy and low cost. You don’t need a fancy set-up. You can get by with a few basic necessities (in most cases, a computer, an Internet connection, a web site and maybe some business cards). You don’t need to quit your day job. You can keep working at your current job until your web work picks up enough to support you. You can work around your current obligations. You can… -
3 Options for Sharing Your Project Research
2 Jul 2009 | 7:00 amWhen it comes to collaborative projects, there’s one area where I’ve found it particularly easy to trip up, especially if you’re working with a team you never see in person. As you put together the initial research for a project — maybe interview notes for a series of blog posts, great examples for a web site design, or the figures for a marketing plan — keeping the information organized and accessible for everyone involved can be a major hassle. In the past, I primarily used wikis for this sort of information organization, but they really aren’t the best…
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The HR Capitalist
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SHRM09 Interview - China Gorman On the State of the SHRM National Conference...
2 Jul 2009 | 8:45 amTrue story - I'm getting ready to talk to China Gorman (SHRM COO) on Tuesday at the SHRM National Conference, and a Caucasian dude walks up to China and rips off something like this: China said something back in the same language. Then the dude ripped off something like this: At which point China indicated she didn't speak the language. So the guy points out her nametag and says words to the effect of "But your name is China, so I...." Awkward silence. The guy was dead serious. Dude, If you're reading this today, you were a super nice guy, but I had to share… -
Live Feed - HR Bloggers - Panel at SHRM09
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A Blogging Panel at SHRM Mean's It's Time for the Jerry Springer Show...
1 Jul 2009 | 7:30 amCapitalist Note: I'm on the scene at the SHRM 2009 National Conference in New Orleans. So the news is all-SHRM, all the time. I might bash the organization many love to hate or hug it out with the organization people rely on for cheap access to Sheryl Crow with Convention Center sound quality. I'm tricky like that.... Oh yeah... It's almost time for the blogger's panel at SHRM today (11:30 Central).. Which can only mean one thing: "Let's get ready to Rumbleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"! The session name for our event, officially cleaned up by the SHRM… -
SHRM09 - 3 Reasons Why "SHRM Connect" Will Rock... And 3 Reasons It Will Die a Death That Involves Twitching...
1 Jul 2009 | 6:05 amCapitalist Note: I'm on the scene at the SHRM 2009 National Conference in New Orleans. So the news is all-SHRM, all the time. I might bash the organization many love to hate or hug it out with the organization people rely on for cheap access to Sheryl Crow with Convention Center sound quality. I'm tricky like that.... So SHRM Connect is out in beta form.... For those of you that have no clue, SHRM Connect is the social networking play from SHRM, the pure HR play/answer to Facebook, RecruitingBlogs.com, or every other Ning network you've ever subscribed to. I took a… -
SHRM09 - DAXKO (home of the Capitalist) Named As a Top 50 Place to Work...
30 Jun 2009 | 1:00 pmCool news from SHRM09 - the company I work for, DAXKO, was recognized as one of the top 50 best small and medium companies to work for in America by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Great Place to Work Institute, Inc. (GPTW). Winners were announced Monday at SHRM’s 61st Annual Conference in New Orleans. DAXKO ranked 10th in the small employer category, which is great. The commitment that is behind all the good stuff that led to the award is a big reason I chose to join the DAXKO team 3 months ago. I'm a newbie so no credit goes to me, although like any…
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Forbes.com: Career News
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How To Protect Your Online Reputation
1 Jul 2009 | 12:53 pmThe Web is a viral breeding ground of rumor and scandal. Here's how to keep your own place on it untarnished. -
How To Hire A Great Assistant
30 Jun 2009 | 11:21 amPicking the right one is critical for your own professional and personal well-being. -
Where The Jobs Are: Pharmacist
25 Jun 2009 | 2:35 pmBe a health care provider who is always in demand. -
How To Negotiate For A Better Salary, Even Now
23 Jun 2009 | 1:41 pmYes, you can usually do it, as long as they want you in the first place. -
The Weekly Layoff Report: Rupert Murdoch Joins The Crowd
19 Jun 2009 | 3:30 pmThe billionaire lets go of almost a third of the staff of MySpace.
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Tammy Erickson
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Reconciling Short- and Long-Term Workforce Trends
27 Jun 2009 | 10:31 amMy last post prompted a question that I thought might be worth discussing broadly. JoAnn Becker asked what the major marketplace forces are today and the implications of those forces for the company and the worker — how the recession and shifting talent practices mesh with the trends outlined in the books Workforce Crisis (written for organizations seeking talent), Retire Retirement (written to Boomers), and Plugged In (written to Gen Y's). (My final book in the series, written to Gen X'ers, will be published January 2010.) First, the numbers. My books all describe a world in which the… -
How the Recession Is Changing Talent Management
18 Jun 2009 | 10:23 amBy now we've all heard the phrase that a recession is too precious to waste. Recessions are times when we make changes in the way we do things — consciously or not. Although it would be smart to do it consciously, probably some of the most significant changes have just, well, happened. The shift underway today, embedded in companies' responses to this recession, will have major unintended consequences for the relationship between organizations and the individuals who perform work (I hesitate to even use the word "employees"). As msnbc reported recently, there's been a "furlough frenzy"… -
Why Leaders Should Practice "Pull" Management
13 Jun 2009 | 5:01 pmAn increasing percentage of the work done today depends, as Blanche DuBois might have said, on the kindness of strangers. Your success as a leader hinges on your ability to entice people — many of whom you may never even meet — to want to go the extra mile for your business. Discretionary effort is the life blood of today's economy. As we move to business models that depend on people working together, on innovation, on individual expertise and craft, on crowds contributing to the whole, we must also move sharply away from our traditional concepts regarding the key responsibilities… -
Why Grads Should Take a Gap Year
16 May 2009 | 3:10 pmAs thousands of students pour into the sluggish job market this spring, news sources are trumpeting dramatic stories of graduates whose dreams have been dashed by the current economy. First, I suspect most of these stories are written by Boomers (parents of Y's) who, based on my interviews, are far more distressed by the current events than are most of the Y's. Second, let me assure both students and parents that this year's tight job market is likely to be a small blip on Gen Y's otherwise positive life trajectory. From a long-term, generational perspective, the recession of 2008-09 will… -
Who Are the "Right" People to Invite on Your Bus?
9 May 2009 | 9:14 amI had a chance to spend some time with Jim Collins earlier this week. Over the past decade, he's been working on his third major analytical investigation of strong companies, in this case focusing on how successful companies weather crises. His findings are summarized in a new book is due out later this month — How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In. As part of the conversation, Jim reflected on the lessons he's drawn from his three major research programs, including the two earlier investigations that lead to Good to Great and Built to Last. Of several dozen key…
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Sylvia Ann Hewlett
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Let Gen Y Teach You Tech
29 Jun 2009 | 8:11 amThis post was co-authored by Laura Sherbin and Karen Sumberg. You say you want a revolution? Better set up a Twitter or YouTube account. Once derided as sandboxes for Gen Y slackers, messaging and social networking sites are the new soapboxes, organizing centers, town halls and, as the recent events in Iran have shown, an increasingly powerful news source. Much has been made of the youth engine driving Iran's demonstrations — half of the country's 71 million people are under the age of 25 and nearly two-thirds are under 30. "Just look at a single photo of a rally on… -
Neda and the New Iranian Woman
29 Jun 2009 | 7:16 amThis post was co-authored by Ripa Rashid. Among the images of Iran's anti-government demonstrations flooding the media, none has been as potent as that of Neda, the young woman the world watched bleed to death on the streets of Tehran after being shot, it is believed, by the pro-government militia. Her death was symbolic on two fronts: it put a human face to violent repression, and conjured up the increasingly powerful presence of women in this most Muslim of nations. In contrast to 1979, women are front and center in this uprising. They are shaking their fists, chanting slogans and… -
High-Flying Women Shift Gears in the Recession
24 Apr 2009 | 1:39 pmA voluntary migration is sweeping through the financial sector. On Sunday, April 12, a front-page story in the New York Times documented a Wall Street exodus that goes beyond layoffs to voluntary exits by top talent fleeing to boutique firms, start-ups and elsewhere. This trend is disturbingly true for women. At five top financial firms, twice as many women in top jobs (54%) as men (22%) are considering leaving their positions, according to recent data from the Center for Work-Life Policy. What's noteworthy is why women are headed out, and where they are going. Today's voluntary attrition is… -
Europe Invests in Women Leaders
6 Apr 2009 | 8:41 amIn Europe, the global recession does not seem to be dampening interest in diversity. On the contrary, interest is ramping up. Which begs an intriguing question: does the continent's new enthusiasm for ensuring talented women are admitted into its highest ranks pose a risk for U.S.-based corporations? There's no doubt that American organizations continue to value female talent — and remain in the lead when it comes to promoting women into senior roles. However, in recent months, many U.S. companies have cut spending on programs that ensure women continue their upward climb. Meanwhile,… -
Good Works Can Lengthen Your Life Expectancy
12 Feb 2009 | 8:39 amIs this recession getting you down? Are you stressed out and running scared and feeling it's time to head to the gym or the spa? Think again. It turns out it might make better sense to take yourself off to the nearest soup kitchen. The evidence is clear. Volunteering is remarkably good for you. Helping the homeless or saving the wetlands not only provides food for the soul, it bolsters your immune system, reduces your blood pressure and adds years to your life span. The Corporation for National and Community Service recently pulled together research in this field and was able to demonstrate…
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Marshall Goldsmith
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If You're a Lame Duck, Quack Like One
15 Jun 2009 | 11:18 amFor many leaders, it is hard to make the announcement that they will soon be passing the baton of leadership to their successor. The common fear is that if they declare their intentions too soon, they will become lame ducks. No one wants that to happen. Almost every leader goes through this inner dialogue as part of the challenge of "slowing down." This fear, which often results in postponing the announcement about succession until the last minute, inhibits what could have been a much smoother transition. Face it: When you are nearing the time to exit, you will become a lame duck! That is… -
Making Money in Chaotic Times
1 Jun 2009 | 2:55 pmThis week's question for Ask the Coach: The economy will always have its ups and downs. That's why our company has two playbooks: one for running the company in an up period and another in a down period. If we enter a down period, we immediately switch to the down period playbook with its set of well-defined behaviors. Is this a good idea? And can a company still make money during bad times? To answer your question, I decided to turn to Philip Kotler, the well-known marketing guru at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Phillip has just recently published a book with… -
4 Tips for Efficient Succession Planning
12 May 2009 | 2:02 pmOne of the most common leadership development questions that I hear from executives is, "Why does succession planning feel like such a waste of time?" I do a lot of work on executive coaching and succession with my good friend, Jim Moore. Jim is the former CLO of three major companies. Here are some of our thoughts on how to make leadership succession a more relevant process in your company. Many of the CEOs we talk with these days express concern about the lack of bench strength in their companies. They are very worried that they lack sufficient "ready now" candidates to replace planned &… -
Evaluate How You Fit Your Company Culture
4 May 2009 | 11:37 amThis week's question for Ask the Coach: While moving up the organization, I've noticed a high turnover in the senior ranks. It seems like a lot of talented people who were once successful fail to make the grade. How can I increase the likelihood that I will not end up like these casualties? MG: This is a significant challenge for executives today. How can you avoid being another turnover casualty? Nat Stoddard and Claire Wyckoff recently wrote about this in their new book The Right Leader: Selecting Executives that Fit. I asked them to give us their take on this question. Nat and Claire:… -
Keeping Your People Engaged in Tough Times
17 Apr 2009 | 12:37 pmThis week's question for Ask the Coach: Keeping employees' committed and motivated during tough economic times seems like a tall task, especially after downsizing or program cutbacks. What should I do to keep our employees 'in the game'? Marshall: I hear this concern every where I travel these days. Who doesn't? My friend Joe Wheeler, Executive Director of The Service Profit Chain Institute, recently co-authored a book with Harvard Business School Professors James L. Heskett and W. Earl Sasser, Jr. entitled The Ownership Quotient, Putting The Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable…
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John Baldoni
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What Nonprofits Teach Us About Learning
2 Jul 2009 | 12:31 pmThe recession that has staggered the world economy has leveled the nonprofit world. Endowments have lost significant value, and donations from corporations and private citizens have dwindled. But dealing with hard times is nothing new to many in the nonprofit sector. Well-run nonprofits know how to be frugal as well as creative in how they work with limited resources. A core competency of the nonprofit world is people, men and women who are committed to a cause who know how to get effective results. A virtue of effective nonprofits is their culture; it extends beyond a gathering of… -
How to Collaborate with Your Contractors
29 Jun 2009 | 9:27 amThe other day a good friend of mine called to express the frustration he was feeling about working with his current IT vendor. My friend is in the pre-launch phase of an e-commerce start up and he was discouraged with the lack of progress the vendor is making. He was tempted to pull the plug on the project and award it to someone else. Entrepreneurs feeling frustrated with subcontractor work is nothing new. I know of another start-up executive who is expressing similar feelings about a manufacturing vendor. While the problems entrepreneurs experience with vendors are different, there is a… -
Make Your Place Proud of You
25 Jun 2009 | 9:12 amThere was an excited buzz in the room. By virtue of their animated conversations, it was obvious that these men and women, mostly in their forties, knew each other well. They were gathered for a graduation event, more than twenty intrepid souls who had completed a career transition program sponsored by Spark, a non-profit business development entity located in Southeast Michigan. I had been invited to give the group a leadership pep talk. Some were intent on leaving jobs voluntarily; others had left involuntarily through downsizing; and all wanted to remain in Michigan to begin a new career. -
Great Communicators Are Great Explainers
22 Jun 2009 | 8:37 amIn the months since Barack Obama has taken office, a curious thing has occurred in his communication style. He has toned down the rhetoric and geared up the details. As Don Baer who once worked for President Bill Clinton put it, Obama is now "the Great Explainer." In doing so, Obama is following in the tradition of a previous president, Franklin Roosevelt. At his best, Roosevelt, either on radio or to the press, took on the role of a trusted friend explaining things in simple terms so that anyone could understand them. For example, Roosevelt compared the U.S. program of Lend Lease to Britain… -
Find Ways to Make Good News
18 Jun 2009 | 10:32 amStephen Tyrone Johns died as he lived, helping other people. Johns opened the door for the man who shot him, a white supremacist who opened fire at the Holocaust Museum where Johns worked as a security guard. Friends and co-workers remember Johns, an imposing man who stood six-and-a-half feet tall, as a "gentle giant" who enjoyed his work and was well liked by others. To its credit, CNN.com played the Johns story on its home page on and off for a day or so. Typically the victims don't get much coverage; only the killers. In the coming days and weeks we will still get our fill of information…
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Evil HR Lady
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Read before you sign
24 Jun 2009 | 11:28 pmThis is a long question, so I'm going to break it into parts and answer each part separately. Oh, and Class Factotum, this is for you, since you asked for more posts. I've been busy learning German. I conducted an entire transaction in German yesterday--granted it was just dry cleaning, and I mainly said, "Ja, ja!" but importantly, I knew what she said. At least, I think I did. Maybe when I go to pick up the pants, they'll be dyed purple or something. Anyway, back to our regular topic.My husband gave his 2 week notice on Tuesday because we have decided to move back to the UK. He found out… -
Our Strength Lies in Our...
15 Jun 2009 | 3:41 amUnity. I know you thought I was going to say "our strength lies in our diversity." That (and similar messages) are prevalent. We have diversity committees, VPs of Diversity, affirmative action plans and call minority candidates "diverse candidates." (Which drives me absolutely insane, but that's another topic.)When we moved to Switzerland we enrolled our daughter in one of the most "diverse" schools on the planet. If you were to wander down the halls you would see children with skin colors in all possible shades and colors. A map outside my daughter's classroom identifies the home country for… -
Want to know my thoughts on Brad Pitt?
15 Jun 2009 | 3:36 amOf course you do. Check out why this might help your career. Plus, make sure you read comment 2. It will inform you that I lack character and depth. But, you already knew that. -
Quit or Fired?
11 Jun 2009 | 2:26 amI live in CA. I worked for a small business owner for two plus years. Just recently I gave him two weeks notice in writing. He asked me to stay and stay and stay longer and I said “okay”. That meant that I would be working for him for at least three or four more weeks, maybe more. The next work day, he told me that I did not need to come back and after the close of business I did not come back to work. I have not received my last paycheck, for that single day and do not expect that I will be paid for more than the hours worked in that one day. I have been told by others that I have been… -
Missing my posts?
5 Jun 2009 | 2:58 amI don't think I've ever posted an actual link to where I write at US News, so here it is! The other bloggers over there are fantastic as well.Just a little light reading.
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What Would Dad Say
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Susan Boyle, Re Deux
2 Jul 2009 | 10:05 amThere is nothing more American than rooting for the underdog. We love to see the disadvantaged, the ill equipped, the young, the old, what ever and whoever do well and succeed. That is why the Susan Boyle video was so popular. ( She was the British frump singer of a few months back. See her video here.) You may have missed her American counterpart Kevin Skinner, the unemployed chicken farmer from Kentucky. Here’s his five minute performance on “America’s Got Talent.” -
What You Can Do When You Are Doing More That What You Were Hired For
1 Jul 2009 | 7:32 amA reader sent me this question: Over the last two years, I have been given more and more responsibilities but no extra salary and no title adjustment. Will this hurt me when I start looking for a new job? It would be nice to have a better title on my resume. Since this question pertains to just about 362,000 other people in the same situation, I thought I would try to answer it here. First and foremost, this won’t hurt you, far from it. What this proves and demonstrates to a future employer is that you are willing to do extra work, that you are capable of more and are not one of those… -
Kristin Keeps Looking
1 Jul 2009 | 4:37 amEd Note: This continues the series following a recent college grad as she looks for that all-important first job. Thanks to all those who have offered to help. by Kristin Davie, for WWDS Thanks to all of the handy forums, websites, and newsletters I’ve stalked subscribed to over the past few months, I’m seldom without a plethora of job listings to peruse. Granted, I still have yet to land an entry level position (sigh). Without the copious amount of advertisements, however, I’d currently be starring on an episode of Intervention on A&E for addiction to poorly written soap operas… -
In Honor of Al Franken Winning: Paris Hilton for Congress
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Switcheroo:Cosi Fan Tutti
30 Jun 2009 | 8:28 am
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Karen Burns, Working Girl
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And Da Winner Is…….
2 Jul 2009 | 2:18 pmThe results of The Amazing Adventures of Working Girl Twitter Contest are in. Are you ready? Yes? Okay, with no further ado, the winner is (drum roll, please) @skariann! Just as soon as she contacts Working Girl, a nice crisp new book will be in the mail to her. Woo-hoo! The secret to her success? She submitted (i.e., retweeted) multiple times. Hmmm. There’s got to be a moral to this story in there somewhere. That was fun. So fun that you may just be seeing another Twitter contest sometime soon. After all….it’s summer. Let’s amuse ourselves. -
Get A Job Just By Talking
1 Jul 2009 | 10:50 amHow long have you known how to talk? Since, um, forever? Easy, isn’t it? This is talking as in having a real conversation–you know, the kind where you (1) exchange thoughts, (2) listen at least half the time, and (3) make a real human connection. Good news! That’s what a job interview is. Find out more over at today’s U.S. News & World Report post. -
Win A Book On Twitter
30 Jun 2009 | 8:14 amHello Tweeples! Welcome to the first THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF WORKING GIRL TWITTER CONTEST. The rules are oh so simple. Simply retweet the tweet (i.e., “Retweet this & win a free signed Amazing Adventures of Working Girl. Info here + link”) that brought you to this page. Do so, as often as you like, before midnight (Pacific time) Wednesday, July 1st, 2009. Everyone who retweets (please note: you gotta include @workinggirl) will be eligible for a drawing to win the book – The Amazing Adventures of Working Girl: Real Life Career Advice You Can Actually Use. … -
No-Nos For New Jobs
29 Jun 2009 | 12:34 pmA friend just landed a new job! Woo-hoo! She phoned with the good news and then asked this question, “Do you have any tips for how I should act my first week on the job?” Ha. Of course, WG has tips. Weirdly, they seem to all be negative–what not to do. Hmmm. Anyway, here they are: Don’t be late. Are you thinking, “Duh”? But being late that first week brands you as a tardy person. You don’t want this. Even if you are on time every day for the next YEAR, some people will still regard you as the kind of person who’s not on… -
7 Ways To Flub A Job Hunt
24 Jun 2009 | 10:51 amYes, you can lie on your resume. Or forget to wear deodorant. Or fiddle with your BlackBerry on the interview. And now, courtesy of the 21st century, there are a few more ways you can shoot yourself in the foot while hunting for a job. Seven, to be exact. Check them out in today’s U.S. News & World Report post.
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Satisfying Career - Happier Life
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Post Layoff Thoughts and Advice on Getting Back in the Workforce
10 Jun 2009 | 2:32 pmI have been reading a lot of articles almost every day on how people are coping with layoffs and the advice online and in the newspapers on how to make a comeback or how to just cope with what you are going through. There is a lot of great advice and thought would compile it all here, of course acknowledging the resource after each of these… hope it helps you or just pass it around to those who might need it.With the unemployment rate for women in the United States at 5.4 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, women are trying to navigate an economic storm. It has created… -
Is YouTube your new "Hire-Me" Launch Pad
1 Jun 2009 | 10:45 amZee Avi originally posted a video of her first song on YouTube because one of her friends had missed her first performance in Kuala Lumpur, so she created a video on YouTube for him to watch. He convinced Avi to leave the video up, and soon she received positive feedback, which inspired her to put more videos on YouTube. After she was featured YouTube, she attracted the attention of Brushfire Records, with which she would join. Her song "No Christmas For Me" is featured on Brushfire Records's 2008 Christmas album This Warm December: A Brushfire Holiday.[4] Her single "Bitter Heart" was first… -
Beware - Bogus Job and Career Websites may be an Identity Theft Trap
27 May 2009 | 8:55 pmWith the U.S. unemployment rate approaching double digits, it is not surprising that many Americans are prepared to do whatever it takes to gain employment. In fact, data security experts at Kroll Fraud Solutions have seen some consumers resort to a “desperate times call for desperate measures” approach, loosening their data security practices by divulging personal information to recruiters, businesses, and job search sites alike in the hopes of increasing their chances of securing a job.The bad news is that identity thieves are well aware of this increased vulnerability among job seekers… -
5 Ways to find out if Entrepreneurship is for you
20 May 2009 | 1:00 pmIf the answer to these is yes, then entrepreneurship can be for you:You are brimming with numerous innovative (or at least a couple) ideas and you can visualize how to translate your dreams into practical ideas and above all you are passionate and persistent to work towards making your dreams see the daylight.You can take control of managing your time and do not need anyone else to monitor your tasks and goals. You are self-directed and motivated when working solo.You understand and are hands on the basic financial management – preferably mid-level if not expert. You understand what… -
What do you want to be when you grow up?
20 May 2009 | 11:48 amWhere do you see yourself in your present job say 6 years from now? If not where you are at present, what would you rather do –Join another company in similar field but with different responsibilities – either to earn more than you do at present or for power position opportunity?OrJust do what inspires you and was a cherished dream somewhere back down the lane when making a dough pile was not the incentive to work?What did you want to be when you were young and what do you want to be when you grow up?Layoffs are forcing many of us in entrepreneurship and personal ventures for which we…
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Microsoft JobsBlog: Blog
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Tell me more about Support at Microsoft
1 Jul 2009 | 6:40 pmDear JobsBlog: What can you tell me about working in technical support at Microsoft? I see a lot of info on what it’s like to work on an engineering team but not a lot about support. Help! -Support Guru Dear Support Guru: I asked Heather from the Microsoft Customer Service & Support Careers Blog to stop by and share how to learn more about careers in Customer Service & Support (CSS). Others have been asking for more info on CSS, too, so look for more technical support and services careers info here on JobsBlog soon! GretchenGet… -
Preparing your online profile for employers
10 Jun 2009 | 3:13 pmIn a phone interview during my last job hunt, an interviewer (not at Microsoft) asked me if I had a Facebook account. Since we weren’t meeting in person, he wanted to put a face with the name. It made sense that he would want a visual, but my heart sunk when I thought about what he might see: “Am I holding a martini glass in my profile picture? Did I set my birthday party photos to private? Will he be able to access the outlandish comments friends post on my wall?”You can imagine my relief when I found that I had indeed set my profile to private and my photo was a smiley… -
Tips and Advice vs Giving Away the Farm: My $0.02
15 May 2009 | 11:16 amNow that you’ve seen where I’m coming from in terms of tips and advice, I feel it’s time to introduce my top six pieces of Kenji® branded recruiter advice. Handle with care!1. Your interview is a two-way street: You should want to know as much about the team, product and position you’re interviewing for as the team wants to know about you. If not, time to take a step back and question why you’re interviewing in the first place. Sorry, I know the economy is horrible, but just wanting a job is not a good enough reason. 2. Be prepared: Do your research. Though… -
Strengths and weaknesses revisited
13 May 2009 | 7:51 pmNot long after JobsBlog started in 2004, Gretchen answered a reader who wanted to know what he should say when an interviewer asked him to describe his strengths and weaknesses. Five years later, that post is still one of the most popular articles on this site. Gretchen’s advice remains relevant, of course, and we encourage you to read it – but we thought we’d give you an update from varying viewpoints. Check out what Kenji, Lisa and Matt have to say about this infamous interview question! I used to ask this question as part of my regular morning interview, though it has… -
Tips and Advice vs Giving Away the Farm: Is there such a thing?
8 May 2009 | 1:34 pmI admit -- this is a concept I struggle with. Like I’ve said in previous posts, as your recruiter I want you to be set up for success, and I want to help provide the toolbox to get you there. But at the same time, I also want you to do well on your own horsepower as much as possible.It’s a frustrating conundrum. I want you to succeed, but I want you to interview as you -- perhaps the best representation of you, but still you. Paraphrasing Chris Rock’s joke on dating describes it almost perfectly: When you’re on a first date, you’re not you. You’re the…
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Manager Skills And Management Development - Articles
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Zig On…Why Worry?
1 Jul 2009 | 12:00 amWorry has been described as “interest paid on trouble before it comes due.” One of America’s worst enemies is worry. Worry is like a rocking chair, it requires a lot of energy and it gets you nowhere. Leo Buscaglia said, “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” -
Establishing Dreams and Goals
29 Jun 2009 | 11:30 pmOne of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams... -
Make Your Message Memorable! Darren as a Prop?
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How 3 Motivational Quotes Can Enhance Your Life
24 Jun 2009 | 12:00 amGirl power is very much in full force as evidenced by the number of women athletes we have. We have professional golf players, energetic tennis players, competitive swimmers, and more. Women have infiltrated almost every sport known to the world. What better way to motivate yourself then than to read inspirational quotes from famous women athletes? -
3 Powerful Ways To Succeed In Life
23 Jun 2009 | 11:30 pmThe keys to success in life lie in the kind of values you have. Are you an honest sort of person? Do you tell the truth or do you make up stories whenever you think you can get away with it? Have you donated to charity lately? How do you handle losing in a competition? Your answers to these questions hold the keys to success in life. Read this article to learn more!
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Michael Lee Stallard
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Leadership Speaker for ASTD and Linkage
30 Jun 2009 | 8:40 amI’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be speaking for two of the world’s leading organizations in the training and development field. On July 23rd I’ll be speaking about how Connection Cultures relate to leadership, employee engagement, productivity and innovation in an hour long presentation via Webex to members of ASTD (the American Society for Training and Development). ASTD is the world’s largest association dedicated to workplace learning and performance professionals with 80,000 members from more than 100 countries. On December 10, I will be at the… -
Intrapreneurs: Find a Work Environment to Help You Thrive
29 Jun 2009 | 7:40 amIf you aspire to be a successful intrapreneur, seek a healthy work environment. There are organizations with healthy work environments that energize employees and others that suck the life out of them. Unfortunately, the latter dominate. According to research from Gallup, over the last decade, 75 percent of American workers reported that they were not engaged in their jobs. Here’s what you should be looking for in a work environment that will help you thrive. The Right People First, the person you report to is the most important factor that determines your level of engagement at… -
Culture Change = Compelling Values + Portfolio of Stories
26 Jun 2009 | 6:04 amMario Sundar at Marketing Nirvana just wrote about changing corporate culture with corporate storytelling. I agree that leaders should have a portfolio of stories they tell that bring corporate values to life. In addition, I recommend that leaders clearly articulate their values in writing. The corporate mission, strategy and objectives express what has to be done. Clearly articulated values in writing help make it clear how work is to be done and how it is not to be done. Here is one of the best expressions of values by a leader that I’ve seen. It comes from the commander… -
Guy Kawasaki: “Connection Culture” a “must read”
20 Jun 2009 | 6:39 amGuy Kawasaki, Founding Partner of Garage Technology Ventures, best-selling author and Entrepreneur magazine columnist, just wrote on his Twitter that “The Connection Culture: A New Source of Competitive Advantage” is a “must read.” I hope you’ll agree! Guy also posted about it on his Open Forum blog. You can download it for free by clicking here. -
Connection Critical to Healthcare
14 Jun 2009 | 3:05 pmLately I’ve been thinking a lot about healthcare organizations. I recently spoke in New Haven to nearly 500 managers at Yale-New Haven Hospital and in Philadelphia to a group of CEOs that included several leaders from the Cancer Treatment Centers of America. I’ve written from the patient’s perspective about my wife Katie’s battles with breast and advanced ovarian cancer and about Dr. Herb Pardes, head of New York-Presbyterian Health System, and how he is leading his organization to deliver patient-centered care. Recently, I interviewed Bill Shannon, Chief Wisdom…
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Older job seekers struggling with age barrier
2 Jul 2009 | 3:37 pmLike many unemployed older workers, 64-year old Allan Kellum fears his age has made it harder to find a new job. -
Life of a star: Go to a party, and get paid for it
1 Jul 2009 | 11:42 amAh, the life of a star: Show up at a party and get paid for doing so. There's now an industry of people who wrangle such paid appearances. -
Your Career: Getting paid to lose weight
29 Jun 2009 | 9:04 amDespite the downturn, employers don’t seem to be skimping on their health and wellness initiatives. -
Your career: Empathy matters at work
22 Jun 2009 | 4:19 amThere’s been a lot of talk about the merits and drawbacks of empathy lately. But does empathy make sense in any job? A little workplace empathy can go a long way, experts agree. Presented By: Three Ways to Minimize Your Risk of Identity Theft The best thing you can do to minimize your risk of identity theft is ensure that your personal information is secure. It is very often small acts of criminal mischief that result in years of hardship for individual consumers. Applying common sense can provide a measure of identity theft protection.1. Don't leave your financial paperwork lying around… -
Posting dilemmas when your status is ‘Jobless’
18 Jun 2009 | 1:35 pmYou're called into your boss's office and told that your job no longer exits. You go home in a daze and sign onto Facebook. There it is — a prompt asking: "What's on your mind?"
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Project Creative Vision
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My Healing Practice: New Directions
10 Jun 2009 | 7:54 pmThings have been quiet on this blog lately. That's because over the past few months I've become immersed in getting my certification as a Healing Touch Practitioner. I'm almost through with that and expect to complete the program by the end of July. Meanwhile, my practice has been growing by leaps and bounds and has now shifted almost entirely to healing work. I work with clients with cancer, MS, Parkinsons, chronic back pain, migraines, depression, and other conditions that cause tremendous physical and emotional pain and cause a severe deterioration in my… -
My Comment on IOM's Panel - Feel Free to Copy
11 Mar 2009 | 11:38 amIn an earlier post, I urged everyone to write to the IOM and request that holistic practitioners be included on the panel that will be assessing comparative effectiveness of medical treatments. The panel's conclusions will serve as a critical piece in the national health care reform. Here's the comment I just submitted to the IOM. Please go here and submit your comment. And feel free to copy and paste my comment if you don't have the time to write your own. (Just sign it with your own name, of course!) To Whom It May Concern: I was disappointed to find out that no… -
Get Your Voice Heard in Health Care Reform
11 Mar 2009 | 10:43 amJulia Schopick of Honest Medicine points out in her comment to the recent Holistic Health series on this blog that the proposed panel empowered by the Institute of Medicine to make recommendations on the comparative effectiveness research in health care has no members representing the public, nor members of the alternative/ holistic/ complementary/ integrative community." She says: "the only patient or consumer representative named to the panel's tentative roster was from the Alzheimer's Association, a single-issue patient advocacy group that receives substantial… -
I'm on Twitter!
8 Mar 2009 | 5:39 amI have finally caught the Twitter bug. If you're twittering, let me know - I'd love to follow you. And come follow me at http://twitter.com/IzabellatT. My personal hope? Maybe twittering will finally teach me to write brief blog posts :) Happy twittering! -
New Vision of Holistic Health
7 Mar 2009 | 4:25 pmAs regular readers of this blog know, my interest in holistic holistic health and wellness has grown over the past year. As a student of energy medicine, aromatherapy, Reiki, and general principles of holistic health, I've come to realize that, if we want to change our lives for the better, we can't be looking at just one isolated slice of our life for the answers. We are whole, complex human beings, and to create positive change in our lives, we need to treat ourselves as such and address the challenges we face on many different levels. This growing interest led me last week…
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White Spaces
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Jack Welch at SHRM
2 Jul 2009 | 11:19 amOne of the great things about the net is the ability to follow what is happening halfway across the world. New Orleans recently hosted the SHRM annual conference (for which apparently 7000 people turned up - half of the crowd of last years, apparently) You can see what people are saying about it on Twitter here. And here's a video (spotted by Anish on his blog) about Jack Welch at the SHRM conference. The video was uploaded by Michael, another HR blogger Related articles by Zemanta Social Media, Human Resources, & SHRM (punkrockhr.com) A Search Slice from FriendFeed - Society of Human… -
Facebook Page now has a simple URL
29 Jun 2009 | 8:28 amToday Facebook enabled the pages that had less than 1000 fans to get a simple username. However the pages needed to have more than 100 fans to be considered. Thankfully a tweet and a Facebook appeal ensured that my number crossed from the 80 fans to 102 now - and now the URL to remember is http://www.facebook.com/HR.Blogger to get an update on what I am blogging or reading about. Hope to see you there!by Gautam Ghosh |Follow on Twitter | Connect on Linkedin | Facebook Page | Join the HR Network | -
HR Consulting news: Towers Watson: Towers Perrin and Watson Wyatt to merge
28 Jun 2009 | 8:54 pmOk, this is an interesting development, and I guess makes sense in this season of economic recession.Towers Perrin and Watson Wyatt will merge to form Towers Watson. Watson Wyatt has an Indian presence, while Towers Perrin does not. However it does stuff related to salary surveys with Cerebrus Consultants in India. So I don't think Watson Wyatt India will be impacted by this merger, but am guessing that globally there would be redundancies specially in overlapping service lines. As the WSJ reports: The combined company, to be called Towers Watson & Co., will have annual sales of… -
Thoughts on Social Recruiting
28 Jun 2009 | 12:40 amRecently there was a Social Recruiting Summit held in the US at Google organized by ERE. If you haven't heard of it so far, social recruiting being the use of social media and networking tools to engage prospective candidates (as Michael Specht defines it) with your organization and form a talent pipeline you might select from later. Of course, social recruiting as a concept is not new. Headhunters and Corporate recruiters have for over the last century cultivated networks using phones and rolodex - but the boost that the internet has given to communication, first with email then with social… -
Why blame the boss asks Sidin Vadukut
28 Jun 2009 | 12:15 amSidin Vadukut posts about why people tend to blame the boss in his column Cubiclenama; quoting a HR consultant with a secret identity ;-) A dear friend and human resources consultant, GG, explained the phenomenon in interesting terms: “Well the simple answer is an old psychological theory: called theory of attribution. People attribute good results to themselves and bad results to external factors. Top management will therefore get blamed for everything that goes wrong—because we also like attributing blame on people rather than abstract concepts like privatization, global…
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Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel
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The Power of Referral Partners, Part 2: Choosing the Right Ones
2 Jul 2009 | 5:15 amWhile many of us who start our own businesses or who become solo professionals value our independence, we quickly find more value in having people at our side to give us extra strength, visibility and insight in the market. In last week’s post, I touched on the power of referral partnerships. These are collaborations you can create with other entrepreneurs, professional service providers or small businesses owners that can open up a whole pipeline of new business for the both of you and strengthen your respective brands. Picking the right referral partners Here are six criteria to consider:… -
8 Ideas to Turn Your Successful Blog into a Book
1 Jul 2009 | 5:15 amIf you currently have a successful blog with a moderate fan base of subscribers, you might be considering the benefits of having a book to expand your personal brand. One of the most difficult parts of getting started is figuring out how to market the ideas and blog content you have in book form, without republishing your blog posts or ideas in the same way. The more unique you can make your book content, the more likely your subscribers are to buy it. For an in-depth look at any of 8 the following methods to turn your blog into a book, you can sign up for my writer’s newsletter here. Here… -
The Michael Jackson Brand
30 Jun 2009 | 5:15 amLike millions of people around the world, I was shocked and saddened by Michael Jackson’s untimely death last Thursday. I found out on Twitter. And, it’s true, I’m a ‘closet’ Michael Jackson fan. I realized that as his music and videos filled the airwaves - he was the backdrop of my life for decades. And every song has memories - Beat It, Thriller, Bad, We Are The World….on and on. Setting aside his trials and tribulations, his brand is so strong and well defined that his legacy truly will be that of a genius artist and a true humanitarian. In fact,… -
Personal Branding Interview: Bob Jennings
29 Jun 2009 | 5:30 pmToday, I spoke with Bob Jennings, who is the coauthor of The Adversity Paradox. Bob views the poor economy as a transformational opportunity—those who emerge stronger will be the success stories of the future. In this interview, Bob talks about key traits that he looks for when hiring new employees, and more information on why overcoming adversity is the key to success. Over your careers what were the key traits you looked for when hiring new employees? And why? Recruiting and retaining high performers is crucial for any organization, in any economic situation. We hired based on all the… -
REPORT: Professional Networking Dominates Job Boards
29 Jun 2009 | 3:42 amAs you a already well aware, I believe that job boards won’t exist in the future and that the transaction between hiring managers and applicants will be completely networked. Therefore, your network will become your only insurance policy and people will become the ultimate asset to your career. You won’t be conducting a job search because you won’t need to. Instead, you’ll be locating people who work for companies you’re actually interested in and they will process the “transaction” on your behalf. This saves companies a lot of money and creates…
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Career Opportunities
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Communication
26 Jun 2009 | 2:39 pmCommunication By Douglas E. Welch Listen Let’s Meetup In Ohio!Douglas will be traveling back to Ohio to visit family and friends from June 28 through July 13. Would you like to meetup?Email career@welchwrite.com and watch the Career Opportunities Community Site for more information.Discuss this column and podcaston the Career-Op Community Site Way back in my college days, as part of my BA in Communications, there was a required class that we all found a bit silly at first. This class was called IPCO 305 or Interpersonal Communications. Basically, this was a class on how people talked to… -
Douglas appears in “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” Segment
24 Jun 2009 | 4:44 pmUpdate (6/24/09, 7:15 pm) - I forgot to include the fact that you can see the entire presentation from LaidffCampLA (where they recorded these clips) on this blog under Video: Visibility and Your Career from LaidOffCampLA During LaidOffCampLA back on May 1, 2009, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer sent a crew to record the sights and sounds for an upcoming report. I just found out that that story has now appeared. Jobless Find a Creative Voice in Southern California is an overview of the issues with layoffs and downsizing and LaidOffCampLA plays a small part. I have 2 nice quotes in the video, so… -
Why we share
12 Jun 2009 | 1:20 pmWhy we share By Douglas E. Welch Listen Let’s Meetup In Ohio!Douglas will be traveling back to Ohio to visit family and friends from June 28 through July 13. Would you like to meetup?Email career@welchwrite.com and watch the Career Opportunities Community Site for more information.Discuss this column and podcaston the Career-Op Community Site With the continuing growth of services like Facebook, Twitter and others, questions often gets asked, “Why do we share all this information? Who does it benefit? Is it too much? Is it simply a fad…or troubling…or even… -
Do something crazy!
31 May 2009 | 11:42 pmDo something crazy By Douglas E. Welch Listen Let’s Meetup In Ohio!Douglas will be traveling back to Ohio to visit family and friends from June 28 through July 13. Would you like to meetup?Email career@welchwrite.com and watch the Career Opportunities Community Site for more information.Discuss this column and podcaston the Career-Op Community Site If you are like me, one day can seem much like another. If we allow it, our daily rut can become so deep that we can’t even see a way out. We wander from bed to shower to coffee to work to dinner to home to bed without so much as a… -
Video: Douglas speaks to Tuesdays with Transitioners
27 May 2009 | 8:00 amDouglas E. Welch speaks to the career group, Tuesdays with Transitioners, which meets each week in Northridge, California. (62 mins) iPod Ready Video From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great content on Podcasting, New Media, Gardening, Los Angeles Events and Technology at WelchWrite.com Video: Douglas speaks to Tuesdays with Transitioners
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Applicant
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The “Don’t Do It” Guide To Using LinkedIn
1 Jul 2009 | 1:21 pmThe other day we got an email asking - “I update my linkedin status regularly and add many people each day. This approach works wonders for me on Facebook and Twitter but it’s not working on LinkedIn. What am I doing wrong?” Although the question might surprise some of us, we need to realize there are many people who still use LinkedIn the way they use Facebook, MySpace, Twitter or other social networking tools. LinkedIn is a networking tool for professionals and for anyone who wants to showcase their skills and find opportunities via this wonderful platform. Below you will… -
Good Salesmen a Dying Breed?
30 Jun 2009 | 7:06 pmSalesmen today aren’t like they used to be a couple years ago. I asked the guys at applicant.com if they would let me rant my experience with a salesman and they were cool since it is career related . There used to be a time when I enjoyed talking to salesmen. Yes, it sounds weird but it was one more way for me to know about a person, how much they liked their job and how effective they were in their communication skills. And of course, my wife seems to enjoy any new product cause it gives her an opportunity to empty my wallet a bit, which she seems to love for some reason. I enjoy… -
10 Freelancing Tips That I Practice And Preach
28 Jun 2009 | 10:40 pmIf you’ve had a hard time finding a job in this economy, do give freelancing a shot. Whether it will turn into a full time gig isn’t the question at the moment, the question is : will it help you pay the bills for the time being? The answer is : Yes! I’ve been doing some freelance work for a couple years and the awesome guys at applicant.com asked me if I could share some tips. If you are a freelancer or are thinking of becoming one, here are ten tips that I always practice, and now that I have a chance to share them here at applicant.com, thought I would preach it too . -
Job Applicant Of The Week : Benjamin Wollman
28 Jun 2009 | 10:29 amName: Ben Wollman Education: Temple University – B.A. Advertising Industry: Advertising/Account Management/Marketing Past Experience: CBS-3 Philadelphia; advertising sales intern / TU: Ad Website; intern. Current: Recent graduate - unemployed Available for Job: Yes! Contact : benjamin.wollman(at)gmail(dot)com http://www.benwollman.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/benwollman What makes you stand out among other job applicants in your field? I recently graduated from Temple University into one of the most economically challenging climates possible. Despite the constant negativity surrounding… -
10 Things To Do After a Layoff
24 Jun 2009 | 10:48 pmLately we’ve been hearing some good news when it comes to the job market. However, the fact that there are layoffs happening each day around the country certainly isn’t going to stop anytime soon. Layoffs are hard and can be devastating, both financially and psychologically. Having your income stream shut off, especially without notice isn’t something that can be taken lightly. We all have bills to pay, mouths to feed and other things that needs to be taken care of and usually money is what keeps the world going. Anyway, below are 10 suggestions that we think should be…
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Where Great Workplaces Start
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Employer Observance of Fourth of July
30 Jun 2009 | 12:09 pmThe Fourth of July is a federal holiday, meaning all non-essential federal government offices are closed. Federal employees are paid for the holiday, but private employers are not required to observe federal or state holidays, such as the Fourth of July. In fact, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not require payment for vacations or holidays, according to the Department of Labor (dol.gov). There are a few studies that exist that look at how employers approach holidays and time off. According to BLR’s 2008 Survey of Employee Benefits, 97% of employers offer Memorial Day as a paid… -
Implementing a Wellness Program and Tracking Progress
23 Jun 2009 | 12:09 pmThe last two weeks we have highlighted the benefits of and planning process for a health and wellness program. Before this series concludes, two more hills need conquered: program implementation and results tracking. This week’s blog will look at how to not only implement the health and wellness plan, but will discuss how to know if your program is providing a return on investment. You have just spent the last couple months planning goals and objectives, but what good are they if your employees are not aware of these efforts? To assure all your sweaty brainstorming sessions do not go to… -
Planning a Wellness Program
16 Jun 2009 | 12:05 pmIn part 1 of this series we explored how a health and wellness program can be an important part of driving employee success, not to mention the thousands of dollars in health care costs the programs can save. But with schedules filled to capacity, and budgets running close to empty, who has the time or resources to address employee health education? In part 2 of this series we examine this question. Just like any personal health plan, starting is the hardest part, but once a commitment is present the rest is a matter of celebrating results. The following four planning steps are referenced… -
The Incredible Benefit of Healthy Employees
9 Jun 2009 | 8:32 amPart one of this three-part blog series will explore the incredible benefits that a company can realize when implementing a wellness program at work. Aside from the obvious benefit of having happy, healthy employees; companies can save millions of dollars each year in healthcare costs and improve the productivity of their workforce by implementing such a program. Improve Productivity Let’s think about this for a second… Wouldn’t you feel better about your job if your employer expressed a vested interest in your well-being? According to Partnerships for a Healthy Workforce (PHW),… -
What is SPHR? (…and PHR, and GPHR?)
2 Jun 2009 | 12:05 pmMany of us have seen these designations after human resource professionals’ names, but do all of us really know exactly what they stand for? These acronyms are certifications that HR professionals receive through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). The HRCI actually offers four different certifications, including the PHR, SPHR, GPHR, and PHR-CA and SPHR-CA. According to the HRCI’s website: Certification is a voluntary action by a professional group to establish a system to grant recognition to professionals who have met a stated level of training and work…
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JobMob
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21 Tips To A Better Handshake
1 Jul 2009 | 12:30 pmYour handshake is a convenient personal branding accessory right in the palm of your hand, so use your handshake to leave a great impression. Here’s how. Handshaking is important for personal branding People shake hands all the time. Unless your handshake is particularly bad, people will rarely react negatively to it and they’ll ignore the occasional jitter or semi-clasp. But if your handshake is particularly good, you will stand out and people will remember you. Ultimately- since a handshake is such a basic thing, expectations are relatively low for results. Which also means that… -
At The Last Minute: Where To Find Summer Jobs on Twitter
29 Jun 2009 | 1:00 pmSummer’s just begun and lots of people are still scrambling for summer jobs. Here’s how you can use Twitter to find the summer jobs that are still available. Twitter feeds for summer jobs @SummerJob - all kinds of summer jobs & contracts, not only for students @getsumcampjobs - jobs at summer camps across the USA @SummerWorkation - helping teachers in the USA to continue working throughout their summer vacation @ocsummerjobs - summer jobs in Orange County, California @SummerJobsUK - all kinds of summer jobs in the UK, mostly intern/entry-level or other types of jobs for… -
Top 105 Beautiful Job Search Company Logos That Will Wow You
24 Jun 2009 | 3:30 pmThese are the most beautiful job search, human resources or recruiting company logos on the Web right now. The top company logos in job search #105 #104 #103 #102 #101 #100 #99 #98 #97 #96 #95 #94 #93 #92 #91 #90 #89 #88 #87 #86 #85 #84 #83 #82 #81 #80 #79 #78 #77 #76 #75 #74 #73 #72 #71 #70 #69 #68 #67 #66 #65 #64 #63 #62 #61 #60 #59 #58 #57 #56 #55 #54 #53 #52 #51 #50 #49 #48 #47 #46 #45 #44 #43 #42 #41 #40 #39 #38 #37 #36 #35 #34 #33 #32 #31 #30 #29 #28 Designed by Liora Blum #27 #26 #25 #24 #23 #22 #21 #20 #19 #18 #17 #16 #15 #14 #13 #12 #11 #10 #9 #8 #7 #6 #5 #4 #3 #2 #1 Special thanks… -
Job Search Q&A #4: Twitter for Finding Jobs in Israel
22 Jun 2009 | 2:00 pmIn this fourth Q&A session, I take a look at some of the questions about Twitter that Israelis are asking me. Reminder I always try to get the questions and answers as close as possible to the actual conversation but in some cases I’ve changed things to protect the reader’s identity or I’ve given a longer answer than what was possible at the time due to the fact that Twitter - where many of these questions are coming from - only allows 140 characters per message. Relevant in Israel Is Twitter relevant for Israelis? Do you think we can also use it to find a job or it is not yet… -
Want A Sneak Peek Inside The Ultimate Twitter Job Search Guide?
18 Jun 2009 | 3:00 pmMembers of the Job Tips Newsletter are going to get a peek inside The Ultimate Twitter Job Search Guide next week. When I announced my Job Tips Newsletter and the free Ultimate Twitter Job Search Guide e-book, I mentioned that: “Early-bird subscribers to the Job Tips Newsletter will be able to download the Guide first, one week before its official release on JobMob. There may also be some other surprises for subscribers until then.” Well, one surprise is coming next week. This isn’t the first piece of the Guide that I’ll be sharing; yesterday’s 375+ Twitter Feeds…
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Cheezhead Recruiting News and Opinion
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a new (and free) split-fee network launches
2 Jul 2009 | 10:51 amFeeTrader.com is a new recruiter-to-recruiter network designed for the agency/independent recruiter. The site’s founders say they subsidize the service through advertising, so they don’t charge any fees to recruiters. The goal is to make this ‘the largest, most effective split fee network on the planet.’ To begin, recruiters must conduct a search through the portal and then click the split-fee request tab, which will enable recruiters to send a personalized email to the potential partner with brief details about candidates and capabilities. Recruiters can post as many… -
frustrating job search
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bing to integrate twitter into search results
2 Jul 2009 | 7:56 amFor the day leading into a holiday weekend, there is a lot of linky goodness out there: Microsoft Adds Some Twitter Updates to Bing Search - In a nod to the increasing importance of real-time search, Microsoft has started adding Twitter updates to its Bing search engine. Google News Drops Controversial Comments Feature - Predictions stating “the comments section is likely to be larded with spin, hype and obfuscation” were unfounded. A lack of commentary likely killed this beast. How TMZ Gets Scoops - TMZ, which is as voyeristic as it is speedy, has become one of the world’s most… -
employment guide ups the ante
2 Jul 2009 | 7:03 amNot to be outdone by Monster’s Keep America Working Tour, the Employment Guide, a recruitment solution for hourly workers, has pledged to help 15,000 people find jobs by 2010 via their Putting America Back to Work job fair series. Previously, the Employment Guide, a division of Dominion Enterprises, said it would put 10,000 people back to work by the end of the year. Instead, a spokesperson said that 11,152 workers found new jobs in six months. Because their goals were surpassed so quickly, EG decided to revisit the guidelines and then came up with the new figure of 15,000. “It’s… -
economics drive video interviews
2 Jul 2009 | 6:48 amWhat exactly is causing the growing trend in corporate America’s use of video interviewing during the hiring process? According to HireVue COO Chip Luman, it’s simple economics that continues to drive interest. Luman was recently interviewed on two nationally syndicated radio shows, The Big Biz Show with Bob “Sully” Sullivan and Russ T. Nailz and HeadHunter Radio with Cecelia Gonzalez, during which time he shared his thoughts on the subject. “Companies are seeing a 3 to 10X savings in the hiring process by using HireVue,” Luman said on HeadHunter Radio.
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The Career Key Blog
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Should you go to graduate school?
1 Jul 2009 | 10:08 amMany people are now considering whether to attend graduate school - recent college grads facing a poor job market, people considering a career change or upgrade, and unemployed B.A. holders looking for something to tide them over until the recession ends. If you do it, make sure you have a clear, well researched career goal in mind for how to use it.In the early 90s, I was in the first category - a college grad facing a job market where it seemed like a Liberal Arts B.A. was no better than a high school diploma for getting a good paying job. But I had a clear career goal - being a labor or… -
3 Cheers for Student Loan Repayment Reform!
29 Jun 2009 | 12:08 pmGood news for career planners looking at education options and financing their next career move. If you have or will have U.S. government guaranteed student loans, your repayment plan may be based on your income level. What a concept! – and hard to believe it has taken this long to implement. You can learn more about the new plan and eligibility at the studentaid.ed.gov website. Jonathan Glater also wrote an excellent article about the new plan in The New York Times today.And please make sure you max out your federal loan eligibility before turning to higher interest private loans.Yes,… -
Congratulations to Zumeo.com!
23 Jun 2009 | 3:23 pmOur newest partner, Zumeo.com, just received a 2009 Webby Honoree award for their website in the Employment category. If you haven't checked out their Generation Y career discovery tool and professional social network, you should. It is truly unique and powerful.They are the ONLY job search and networking website to use a scientifically valid test and career theory to match users with jobs and fellow networkers.They also have a very cool user interface (hence their Webby award) to deliver this high-quality content. You can see video on their YouTube channel.Yes, I'm biased because they are… -
Getting The Degree or Certificate
18 Jun 2009 | 11:28 amThe dropping rate of degree completion is a growing problem, not just at 4-year colleges but at community colleges as well. According to a Futureworks paper sponsored by the Lumina Foundation, the rates of 2 and 4-year college completion have declined from the mid-1980s; two-year college completion rates have declined from about 44% to 39%.A couple of weeks ago I attended an interesting forum, “From the Work Station to Graduation: paths to college success for Washington’s working adults” sponsored by the Seattle King County Workforce Education Collaborative and Port Jobs.My primary… -
Bad Work Days in Perspective
16 Jun 2009 | 2:55 pmSitting on a Seattle (see the Space Needle in the distance) beach with my family this weekend, I had the pleasure of watching lots of people soaking up the sun and BBQing in the park. My 2 year old son, thanks to his father’s love of grilling, was really excited by the charcoal fires. He ran happily on the sand beneath the sea wall, giggling and dragging seaweed behind him. It was one of those moments when you catch your breath and feel the warmth, figuratively and literally.In my careers, I have had a few days feeling cold, dread, and anxiety. They make me appreciate my warm, carefree…
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The CareerXroads Annex
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N'awlins: Settling in
27 Jun 2009 | 11:44 pmSaturday, June 27 #SHRM09-BoB 7:30AMCafe Du Monde. Hot coffee w chicory and Beignets. It's a ritual. Unfortunately, by 8:00AM it appears to be the place every one wants to be this mornig and it is hot enough that I may be the only person drinking coffe hot. Joined by LV and afterward we amble over to the Marriott for 8 hours of panel discussions surrounding the Society's assessment/re-assessment of its strategy, technology issues, legislative challenges, etc., etc. Finished up with 5 of us prioritizing technology trends impacting the profession. Most, but not all,… -
N'awlins: You can feel the difference.
26 Jun 2009 | 11:28 pmFriday, June 26 #SHRM09-BoB 8:00AMHeaded down to N'awlins this morning. First time in nearly a year. This has been the longest time between trips to my favorite city since 2004, a year before Katrina. 10:45AMThe plane included a few HR consultants (MJ Sinclair among them) and Academics (Mark Hueslid) whose company I enjoy. All of us have full agendas at the conference but in totally different spaces. In between the special expertise panels, vendor meetings, and presenting on candidate experience at a concurrent session Tuesday there's food, drink and the sheer pleasure of… -
2nd National Standards Task Force Launched: Performance Management
24 Jun 2009 | 11:32 amThis week SHRM launched the second National Standards Development Task Force (Performance Management) since being named a Standards Development Organization (SDO) in February by the American National Standards Institute (the ISO member for the US). In May, the first Standards Task force, Staffing and Workforce Planning, was launched to initially address three standards in the area of metrics, job description and WP as a way of jump starting its longer term of work. 170 professionals within the staffing community- academics, research and consulting professionals, suppliers and vendors, etc. -
Is Turnabout Fair Play? SEM for the Job Seeker
19 Jun 2009 | 1:15 pmThis blog (PRSquared) is an eye-opener. The writer is a Principal in a PR firm, SHIFT. He was "targeted" on his Facebook page with an ad that said "SHIFT should hire me" and then went on to explain how the ad's author could help the firm. Several other members of the firm also saw the ad on their Facebook pages. You gotta love it. I'm adding it to my list of "disruptive" suggestions for job seekers. This interesting note was passed on to me by Joe Shaker, Jr. Thanks Joe. -
A Standing Ovation: Are You Ready for an MBA OATH!?
17 Jun 2009 | 1:34 pm"As a manager my purpose is to serve the greater good by.... I will seek a course that enhances the value my enterprise can create for society over the long term...therefore , I promise..." The idea of a Hippocratic Oath for the Business Grad is going to be ignored by many, scoffed at by nearly every GenXer and, perhaps even made the butt of a few jokes in the National Review but, most Boomers will not only get it, we'll applaud. (Personally, anyone who signs on to this and attempts to walk the talk in the next few years will get my complete support - not that any of them need it.) Take…
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Career News
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Tips for Getting your Resume Noticed
1 Jul 2009 | 12:16 amWrite a compelling chronological resume. Highlight results you achieved in previous jobs. Use high impact, relevant keywords to get noticed and be found. Employers & Recruiters use keywords to search the resume bank and their internal Applicant Tracking Systems (much like how you use Google) Think keywords! Keep your resume updated. Refresh your Resume often--the most recent resumes come up first in specific search results. Post your Resume to target niche sites such as CareerWomen.com, DiversitySearch.com and MBACareers.com...Post to All resume banks you are qualified for. Apply to… -
Work/Life Balance a key to Career Success
29 Jun 2009 | 12:19 amToday's Career Women are continually challenged by the demands of full-time work and when the day is done at the office, it's off to more responsibilities and commitments at home. The majority of women respondents were working 40-50 hours per week and suggested these tools for achieving a more balanced life. High on the list were: Leave work on time at least 3 days per week, Control interruptions and distractions, Delegate more, Budget time more effectively, and/or have the option of Flex-time at work. Why is work/life balance important? A happier, more satisfied workforce contributes to… -
Viewers Share Advice for Work/Life Balance
26 Jun 2009 | 4:08 amWe asked our viewers: What advice would you give a friend who feels they are not balancing their work and life? Here are a few of their insightful responses. “Even if you work long hours by choice or necessity, you have to try to make the most of your time off. Plan an activity with family or friends at least once a week. Exercise regularly; try to have dinner with your spouse, family or a friend on a regular basis. Go to church, enjoy being a spectator at a sports event, go for a long walk, help a neighbor out... These things all keep your life in perspective no matter how busy you are.”… -
Real CareerWomen offer their Tips for Job Success
24 Jun 2009 | 3:29 am"Find a mentor who will give you effect advice, feedback, guidance, networking and leadership opportunities, highlight your qualifications to others, provide you with visibility within the organization, and help you develop to your fullest potential. Someone who can help you moves up within or outside of your company, and who can ultimately guide you to meet your own professional goals." Read more at Up Close & Virtual® Interviews at CareerWomen.com..... Source: © CareerWomen.com -
Recruiters Advice to Job Candidates
22 Jun 2009 | 1:31 amWe asked our Corporate Recruiters: What's the most important advice you would give a Job candidate to gain the edge above the competition and get that interview? “Have excellent qualifications, skills and experience. Do your research and make sure that you can step in and contribute to the bottom line. I'm looking to hire the most effective, efficient employee who can get up to speed fast and make an impact.” “Make sure you are qualified for the job. Come prepared, be professional and tell me how you can help our company achieve our objectives. Don't come with your list of demands and…
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Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog
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Climate Change
29 Jun 2009 | 2:03 pmRecently the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) released a new report on how climate change is already affecting the United States, plus predictions for the next 100 years based on different scenarios. If you care to read the report, you can find it online at www.globalchange.gov/usimpacts. This group is comprised of respected U.S. scientists from a variety of disciplines. According to their web site, the USGCRP “coordinates and integrates federal changes in the global environment and their implications to society.” They’ve been conducting heavy peer-reviewed… -
Your Wealthy Avatar
26 Jun 2009 | 10:28 amThere was a recent discussion in our forums about the contrast between playing an online computer game (MMORPG) and, over a period of weeks or months, acquiring a substantial amount of gold for your character (avatar) versus experiencing the opposite situation of financial scarcity in real life. The question posed was: What’s it like to enjoy financial abundance in real life? Honestly it’s pretty much the same thing you’d experience in a virtual game world when your character has a lot of gold. When you have an abundance of gold, the nature of the game changes, doesn’t… -
3-Day Las Vegas Workshop Oct 2-4
25 Jun 2009 | 12:59 pmI’m happy to announce that I’ll be doing a 3-day public workshop here in Las Vegas on October 2-4, 2009 (Fri-Sun), and I invite you to attend. This event will be held in a very nice meeting room at Harrah’s Hotel, right in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip. This will be a personal development workshop, not a blogging workshop. The content will be loosely based on the material from my book, so we’re going to cover the whole she-bang of personal growth — habits, career, money, relationships, health, and spiritual growth. This workshop will include a nice blend of… -
How to Make a Raw Fruit Pie
22 Jun 2009 | 5:00 amSince December 2008 I’ve been attending monthly raw potlucks here in Las Vegas. Erin and I hosted one at our house a few months ago, and we’ll be hosting another one in August. Typically 20-25 people will attend (I’ve seen as many as 35), so these potlucks are a nice way to meet local raw food enthusiasts and to sample a variety of tasty items. At previous potlucks I’ve brought guacamole, nori rolls, and garlic “bread,” but by far the most popular item I’ve made was a raw fruit pie. I’ve brought raw pies to three potlucks, and I always brought… -
Events, Perception, Truth, and Subjective Reality
18 Jun 2009 | 11:29 amWhat exactly is an event? An event is something that happens at a given place and time. An event is essentially a point or interval in space-time. Place and time are both relative concepts. To define a place, you need a reference location. Places are defined by relationships, such as by coordinates (relative to a coordinate system) or directions (relative to a starting location). To define a time, you must also use relationships, such as a time’s relationship to the present moment or to another date and time. When you try to define events in objective terms, you internally translate…
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ERE: Inside Recruiting
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Điện thoại doanh nhân
Ba điện thoại di động LG có thiết kế đẹp, nhiều tính năng phù hợp với doanh nhân và hỗ trợ 4 băng tần GSM nên có thể "di chuyển" đến nhiều quốc gia khác nhau. -
Riêng tư trên Facebook
Thiết lập mặc định của Facebook không đảm bảo được riêng tư trên mạng. Một số thủ thuật sẽ đề cập giúp bạn yên tâm hơn.
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Bob Sutton
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Sexism and Female Playwrights
24 Jun 2009 | 10:00 amToday's New York Times describes a fascinating trio of studies -- by a clearly brilliant undergraduate named Emily Glassberg Sands (her research is a lot better than most doctoral dissertations) -- that reveals some sexism against female playwrights. Check out the article Rethinking Gender Bias in the Theater. The first study shows that the main reason that fewer plays written by women are produced is because they write fewer plays than men. The third study shows that plays that do get produced that are written by women make more money than those written by men -- on average, they… -
New York Times, I Hate People, Censorship, and Headphones as Protective Devices
21 Jun 2009 | 11:32 amThis morning's Sunday New York Times has a well-researched piece by Phyllis Korkki in her Career Couch column called "I Find You Annoying, But I Can Cope." It starts out with a quote from Jonathan Littman about the implications of the ideas in I Hate People for dealing people who bug you at work (see their post), and travels through a lot different methods for coping with the problem from several other researchers and the like. I was quoted in the article several times, emphasizing some of my favorite themes from The No Asshole Rule including the virtues of learning… -
The HateMobile
21 Jun 2009 | 10:31 amThe authors of I Hate People, Jonathan and Marc, customized their rental car so it was a rolling advertisement for their book. A brilliant move I think, although perhaps a bit dangerous in New York City. Check out their post, which also describes the excitement they generated handing out promotional swag in Times Square. These guys are getting piles of attention in the main stream media, CNN,Wall Street Journal, and New York Times. So I have to hand it to them because they are doing the guerrilla marketing thing too. -
The No Asshole Rule at Shakespeare Miami
17 Jun 2009 | 11:44 amI still get perhaps 20 emails a week from people about the challenges and triumphs of dealing with workplace assholes. I try to respond to each, but don’t print most of them because I know that readers of this blog aren’t interested in reading about all assholes all the time, and I would be bored to tears too if that was all I ever wrote about. But every now and then I get a note that is just wonderful and feel compelled to share it. Today, I got one of my favorite notes ever, from Colleen Stovall, who is the Producing Artistic Director at Shakespeare Miami – which… -
Great Review for "I Hate People" In Today's Wall Street Journal
17 Jun 2009 | 9:31 amAt breakfast this morning, my wife pointed out that I Hate People (which I endorsed and is a book I love) got a long and very positive review in today's Wall Street Journal. The reviewer did a bit of nit-picking, but he clearly is a big fan of the book. Predicting which books will be best-sellers and which will not is impossible, but my first reaction to reading this book, which persists, is that if any book in the current market deserves to be one, this is it, because business books that are both fun and useful are as rare as hen's teeth. Check out the review…
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Three Star Leadership Blog
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Summer Re-Reading Mini-List
2 Jul 2009 | 12:08 pmHere's my summer re-reading list. There are just six books. I think you should read every one, matter what else you read this summer. Even if you've read them before.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/threestarleadership/priq/~4/AMNRWjiKGCY" height="1" width="1"/> -
7/1/09: Midweek Look at the Independent Business Blogs
1 Jul 2009 | 1:15 pmEvery week I select five excellent posts from this week's independent business blogs. This week, I'm pointing you to posts on how to deal with a nutso boss, how not to fire someone, kindness, predicting leadership performance and Return on Investment in Interaction.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/threestarleadership/priq/~4/8XWHjLUk52w" height="1" width="1"/> -
Productivity is a Characteristic of a Great Working Environment
30 Jun 2009 | 12:09 pmProductivity is one of the eight characteristics of a great working environment. People want to pitch in and be part of a productive team. If you're the boss, here are some things you can do to make your team more productive. They won't break the bank or turn your workplace into a slave ship.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/threestarleadership/priq/~4/GH9k4MGfT5U" height="1" width="1"/> -
Happy Birthday Eisenhower Interstate Highway System
29 Jun 2009 | 3:05 pmThe Eisenhower Interstate Highway System has created changes far beyond what was imagined in 1956. It's also a good example of how innovation works.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/threestarleadership/priq/~4/Vt69bISGfmU" height="1" width="1"/> -
6/28/09: Leadership Reading to Start Your Week
28 Jun 2009 | 6:13 amHere are five choice articles from the business press to start off your workweek. I'm pointing you to articles about old and new networks, Microsoft, Campbell's, CEO's and golf, and micro-distillers.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/threestarleadership/priq/~4/R1tHE20mUb0" height="1" width="1"/>
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Bigg Success
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6 Paths to Financial Freedom
2 Jul 2009 | 12:00 amToday is the fourth installment in our freedom series. We’ll focus on financial freedom. Financial freedom … can you imagine it? To use the lingo from our last couple of posts, it means freedom from money worries or, even better, freedom to choose how we spend and live. ___ ___ Financial freedom is just one piece We’ve defined bigg success as life on your own terms. There are five elements of bigg success – money, time, growth, work and play. Bigg success comes faster when these five elements work in synergy; that’s part of the bigg idea behind bigg success. So… -
Three Levels of Freedom - Part 3
1 Jul 2009 | 12:00 amThis is the final installment of the three levels of freedom. First, we talked about freedom of: those basic freedoms that we who live in the developed world take for granted. Then we talked about freedom from dependence on others, addiction to things and limiting thoughts. Now we’re ready to discuss the highest level of freedom: freedom to. ___ ___ Freedom to live your life on your own terms This is what Bigg Success is all about. It’s the freedom to live your life on your own terms. As we get freedom from, our confidence grows. We conquer our fears one at a time. We start a new… -
Three Levels of Freedom - Part 2
30 Jun 2009 | 12:00 amToday, we’ll continue our series on freedom today. It’s a five-part series kicking off with a three-part sub-series. We got started last time when we discussed the first of the three levels of freedom – freedom of. ___ ___ We said “freedom of” are those freedoms we have as a result of living in a free society. It’s something we shouldn’t take for granted because plenty of people aren’t so fortunate. Today we want to move to the second level of freedom: freedom from. Self-created obstacles Now let’s move to the second level of freedom… -
Three Levels of Freedom - Part 1
29 Jun 2009 | 12:00 amIf our math is correct, we’re getting ready to celebrate the 233rd birthday of the Declaration of Independence here in the U.S. So we’ve been thinking about freedom. Today we’ll start a five-part series on freedom. In the first three posts, we’ll explore three levels of freedom. They are: freedom of, freedom from, and freedom to. ___ ___ Freedom of With this level, we think freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and those sorts of things. If you’re like us, you probably think of these things as rights. That is if you’re lucky enough… -
Is Work Death
26 Jun 2009 | 12:00 amWe have some questions about work – life balance. It sounds so nice at first. But when you really think about it, what exactly does it mean? ___ ___ Let’s start with the phrase itself. Work – life balance. It implies that work isn’t a part of life, doesn’t it? So is work death? And how do you figure out this whole balance thing. It seems like you would have to tightly define work and life. So what is work? For example, does work mean the time you spend making money? If so, a stay-at-home mom or dad doesn’t work! Yet we all know how hard their job can be.
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My Global Career
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Former Executives Seek to Monetize Talent
1 Jul 2009 | 11:01 pmIn the wake of an economic tsunami that has caused organizations to reduce staff at all levels, the market today is awash with out-of-work executives competing for dwindling job opportunities. Even among the companies that are hiring, the pressure is on to keep costs down. The current “cash-is-king” posture of most companies makes it difficult for hiring managers to justify big six figure executive investments. This is capping demand for even the most qualified of candidates. Executives in the corporate wilderness are left with a handful of choices. They can: Continue to work with… -
What’s Your Next Employer’s Signature Experience?
28 Jun 2009 | 11:01 pmBeyond the razzle-dazzle of beer bashes and company play days, “every company needs a signature experience that sets it apart.” That’s the thrust of a Harvard Business Review article called “What It Means to Work Here” by Tamara J. Erickson of the Concours Institute and Prof. Lynda Gratton of London Business School. In other words, why spend the prime time of your life at Hyundai when you could be at Honda? Or at Novo Nordisk when you could be at Pfizer? True, it helps focus your decision when one company wants you and its competitor does not. The authors state… -
Do Jobs Spread Virally Over Social Networks?
23 Jun 2009 | 11:01 pmWhen the scientific study hit the wires establishing that obesity spreads virally across large “social networks,” I figured that science was simply appropriating a popular cyberspace term. After all, if obesity could spread across Facebook, or MySpace, science would have a larger problem on its hands than excessive girth. Are my contacts on Facebook really that susceptible to my suggestions? If so, I have a get-rich-slowly scheme to sell them. Still, it’s obvious that some news and ideas spread virally over the Net; think about how many times you have spammed your friends… -
Is It Risky To Work With Friends?
21 Jun 2009 | 11:01 pmThey don’t teach this in management school, but learning how to build and maintain friendships in the workplace is a skill that can take you a long way in your career. Just ask the founders of Google and Yahoo! But then again, when friends ‘break-up’ at work, whether it’s a legal partnership, two chefs at a bistro, or heads of a public company such as Disney, it can cause a permanent rift in the relationship. The truth is it’s risky to work with friends. Yet it turns out that working with friends - or befriending co-workers - can enhance your job performance. -
Can You Bulletproof Your Job?
16 Jun 2009 | 11:01 pmHave you been distressed lately about the economy, your job or your boss? If so, you wouldn’t be alone. When times are toughest, most of us tend to wait out the storm rather than seek out other, perhaps even riskier opportunities. In his new book, Bulletproof Your Job, author Stephen Viscusi says that your “primary objective” at work is to protect your job because it is “your most valuable asset.” Forget the financial crisis; the issue is more primal than that. “Here’s the cold hard truth: If you don’t click with your boss, all that merit and…
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Marketing Headhunter
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Print Advertising and Reputational Search
20 Jun 2009 | 6:14 pmFUNNY STORY: From June 2005-March 2009, I was the only recruiter in America to advertise in Internet Retailer magazine. Online retail is my target market (for now), and Internet Retailer is my industry's flagship trade publication. Every month my ho-hum little classified ad was in the back, rain or shine, and every month no other recruiter's was. For 45 months. Imagine.I'm not bragging. I'm not. I'm just amazed, that's all.It was like getting away with murder. And it's not like my marketing strategy was some big, complicated thing: Every… -
Does your business card suck?
18 Jun 2009 | 10:22 amCHICAGO, IL - As someone who's self-employed, I'm a jobseeker. That's right. Everyday, I'm out there looking for a job to do, and the job I do is finding people jobs to do. Everyday I wake up broke. Everyday, the market determines my paycheck based on the value I create for my clients. Every frikkin day. And I love it.Anyway. The guy below seems like a piece of work, but he raises some very valid points about business cards. The coolest business card anyone ever gave me looked like a real plastic laminated driver's license -- except that it was a… -
How to Get an Ecommerce Job
13 Jun 2009 | 12:32 pmEditor's note: I first posted this article in Spring, 2007. For many months it was one of the most frequently read ecommerce articles on this site. However, due to some formatting problems involving Typepad's new platform, I am forced to republish this article here and now because I wanted to include it in a list called "INTERVIEW PREP" on the right hand side of this blog. Look right below my LinkedIn badge ...In case you're wondering, the candidate below DID NOT get this job, and he has asked to remain anonymous. Whatever. It was a heroic effort, and… -
Three Ways to Outlearn Your Competition
7 Jun 2009 | 5:44 pmHOUSTON, TX - I have no idea who this drummer is, but this is some badass percussive thought leadership! Hard enough to conceive, let alone execute. The real pyrotechnics don't start until 1:18. Until then, he's just establishing a rhythmic theme for the piece.So why am I putting this on an ecommerce blog? Three reasons: I like the way the artist decided to make a tape loop (!!!) and take apart this impossible groove piece by piece. Musicians call this "woodshedding" -- getting back to the woodshed and practicing one's craft in isolation until it's ready… -
GM: "The numbers don't copulate."
1 Jun 2009 | 9:34 pmThere is nothing as difficult and as expensive, but also nothing so futile, as trying to keep a corpse from stinking. -- Peter DruckerDETROIT, MI - Today's news on General Motors reminds me of an old boss who'd occasionally misuse big words. One time our sales team was holed up in a budget meeting, and when the boss noticed some numbers that didn't make sense, instead of simply saying "The numbers don't add up," he said "The numbers don't copulate ...". He meant to say "calculate." Honest mistake.By now you have read all about the GM…
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Business Pundit
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Business Pundit in July
2 Jul 2009 | 1:27 pmBusiness Pundit will be a little different in July. I’m going to spend the next couple of weeks sitting on an inflated device one mile beneath the earth. This is otherwise known as rafting the Grand Canyon, a once-in-a-lifetime trip that I was lucky enough to land a spot on this year. As a result, I won’t be blogging as regularly as I usually do, at least for a couple of weeks. During this time, Business Pundit will still feature original daily posts, mostly of Listmania persuasion, and a few interviews. I will be back towards the end of July. At that time, I hope to find a media… -
German “Geritol Gang” Tortures Financial Advisor Who Lost Their Savings
2 Jul 2009 | 11:52 amThe Sydney Morning Herald reports on a gang of German senior citizens who kidnapped and tortured their financial adviser: A group of wealthy pensioners has been accused of kidnapping and torturing a financial adviser who lost about $4 million of their savings. The pensioners, nicknamed the “Geritol Gang” by German police after an arthritis drug, face up to 15 years in jail if found guilty of subjecting German-American James Amburn to the alleged four-day ordeal. Two of them are said to have hit him with a Zimmer frame outside his home in Speyer, western Germany, before he was… -
Vaccines Are a Growth Industry
2 Jul 2009 | 9:40 amNovavax, Inc. announced today that it plans to license its vaccine technology to Spanish pharmaceutical company ROVI, who will use it to develop pandemic and seasonal flu vaccines (including one for novel H1N1). ROVI will also establish Spain’s only in-border vaccine production facility. This 60 million-euro program is sponsored and led by the Spanish Ministry of Health , is slated to eventually serve the entire population of Spain. Swine flu aside, the whole business of public-private funding and the process it takes to get vaccines to the mass market is interesting stuff, and you can… -
Sal Ferrara Takes on Kraft Foods
2 Jul 2009 | 7:55 amCrain’s Chicago Business has a sweet story about a potential Ferrara Pan Candy Co./Kraft Foods chocolate war: Feeling betrayed by Kraft Foods Inc. after the nation’s largest foodmaker killed a partnership with his family’s Ferrara Pan Candy Co., Mr. Ferrara plans to hit back. This fall, he’ll roll out a line of premium European-style chocolate designed to compete with Toblerone, the flagship Kraft candy bar his company distributed until last year. A 58-year-old who prefers handshake agreements to formal contracts, Mr. Ferrara isn’t fazed by taking on a bigger… -
OK! Magazine Michael Jackson Cover Goes Too Far
2 Jul 2009 | 7:31 amOK! Magazine’s latest issue shows a post-heart attack Michael Jackson on the cover. Tabloid rags are always pushing past the fringes of decency to grab reader attention, but this goes too far. It would have been acceptable if Michael Jackson had survived. But please, OK! Mag, remember the man as he was in his glory days. What are your thoughts on this cover?
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One Louder
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Ethical yoga: lead with your gut.
2 Jul 2009 | 7:49 amHere is a FastCompany article regarding thinking versus feeling decision-making when it comes to ethical choices. Of course, the "gut" isn't enough to actually make those decisions, but it certainly should be a filter through which to decide if you even will consider going there. What may have gotten us to this economic situation is a number of brains that do really convincing gut imitations. -
As you gather for your awkward family 4th of July
1 Jul 2009 | 4:40 pmYou know, Aunt Ruth always brings the fruit salad with the marshmallows. And that don't float in Seattle. And Jimmy tinkles in the pool. Cousin Lisa brings a new boyfriend and everyone calls him by the name of the old boyfriend. Anyway, as you gather for your awkward family 4th of July, remember that it could be *more* awkward. And it could be caught on film. -
Counter intuitively, working from home is for the extroverts
1 Jul 2009 | 10:55 amWhile I am not particularly surprised by this report, showing that the most effective home-workers are the extroverts, I do feel kind of validated by it. Or at least, I can stop asking myself "what is wrong with me that I *need* to go into the office?" Just to be clear, and I have a feeling that some of you won't believe me, I am an introvert. I am so totally an introvert. Frankly, the conversation in my head both keeps me amused and annoys me. Sometimes I remember a conversation I have had and then I remember that it was a virtual conversation...with myself. For you extroverts out there, I'm… -
Mourning and compartmentalization (AKA life and how to live it)
26 Jun 2009 | 9:07 amI didn't intend to get up on a day I am taking off from work, and write on the subject of death. But my monkey mind is spinning around some things I find curious and if I am going to relax today, I need to let my brain have it's way with them and then let them go. First things first. This is all about Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. If the discussion of them as humans with faults will make you cry, this is not the blog post for you (or maybe it is). Because they really are interesting subjects, from an objective standpoint. And I am very interested, now that I have social media… -
The secret ingredient in Pepsi is happy. Shhhh.
25 Jun 2009 | 7:47 amI flew into Dallas on Tuesday and yesterday gave a presentation at PepsiCo's Talent Acquisition Meeting. It was one of those presentations where I've been talking for 5 minutes and then I get the signal that I only have 5 minutes left and I have no idea how I did. On this trip I also premedicated with Sudafed and Flonase so I may or not have been speaking faster than normal...or maybe slower? I don't know. Anyway, it was a good trip. And hopefully, after my presentation. there are some PepsiCo folks looking at this post. To my regulars, I have to report that I did not see any "big hair". In…
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Career Hub
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"Man In The Mirror"
30 Jun 2009 | 7:29 pmI'm Gonna Make A Change; For Once In My Life; It's Gonna Feel Real Good, Gonna Make A Difference, Gonna Make It Right... Michael Jackson ~ "Man In The Mirror" Since hearing the sad news last week, I have been... -
The Changing Face of Careers and Work
30 Jun 2009 | 3:53 pmChange happens constantly in the world of work, it seems ever more rapidly. Remember when the Internet and email began to surface in your job function or job search about 10-15 years ago. After that came social networking via Facebook,... -
Using Social Media as a Career Management Tool
30 Jun 2009 | 2:06 pmI just finished attending a very informative webinar on social media offered by SelfGrowth and presented by its founder, David Riklan. A simple definition of social media is that it is "massive information sharing and and communication on the Internet."... -
What Michael Jackson, The Brand Icon, Can Teach You About Personal Branding
29 Jun 2009 | 1:54 pmThere was an article posted by on the Harvard Business Review How Michael Jackson Became a Brand Icon and interestingly it's author John Quelch kicked off with the following comment; "Countless books advise how to build your personal brand. Michael... -
Death of Three Personal Brands
26 Jun 2009 | 2:06 pmThis week marked the death of three personal brands, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Ed McMahon. What do you remember about each? Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was one of the all-time chart-toppers and had a short resurgence from the movie, "13...
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Slacker Manager
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Best Leadership Blogs 2009
2 Jul 2009 | 12:20 amKevin Eikenberry is holding a fantastic contest to select the best leadership blogs of 2009. He’s picked the best of the best, and though I don’t agree that all blogs are leadership blogs, the ones selected are outstanding. Without further ado, the nominees are: Leading Blog by Michael McKinney Great Leadership by Dan McCarthy Seth Godin’s Blog by Seth Godin Jon Gordon’s Blog by Jon Gordon Leadership is a Verb by John Bishop All Things Workplace by Steve Roesler Work Matters by Bob Sutton Leader Talk by Becky Robinson Next Level Blog by Scott Eblin Leadership At Work by John Baldoni… -
Teambuilding 101
1 Jul 2009 | 12:00 amI recently had a webinar about my new book Help Desk Manager’s Crash course, and many of the participants wanted to know more about teambuilding. I thought it’d be nice to share my primer here, and then dive a little deeper into activities that work, and finally into how to teambuild with peers and up the organization. Go first - As manager, you have to go first, show that you’re vulnerable, that you’re human, and that your team can trust you. If you aren’t willing to go first, why would anyone else want to contribute? Share something folks don’t already… -
Upbeat Winners: Please Email Me
30 Jun 2009 | 8:58 pmIf you were someone who won a copy of Rajesh Setty’s new book Upbeat, please send me a note at phil.gerbyshak @ b5media.com with your address. If you sent it already, I lost it. I tried to contact you, but I failed and it bounced back. Thanks again to Raj for sharing your book! Helen, who commented on Justin’s suggestion (in addition to another entry later in the contest): “It’s the GRATITUDE ATTITUDE — I LIKE IT Justin !!!” Angela Marasco, who shared 3 tips: “I have three top ways of staying upbeat! 1. I have a “no negativity” office policy! Only positive thoughts… -
Act Like An Owner
30 Jun 2009 | 12:22 amMany years ago, I worked for a company in Menomonee Falls called Strong Capital Management, since acquired by Wells Fargo. It was one of the most interesting places I’ve ever worked, with as many unwritten rules as written rules. I got a great background in the stock market, in customer service, and lifelong learning at Strong. It was the place that’s molded who I am more than any place else I have ever worked at. While I didn’t agree with everything the firm did, I am grateful for the opportunity I got to work there. One of the biggest things Dick Strong, the founder/owner of Strong… -
Goodbye to a Management Role Model
29 Jun 2009 | 12:20 amThis past week we lost a role model for managers everywhere. No, not Michael Jackson, though his music will be missed greatly. I’m talking about Billy Mays, celebrity pitchman for such products as Kaboom household cleaner and the amazing Zorbeez, and a role model for managers everywhere. If you’re wondering if I’ve lost my mind, I ask that you stay with me a little longer, and see the 5 reasons why Billy Mays was such a great role model for managers. Contagious Smile - The first thing I always noticed about Billy Mays was the guy is infectiously happy. Any time you watch one…
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The Monster Blog
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What's Keeping Me Up at Night During This Job Search?
2 Jul 2009 | 6:02 amIt’s about two months into my hunt for a new professional home. Kicking my job search into high gear has been an intense start-up process. Fortunately, there is a substantial variety of tools for all types of job seekers. Nonetheless, these thoughts cross my mind every night: "Will I ever find another job again?" or "What if there's no real fit for me at local companies, and I'll have to pull up stakes and move several states away?" or "How much more to the bone can I live without jeopardizing my well-being or that of my two young sons?” After all, I am… -
Getting Back in the Interviewing Groove
30 Jun 2009 | 6:11 amLo and behold, during the final stages of planning our mini-vacation to Chicago, I received a call to a much-desired interview with a local subsidiary of a multinational firm. The position is aligned with my marketing skills and, at the outset, looks like a good fit. The resume did its job and opened up the door for this first conversation with this firm. Now I’ll have to dust off my interview savvy from 9-plus years ago and weave in some of the new learnings to insure the next steps happen with this firm. You may have heard the old joke: “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” “Practice,… -
How to Balance Summer Fun and Your Job Hunt
25 Jun 2009 | 6:11 amAhhhh, the longest day just passed and we are officially in the summer season. So that means it is time for the beach and trips to the parks, mountains, aquariums and other fun spots! Oops, wait a minute. Can I really have fun while the prospect of continued unemployment is looming? With Owen and Evan’s preschool almost over for the academic year, I have to figure out how to balance their vacation and educational needs in the next 2½ months with my job search. For them, mommy still has to work very hard even though she goes to a different office (library, unemployment… -
Managing Expectations in Terms of Timing for the Job Search
23 Jun 2009 | 7:10 amThis experience has been rattling around my brain for a week or so: I encountered three of my fellow former colleagues who are equally as unemployed as I am (laid off the same day), and I asked the routine, “How’s the job search going?” Surprisingly, each one of them expressed anxiety and extreme frustration in not having landed a new position within 5 weeks of being laid off. It had never even occurred to me I would expect to be employed that fast again. Yet, almost to a T, each one of these presently unemployed colleagues voiced the same expectation. I was wondering why. I had heard… -
How to Handle the Most Frequently Noted Misconception About Being Unemployed
18 Jun 2009 | 5:56 amArghhhh! OK, I feel better. Yes, it is frustrating to be unemployed! However, even slightly more frustrating is the so-very-frequent mention by well-meaning friends and family: "Oh, now that you are unemployed, you have more time to do x, y or z.” So totally off the mark! In fact, I am getting less sleep per day given the multitude of tasks I do for my job search. Sleep is then the priority after the fundamentals of caring for my young boys, Owen and Evan, is done as well as the normal household routine. Job searching takes all the hours I’ve constructed for my daily duties;…
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Lisa Rosendahl's HR Thoughts
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Inspiring Words
2 Jul 2009 | 10:00 amThe following words came across in my Twitter stream the other day. I can't retweet without cutting out words and that would be an injustice. So, without further ado, here are inspriring words from TalentSynch aka Susan Burns. Enjoy! Just like sunshine & water enable plants to bloom, social media allows voices to emerge & social networking enables relationships to blossom Subscribe in a reader Photocredit iStockphoto -
On Parental Patience
30 Jun 2009 | 6:00 am"Have patience with me," said the kid to the mom and that was all it took to send the mom down a path of inquiry. Truth be known, it really doesn't take much. Days are full and lives are full. At the end of a full day, even the best can find themselves a bit drained. Throw in multiple requests to get the teeth brushed, the homework done and the snacking complete and patience can be in short supply. From the little day to day happenings to the big things in mind, life is full of opportunity and choices. The challenge lies in managing the equation and choosing "right" while forgetting… -
#SHRM 09
27 Jun 2009 | 9:15 amStaying behind as the cool kids head to the Big Easy? Me too but never fear, we are not far from the action. You can follow conference highlights at the 2009 SHRM Annual Conference Blog. And, taking a page from the Creative Chaos Consultant's book (read: steal shamelessly), up to the minute impressions from SHRM attendees is running below via Twitter hashtag #SHRM09 and Twubs. That consultant has such great ideas! #shrm09 Subscribe in a reader -
Book Review: The Essential HR Handbook
24 Jun 2009 | 6:00 amSo, you're thinking that maybe you'd like to be in Human Resources. You want to know more about the "must knows" of the profession. Yes? Well then, I have a book for you. The Essential HR Handbook by Sharon Armstrong and Barbara Mitchell is a cut-to-the-chase tell-me what-I-need-to-know primer that offers 12 chapters of human resource information, each touching on an element of human resources. Peppered with right-on quotes at the beginning of each chapter, this handbook "provides practical information, tools and techniques to help managers and HR professionals excel." From strategic planning… -
3 Thoughts From a New HR Professional
22 Jun 2009 | 6:00 amThis Guest Post is authored by Ben Eubanks, an HR professional who loves to write and enjoys giving and receiving career advice. Leaping into a field like HR is quite interesting. I’ve only been doing this for a short while, but I can tell that it’s like nothing else out there. We take problems and make them our own. We sometimes have the thankless job of policing and cleaning up after poor employee behaviors. But then there’s the other side of the equation. We fix problems. Help people to love their jobs. Reward people for performing exemplary work. Guide employees along…
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The Chief Happiness Officer
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Best resignation letter ever
1 Jul 2009 | 4:07 amCat Sacdalan, a graphics designer, was unhappy at work. Not only that, her father had been sick, and the fact that she’d been working at home a lot to be with him didn’t sit well with some of her co-workers. Cat wrote me that: For 8 months I’ve been postponing my resignation. I’m guilty of some of those top 10 bad excuses. It’s amazing; it’s like you wrote down everything I felt (and more). I finally decided to quit when, last week, my boss told me that people have come up to him, complaining that I shouldn’t be compensated for working outside the… -
Top quotes from the ippa conference
30 Jun 2009 | 1:02 amHappy at work in Philly The whole company (all 4 of us) were in Philadelphia for the ippa conference on Positive Psychology and we had a blast. This was the world’s leading conference on the topic with tons of speakers and 1500 attendees and we got to see all the big-wigs in the field, including Seligman, Zimbardo, Cooperrider, Csikszentmihalyi and Diener. Both Dieners in fact :o) My personal favorite of all the sessions was Ed Diener, who had the most new findings to offer AND was also an excellent speaker – something of a rarity at this very academic event. Here are some of the… -
A phenomenal cesspool of incompetence
19 Jun 2009 | 3:57 amClare over at “Thoughts from the C train” tells the story of one seeeeeeriously abusive customer: I got called that one time. Swear. Say it: Phenomenal Cesspool of Incompetence. It’s brilliant! I mean seriously, who can come up with that shit? Well I’ll tell you who . . . kind of. A little background. I’m a career banker, and I’ve always been on the operations side. Kind of a nuts and bolts of banking girl. I’ve also always managed people, which means the ugly situations get elevated to me. Once I had a customer who would send absolutely hideous… -
Going to Philly and NYC
17 Jun 2009 | 2:38 pmIn just 9 hours we (the whole company, ie. all 4 of us) fly to America to attend the ippa World Congress on Positive Psychology. After that we have some time in New York to meet with cool people and take in the city. 2009 has been amazing so far and there is much to celebrate – and a trip like this is a great way to do it. And remember, celebrating your victories is really, really important: Though of course it is possible to overdo it :o) -
My job is…
16 Jun 2009 | 1:30 amTry it yourself: Go to google, type in “my job is ” and look at the suggestions. Here’s what I got: Yikes! I don’t mean to be hasty here, but maybe – just maybe – there’s room for improvement in some workplaces :o) Related posts Top 10 bad excuses for staying in a crappy job. How to know it’s time to quit. Top 10 signs you’re not happy at work. Google loves Denmark.
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Managing Leadership
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Independence Day
2 Jul 2009 | 11:38 amThe evolving debate over the difference between us and the animals proceeds apace. Animals are now regarded as having true communication ability including language, generationally transmitted culture, even a wide range of what we had previously imagined to be solely human emotions. My personal favorite has always been the putative distinctions having to do with tools, and what they suggest about foresight and intelligence. We have long known that many animals both use and make tools. Recently, we even learned that some birds, presented with challenges regarding how to obtain food, have solved… -
Leadership asylum
1 Jul 2009 | 1:16 pmJohn Dryden, in “All for Love,” had one of Marc Antony’s generals say this about him: I love this man, who runs to meet his ruin; And sure the gods, like me, are fond of him: His virtues lie so mingled with his crimes, As would confound their choice to punish one, And not reward the other. We’ve talked here before about this – the idea that the presumptively great virtues inescapably come with equally great vices. Where this is the case, it seems, sadly, that the former inevitably succumb to the latter. It is the person’s vices that ultimately determine his or her fate; the… -
Leadership landscape
29 Jun 2009 | 11:46 pmThe first thing that should cause us to question the value of the current dialogue about leadership in our organizations is the wide variety of peculiar sorts who appear in it. Bear in mind that this dialogue, peopled with so stunning an array of protagonists, is conducted everywhere from major consultancies and universities to the best-selling business books. But this landscape we attempt to navigate with their aid is, indeed, littered with peculiar fellows. Here are just a few that have made appearances in the past year or so: The chieftain The governor The authoritarian The shaman The… -
Trumpets
28 Jun 2009 | 11:46 pmThe issues we’ve discussed here over the past weeks revolve around ill-considered or non-existent premises for individual leadership. These, as we’ve attempted to show, result in attempts to unthinkingly apply antiquated models today, or in dreamy notions that are propelled to our attention with great fanfare and excitement, but that then, lacking foundation, simply drift pointlessly and aimlessly away. There is one thing we do fairly consistently, though. As we develop leaders in accordance with each succeeding leadership enthusiasm, we encourage them all to rely unquestioningly on those… -
Echolalia
26 Jun 2009 | 9:19 amThat’s the word of the day: echolalia. It is used generally to refer to the reflexive repetition of what one has just heard (see here for such a use of it, but also here for more specific definitions). There are two ways otherwise normal people can find themselves falling into this peculiar habit. One is through discipline; the fully aware, intentional regurgitation of something you may not fully agree with, but which advances a larger cause you do believe in. An example of this was given by a colleague of mine a few years ago. Every morning over coffee we would have our daily good-natured…
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Employment Digest
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Simple steps for impressing the employer on an interview
2 Jul 2009 | 11:39 amIn this article I will share with you the secret in how to impress the employer on an interview. Below are your wining secrets to impress your employer during an interview: 1. Make sure you appear... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] -
10 Things to Include in a Resume
2 Jul 2009 | 6:25 amThere are 10 things to include in a resume. That is an undeniable fact. Before discussing what these things are, consider what makes one resume stand out from the crowd. Why does more than 75% of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] -
Find a Mentor to Help Further Your Career
1 Jul 2009 | 6:38 amIf you have plans to make a success of your career, then a mentor is a great person to have on your team. They will have the experience and the advice to help grow your career. Assist your chosen... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] -
Ford Myers – Career Consultant
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3 Steps to a Better Career and a Better Life with Telecommuting
30 Jun 2009 | 2:22 pmYou’ve known for a while that you want to work from home, but you are not sure how to get started. There are probably many talents that you already possess that you haven’t been able to utilize fully... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Six Degrees
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Meet Steve Rath, ‘Mickey Mantle Corp Recruiter,’ Part 2: “How Does He Do It?”
29 Jun 2009 | 8:22 pmBy Dave Mendoza RecruitingBlogs Linkedin Profile Twitter Facebook Website Phone: (770) 803-0444 Email Six Degrees: How many applicants at your present employer do you estimate are hired from your corporate website as compared to how many are hired through referrals? Steve: I’d have to say that it’s been my experience that I’ve seen more qualified candidates come the way of employee referrals over the corporate web site. I’d also say that I believe employee referrals will continue to rise with the introduction of the social networking and it’s impact on our industry. Six Degrees:… -
Jigsaw Launches “Jigsaw Data Fusion”
26 Jun 2009 | 9:08 amVery cool, check it out! Jigsaw Data Fusion What if you never ran out of quality, passive job candidates? What if your CRM was always up-to-date? Now you can get both with Data Fusion—the only product that brings together automated data hygiene and management with unlimited access to millions of professional business Contacts. Learn More! ABOUT JIGSAW Business Directory Jigsaw is a business directory where you can find contact and company information. Our business directory has business contact information for private as well as public companies. Find companies by geography in any industry… -
Meet Bruce Tracy of “Technical Professionals”, “We can no longer operate in a Vacuum”
25 Jun 2009 | 2:27 am“Here is my greatest piece of advice on networking: Do it even when you don’t need it yourself” • Linkedin Profile • RecruitingBlogs Profile • Twitter Profile • Website • Phone: 208-830-3523 • Email Bruce is a high connector on Linkedin and an avid social media activist with over 20 years of engineering experience in the telecommunications, aerospace and semiconductor industries. Bruce has an Expertise in Engineering/Management recruiting in engineering (semiconductor industry, oil and gas, construction, geology etc.) which he shares with his staff at Technical… -
Neil Cavuto: Hello Tax Hikes for EVERYONE, goodbye Social Security.
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Meet Steve Rath, Mickey Mantle of Contract Recruiters, Proud Braves Fan of Square Pants
16 Jun 2009 | 11:19 pmBy Dave Mendoza “One of my most cherished art pieces is a drawing I did of Mickey Mantle of the NY Yankees. Mickey signed my work back in the late 70’s. I framed it and currently have it proudly displayed in my man cave along with some of my other paintings of Pete Rose, Jim Rice, Ali/Frazier, and Rocky.” RecruitingBlogs Linkedin Profile Twitter Facebook Website Phone: (770) 803-0444 Email Steve Rath is a Microsoft staffing consultant alumni with over 20 years of diverse experience aligning talent strategies with business strategies. He is an experienced talent acquisition…
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The Chad Enjoy the Game
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Job Cross Pollination Duplication
24 Jun 2009 | 4:50 amThe internet has been experiencing a massive amount of duplicate job content over the past couple of years. No question this content has been used to help job seekers find jobs, unfortunately it has also been used to leverage traffic using duplicative content, extract job seeker information and create many other issues not intended in the free flow of job information. How did this start? Quick history.. In 2002 iLogos Research (now Taleo Research) performed research which illustrated that less than 30% of Fortune 500 companies’ jobs were listed on the big 3 job boards. This research… -
Dan Pink - Abundance, Asia & Automation
16 Jun 2009 | 5:31 amI’m a big fan of Dan Pink and thought I’d share a short video of him giving an overview of Abundance, Asia and Automation… Social Bookmarks -
Talent STRONG!
15 Jun 2009 | 6:36 amIn January, before demobilizing back to civilian life, I was honored to speak to a group of over 200 Wounded Warriors in Fort Benning regarding transition into civilian life and what they should convey to prospective employers when trying to separate themselves from the mainly civilian pack when searching for a job. Luckily the week prior I was asked to give a presentation to Continental Airlines recruiting group about the advantage of hiring prior military. Continental’s John Whalin is ahead of most when it comes to understanding just what military brings to the hiring table,… -
The year the media died
11 Jun 2009 | 5:00 amWhile sitting back and enjoying your morning cup of joe, take a few minutes and watch Terry Kawaja’s “Madison Avenue Blues“.. It is HILARIOUS!!! Thanks John Social Bookmarks -
CareerBuilder is greasing palms again
9 Jun 2009 | 6:08 amCan your niche job board afford to take the top executives in the Nation to Pinehurst Golf Resort for an all expenses paid “Executive Golf Trip“? CareerBuilder can.. Oh the fine tradition of greasing the palms continues in the recruiting space. (insert deeply rooted sarcasm here) Social Bookmarks
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Lindsey Pollak Career Blog
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Next episode of 30/20 Vision Radio Show: Monday, June 22nd at 5pm ET
21 Jun 2009 | 9:43 amPlease join us for the next edition of 30/20 Vision, the monthly radio show for twentysomethings who wish they had a few big sisters to clue them in on the ins and outs of life after college. The show will feature your regular hosts, thirtysomething authors Christine Hassler, Alexandra Levit and me. It will air live Monday, June 22nd at 5PM ET. We’ll be talking about our relationships with MEN over the years — this should be a fun one! Hope you’ll join us live on Monday or listen to the replay. -
Guest Post: Gen Y, Body-Build Your Resumes!
16 Jun 2009 | 8:33 amToday I’m pleased to share a guest post from Chris Perry, a Gen Y Brand and Marketing Generator, a Career Search and Personal Branding Expert and the Founder of Career Rocketeer, the Career Search and Personal Branding Blog. Whether you know it or not, we Gen Yers have a competitive edge over older job seekers in the career search. We are less expensive to hire, we are more impressionable (not having already settled into one company culture or way of doing things), and we have grown up with ever-changing technology, having become fast learners as a result. However, the major obstacle… -
Seeking volunteers for a college student focus group in NYC
14 Jun 2009 | 8:46 pmI’m working on a project with a corporate client in NYC, and we are seeking college student volunteers to participate in a focus group to gather student opinions in the area of marketing. I will be moderating the focus group and would be super grateful for your participation. Participants must be available to devote two hours on Tuesday, June 23rd, from 6:30pm- 8:30pm OR Wednesday, June 24th, from 6:30- 8:30pm, to offer their candid opinions in a group setting. The focus groups will be held in midtown Manhattan. The group will be anonymous — any information recorded from these… -
Career Clippings: What I’m reading
3 Jun 2009 | 7:18 pmTwo weeks ago I moved into a new apartment and office, so life has been a bit chaotic. One of the areas where I’ve fallen behind is my reading. I currently have a stack of clipped articles, tagged magazines (so old media, I know) and a “favorites” file full of bookmarked articles I’ve come across online but haven’t had time to read. Here is a chunk of my current “to-read” list. I hope this will guide you to some interesting content. And, if I never make it to the bottom of my stack, hopefully you can share your thoughts with me on what you’ve… -
Welcome to my new website and blog!
1 Jun 2009 | 6:08 amToday marks a new month and a new design for LindseyPollak.com! I’m excited to share this new website and blog design, which features more career advice videos, more social networking opportunities, more information about my campus and corporate speaking and — coming soon — audio downloads. Many thanks to Scott Weiner of Brandwagon for all of his creativity and hard work. I hope you enjoy the new website and please share any feedback you have!
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The Anti Pimp
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I Hate People – The Book – Win One!
30 Jun 2009 | 10:52 amThe authors of “I Hate People”, Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon were so gracious for sending over a few copies of their latest and greatest creation. Review “I Hate People! is the definitive guide for creating a job you love – even though you are trapped with jerks and creeps of every stripe. Littman and Hershon tell great stories, give inspired advice, and wrap it all in the most fun management book since Orbiting the Giant Hairball.” –Robert I. Sutton, author of The No Asshole Rule and professor of management science and engineering, Stanford University… -
10 Things That Recruiters Do That Irritate Me – A Recruiter
22 Jun 2009 | 6:35 pmOne of my more recent articles was written by a long time technical contact and friend of mine titled “7 Things That Recruiters Do To Irritate Me”. Apparently it wasn’t clear who actually wrote the “meat” of that posting but it was someone who’d dealt with recruiters for the last several years as a candidate/job seeker. I added a few talking points but it was more of an outlet for someone that I have a pile of respect for and though that his opinions should be heard by my readers. 10 Things That Recruiters Do That Irritate Me – A Recruiter 2 bit… -
I sold out – and you would too so shutty!!
21 Jun 2009 | 11:42 amI’d like to welcome my ONLY sponsor – Eric Ross Winery. While in Sonoma, California a few weeks back I waltzed into his winery and was lucky enough to have Eric Luse – the wine maker – pouring samples. I’ll admit it, I’m a beer kinda guy and have wine on special occasions but after hearing him talk about the art behind his wines, I was all ears (and liver). If you have a chance, click the button on the right side of the page and pay him a visit. If you are in Sonoma, stop by and tell him that I sent you and he’ll take good care of you. Follow… -
How a Software Developer Cleans the Kitchen
17 Jun 2009 | 7:02 amI also recieved a suggestion from another reader that it should read: if( !dishwasher_full && have_dirty_dish) { insert_dirty_dish(); if (dishwasher_full || motherinlaw_is_coming){ start_dishwasher(); } { if ( dishwasher_clean) { empty_dishwasher();} Geek humor is the best kind….. -
Confirmation that I kick ass. Alltop gets Anti-Pimped
15 Jun 2009 | 2:33 pmAlltop.com recently added TheAntiPimp.com to it’s “Top Career News” page. So, what’s in it for me? For those that visit Alltop.com and even more specific the Career section, you’ll see my site I get to have a really cool button that says “kick ass” on the front of my page I can say that I’ve actually exchanged emails with Guy Kawasaki My fervor is even more widespread. Sorta like swine flu. Seriously – if you’ve not set up an Alltop page, now is the time. Guy Kawasaki and his minions are kicking serious ass with the setup of…
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HR Daily Advisor
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HR as Strategic Partner? Restructure, Rebrand
2 Jul 2009 | 12:00 amYesterday's Advisor covered the first four steps recommended by HR.BLR.com® for moving HR from service provider to strategic partner. Today, we'll cover reorganizing, branding, and metrics, and we'll take a look at a special resource for smaller HR departments. -
Want a Seat at 'the Table'? Think Strategically
1 Jul 2009 | 12:00 amThe managers in charge of the company's most expensive asset—its employees—are often overlooked for the strategic management team. Want a seat at the table? Think strategically and demonstrate how meeting staffing and talent needs is critical to achieving strategic objectives. -
"Satisfactory" really means "poor," Your Honor.
30 Jun 2009 | 12:00 amThere's nothing quite like an untrained manager's documentation. Yesterday's Advisor presented attorney Allison West's first four principles of "bulletproof documentation." Today, we'll see steps 5 through 7 of the bulletproofing process, and take a look at a unique new training program. -
'Weak documentation … I find for plaintiff'
29 Jun 2009 | 12:00 amDocumentation. It should be one of management's easiest tasks, yet it's often done poorly or not at all. And there's nothing like inadequate documentation to derail the defense in an employee lawsuit. -
'Free Choice Act' Is Deceptive Labeling, Lawyer Says
26 Jun 2009 | 12:00 amAttorney Phillip Russell, a speaker at the upcoming National Employment Law Update conference, says the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is laden with pitfalls for employers and employees alike.
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The Chin Family in Asia
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Summer 2009 in SF
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Cherry Picking
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Eating Live Squid and Crab in Korea
26 May 2009 | 4:18 pmI had dinner with friends during my business trip in Seoul this week. In addition to the regular order of Kalbi (BBQ rib) we also order "live squid." They were still moving and the squids "suction cups" were stuck to the plate. Enjoy. Raw Crab - this tasted pretty good. -
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Ming's 9th Birthday Party
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CEO Blog - Time Leadership
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Seeing What's Next
1 Jul 2009 | 5:48 amI am back in reading mode and am many blog entries behind on my book reviews. I love reading (thanks mom) and am inspired by good business books. They help me to grow. As I face business challenges, I often find a book gives me the needed ideas to shake me lose.I read an awesome book by one of the leading thinkers of our time - Clay Christensen called "Seeing What's Next - Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change".Christensen is great. He come up with the theory of disruptive innovation in his previous book - Innovators Dilemma.From Don Mitchell's review on Amazon (note the… -
Inside the Mind of the Turtles
28 Jun 2009 | 7:42 am"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James Bryant ConantI usually do not read books about the stock market/trading etc. but I figure a change never hurts. It is apt that I would read it since I am staying in the Hamptons this weekend courtesy of my Oppenheimer broker - Kyle Wool (thanks Kyle)Inside the Minds of the Turtles by Curtis Faith is a book about risk, markets and trading. The Turtles are a group of traders who studied under Rich Dennis in the mid eighties. They were rampantly successful.The book emphasizes the need for risk taking (and as an… -
The Second 30 Day Plan - The 5 Why's
26 Jun 2009 | 8:53 amI am officially done 4 weeks as Nu Horizons President and CEO today. I had a 90 day plan when I started. The first 30 days were "Listen and Learn". I found it very hard to sit back and not take action (and I admit, I did take action on a few things). The plan was to learn. The industry, although similar to my previous experience, was different. And even if the industry was identical, there would be clear cultural differences between any two companies that I needed to learn.So what is the second 30 day plan? The 5 Why's. We need to drill into why we do everything. The 5 Why's program is a… -
Keeping the Millennials
23 Jun 2009 | 10:07 pmI read a great book by Dr. Joanne Sujansky and Dr Jan Ferri-Reed called "Keeping the Millennials - Why Companies are Losing Billions in Turnover to the Generation and What to do about it"My knee jerk reaction when I first got the book was to reject it. I thought "in this economy (even though I do see it improving), who would need to worry about recruiting and keeping staff." I thought "poor timing to release a book like this". I also tend to dislike books the categorize people and say all millennials do this or that. I know I am not typical of any group and I think most people are also… -
Be content or should you be? Lao Tzu
19 Jun 2009 | 2:56 pm"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize nothing's lacking, the whole world belongs to you" ~ Lao TzuUnfortunately I tend towards the discontented (not to be confused with malcontent). At one point in my life I thought "Why am I never happy with what is". After a few weeks, I realized this discontent is a source of power and success for me so I no longer fight it. It helps drive me.And at some level, the modest success I have does cause me to be content. I lead a charmed life and I know it.Week 3 at Nu Horizons draws to a close. It feels like longer. I…
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Diggings
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The Dumbing of America…
2 Jul 2009 | 11:42 amOne of the most compelling and critically important side stories (or maybe it is THE story and the business stuff is secondary) related to the death of the daily newspaper is the impact on our communities, our society, and our democracy. There are a wide range of opinions about what will happen to the vacuum being created as newspapers implode and disappear, or at a very minimum, become far less able to afford true journalism. I subscribe to the belief that the concern is extremely justified, but that successful alternatives are already emerging and will continue to do so at an accelarting… -
Why Use Video When A Photo Will Do?
29 Jun 2009 | 11:50 amWhile the abuse that traditional media receives on a daily basis (i.e., it’s dying, they’re dinosaurs, they don’t get it, they’re clueless, etc.) is probably excessive, exaggerated, and in some cases even unfair, there is little doubt that much of it is accurate and well deserved. Examples of the missteps both large and small that media companies, and especially the behemoth conglomerates, occur virtually every day, and commenting on them has lost its luster of late and even generates scorn and derision from some in the new media camp. Nevertheless, I had to chuckle… -
More Evidence Of The Obvious: Online Classifieds Are Soaring But The Dailies Are Struggling
17 Jun 2009 | 10:27 amHere is the last day (finally) of cleaning out my backlog of stories relating to the dailies, traditional media, new media, advertising, etc. Some of these headlines are slightly outdated, but so be it. • Village Voice Media is stepping in to capitalize on the opportunity completely missed by the dailies in creating a local advertising network. This may turn out to have been the biggest whiff of all the missteps of the dailies over the last decade. And while that may be arguable given how badly the dailies have handled their fortunes of late, there is no arguing that in these late innings,… -
More Chaos Surrounding The Dailies
11 Jun 2009 | 8:21 amAs I indicated yesterday, I have a huge backlog of daily newspaper, media, and advertising news items that have accumulated over the past few weeks and am trying to get through them in as few blog posts as possible, so here’s day two of cleaning out the closet… • McClatchy is scrambling on multiple fronts to stay ahead of the avalanche crashing down around it. The company has restructured its debt, accepting a 3x increase in the interest rate it’s paying (5% to 15%) in exchange for an extension on the debt of a few years. In the head-scratching department, the company is… -
Answers For Newspapers Are Starting To Emerge
10 Jun 2009 | 9:26 amTaking a few weeks off from posting the latest headlines concerning the plight of the dailies has created a massive backlog of items to list. I am not sure if the pace of noteworthy events is accelerating or if it just seems that way due to my short hiatus, but I have about 3 blog posts worth of items to try to get through this week, so here’s the first batch: • The saga of the Boston Globe continues, with growing acrimony between management and the unions. • Global readership of newspapers continues to rise, and readership of and traffic stats surrounding newspaper websites…
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Work Happy Now!
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The Effects of Fast Food
1 Jul 2009 | 8:09 pm(Can’t see the video? Then click here and try watching it at Work Happy Now) Fast food is a energy killer. I feel grumpy and lethargic after I eat fast food. The salt, grease, and preservatives can bring even the strongest person down. Your ability to enjoy your job has a lot to do with what you put in your body. If you want to increase your happiness at work, take notice of what you eat and how it makes you feel. Try replacing a fast food lunch with something healthier; you will improve your happiness at work. How does fast food make you feel? When I’m in the need for a few… -
What do I do if I’m unhappy at Work?
28 Jun 2009 | 3:10 pmEvery person becomes unhappy at work at some time or another. It’s the natural emotional ebb and flow of being human. Even the best job has its problems. You probably have certain expectations that can’t be met. These expectations must be emotionally bridged or you will constantly be grasping for unattainable happiness. This article is not about settling for a crappy job. That’s the furthest thing from my mind. I believe we need to optimize our present happiness while planning our most rewarding future. First you must allow yourself to feel and understand your present… -
Depression at Work
25 Jun 2009 | 7:48 pm(Can’t see the video? Then click here and try watching it at Work Happy Now) Depression costs billions of dollars in lost revenue each year. We need to get at the root of why people are depressed and figure out how we can help them become happier at work. It’s why I created the Happy at Work Project (It’s a free PDF). I used to be depressed at work and I found help. If you aren’t happy at work then you need to make a plan and find a way to make it a reality. It comes down to knowing yourself. Once you understand what you need, you can make the career shift that will… -
My Work Happiness Journey
23 Jun 2009 | 7:01 pmWhile my work happiness journey will never end, I understand this and I’m ok with it. I realize that I’m just beginning to have fun with work, networking, and everything that goes along with a career. I began my journey over 12 years ago, but I won’t bore you with all that detail. I’ll take you straight to the important stuff. I wanted to discover the best techniques to bring me consistent happiness. I started off writing about personal development because I felt a void in my life, but as time trudged on I began to narrow my focus to a particular issue that I struggled with and I knew… -
What is Your Perfect Work Schedule?
21 Jun 2009 | 3:23 pmI asked my Twitter followers, “I love working 10-12 hour days with long breaks (30min - 1 hr) every couple of hours. What are your perfect working hours?” Two of my favorite responses were… AndRam @workhappynow i work 10 to 2 pm. take a long lunch break and then back around 4 or 5 till 8 or 9…1:16 PM May 3rd from twhirl in reply to workhappynow LilianChisca @workhappynow I use the 60/60/30 Formula I learned from @ebenpagan’s Wake Up Productive video trainings.12:29 PM May 3rd from TweetDeck in reply to workhappynow He went on to explain: LilianChisca @workhappynow…
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Digital Recruiting
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CIPD Awards
2 Jul 2009 | 4:32 amWe attended the CIPD awards on Tuesday night at the Honourable Artillery Company near Old street. The sun was shining, the location lovely and MediaCom's work was recognised with three gongs. Two for our work for Shell with JWT (Digital and Innovation) and one for The Met Police with aia (Outdoor) - an integrated media campaign that involved a media recruitment first with a digital six sheet. This outdoor recruitment first, was one, in a long line of innovative firsts, planned by Celine Marshall in our team here for the Met Police, and so, we were delighted that this was recognised with an… -
Biting the hand that feeds you
24 Jun 2009 | 9:38 amI was at one of my oldest friend's Charlotte's Solstice day party on Saturday. It started at 3pm and ended at 3am and was hosted at the commune/shared-housing home that Charlotte lives in in Islington. The day involved a fig tree ceremony where all party goers congregated in the garden, meditated and made a wish for the community and for themselves. Yup - was full-on, tree-hugger, liberal paradise. The sun was still shining when a lady came up to myself and a friend and asked could she have a cigarette, we happily obliged and we got to talking. She was in her fifties, already a bit tipsy and… -
Taking a little issue with LinkedIn believeing their own hype - Social Recruiting Summit
15 Jun 2009 | 3:09 pmSo for those of you who don't follow @mattalder on twitter (or work in whatever corners of Barkers Matt's cheery demeanor brightens each day, or belong to his close family and are in regular contact with him) you won't know that he's currently hobnobbing with some of the great and most connected of digital recruitment world at the Social Recruiting Summit - being held at the uber webcool venue that is google HQ. Anyway - as part of the stream of tweets coming out of google HQ (which, as I write this with the day only just starting, has me thinking that it won't be long before twitter falls… -
Workthing+ - what I saw
15 Jun 2009 | 5:31 amWith the recent launch of Workthing+, the “is it right to charge candidates?” debate was certainly re-ignited (read some of it here on Recruiting Futurology). I wanted to step a little away from that particular cut and thrust and, having tried to give it a bit more time to look at all that’s on offer, give my take on the Workthing+ offer itself. It probably is worth stating for the record though that I have no problem with anyone charging for a service, whatever that may be - I actually kinda prefer that sort of transparency because it allows you to make an informed decision about the… -
The end of an era?
5 Jun 2009 | 4:19 am
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Integration of tribes into civil society
2 Jul 2009 | 8:11 amTribes have a disintegrating effect on law and order when they are not integrated into their civil societies. This pattern is obvious at the scale of nation-states with warring tribes, military juntas, smuggling rings, urban gangs and drug cartels. Their honor code refutes the imposed legal code that frames them as "outlaws" to be hunted down and killed. The same pattern emerges less violently within stable institutions as the shared identities of political action groups, sports teams, fraternities, "the old guard", splinter groups, rival factions, and privileged elites. Tribes within… -
Personal integration - relational interdependence
1 Jul 2009 | 2:25 pmDavid Ronfeldt's latest post has given us tons of food for thought on ways to characterize the evolution of society beyond tribes, institutions and markets. Today I'll explore my uses of the concept of "integration" and tie it into the relational grammars I previously aligned with his TIMN framework. Ronfeldt wrote:Consider how Adler and Heckscher associate hierarchies with dependence, markets with independence, and collaborative community with interdependence. Okay, I see their point. But it may also be true that hierarchies and markets are rife with their own interdependencies. Furthermore,… -
Leading as if we're great
30 Jun 2009 | 8:14 amI'm in the midst of reading two books about leadership. They've already tied together in my mind with the leadership college courses I've taught and my latest exploration of our tribal mindsets. First there is a question of size. How big is the leader's constituency of followers and/or contributors? If the size is under the Dunbar number of 148, it's possible, but not inevitable, it will feel like belonging to a tribe with wonderful solidarity. It's small enough for everyone to be on a first name basis and familiar with each others uniqueness. If the following exceeds the Dunbar number,… -
Honoring four kinds of perceived value
29 Jun 2009 | 9:51 amOur tribal instincts honor the value we perceive in other people, their personal conduct and goods we exchange. We feel honored by those who provide whatever we perceive as valuable. For others to successfully provide what we perceive as valuable, they must first get a read on where we're coming from. Otherwise what they deliver will be a hit or miss affair that could even appear insulting, punitive or dishonorable. We're fully equipped with tribal instincts to handle a slap in the face as effectively as getting honored with what we perceive as valuable.As I've mentored entrepreneurs to get… -
Amazing institutions
26 Jun 2009 | 8:12 amFor the past few days, I've been psyching out the underlying psychological dynamics of tribal mindsets, value positions and patterns of conduct. I first concluded: "people in these mental states would be stuck living in tribes". There first appeared to be no alternative to tribal existences that they could cope with, find attractive or settle into comfortably. Later I realized that I was wrong to jump to that conclusion. The nature of institutions, hierarchies, monarchies, empires and bureaucracies all welcome the tribal mindset as their workforce. There are remarkable synergies between the…
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Job Search Blog at RiseSmart
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Is relocation worth the risk?
1 Jul 2009 | 5:26 amHave you seen “The Proposal” yet? This latest workplace-centered movie, starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, is sweet, funny, and steamy in places and can make even tough guys misty-eyed. Not to mention that incredible Alaskan scenery — and the fact that there’s no recession in sight. It’s a nice escape. But there is one current reality the movie does portray, in its tale of a transplanted Canadian and a dream-seeking Alaskan relocated to New York: the willingness of people to pick up and move almost anywhere for a job. Talent Follows Jobs Talent still goes where… -
Is it time to get a grip on your succession plan?
30 Jun 2009 | 1:17 pmImage by CarbonNYC Succession planning is tough; we all know that. Creating a concrete plan for an inherently unpredictable situation is a slippery business. What’s more, it’s easy to neglect the process while the economy is in a recession. Your retention rates of existing employees are most likely up, and new candidates are beating down the door just to be considered. Despite this embarrassment of riches on the resource side, succession planning is a critical process that must not be overlooked. Here’s why: It’s crucial to the fate of the company in moments of change. In a… -
Workplaces that work require both leaders and managers. Here’s how to tell the difference
26 Jun 2009 | 9:15 amToday’s job market may feel a bit like Dr. Dolittle’s fantastical trip to Africa, with odd creatures popping up along the journey, but the reality is the “workplace that works” hasn’t changed as much as some might think. Fantasy aside, it’s still pulled by leaders and pushed by managers. It takes both. The “pushmi-pullyu” in Dr. Dolittle’s great adventure was a two-headed antelope who got nowhere because one head pulled and the other pushed. Both wanted to lead; neither would follow. Fun in a children’s book; disaster in the workplace. In these tighter times, corporations… -
RiseSmart highlighted in the U.K.’s HR Magazine
11 Jun 2009 | 7:24 amThe U.K.’s HR Magazine recently published an in-depth story on online outplacement programs, and how technology promises to reshape the outplacement industry. RiseSmart was featured prominently in the story by Robert Gray. Here’s an excerpt from the article: With the pace of technological change showing no sign of slowing down, it was only a matter of time before outplacement technologies and those of the job boards began to merge. RiseSmart, a Dallas-based job site for $100,000-plus executives, marries technology with human expertise using its Job Concierge team. In December… -
Dallas Morning News on RiseSmart/UT Dallas partnership
22 May 2009 | 7:19 amThe Dallas Morning News published a story Wednesday on RiseSmart’s partnership with the University of Texas at Dallas. Here’s an excerpt: Business school graduates typically aim for high-paying dream jobs, but those are scarce today. Job competition is fierce. The nation has shed 5.7 million jobs since the recession began in December 2007, including senior management jobs. Help is on the way for students in the Executive Master of Business Administration program at the University of Texas at Dallas. The school recently hired RiseSmart to provide Web-based job search and…
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Escape From Corporate America
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Hypnotize with Your Words — Learn Persuasive Writing Skills
2 Jul 2009 | 6:14 amLearning how to write to persuade can really pay off in the business world. Your writing can sell a product or service, score you a job interview, justify a promotion or raise, establish credibility with a client or boss, motivate a difficult employee, or win support for your cause. In the current hyper-competitive business environment, persuasive writing skills are more valuable than ever before. That’s why I worked with the American Management Association (AMA) to develop a live 90-minute webinar that teaches the 12 proven techniques for writing persuasively. The webinar will take… -
Scott Jordan — SeV Founder on Escaping from Corporate America
30 Jun 2009 | 2:42 pmScott Jordan is the founder and CEO of SCOTTEVEST/SeV, the company behind the gadget-friendly clothing line that has earned rave reviews from everyone from The New York Times to Matthew McConaughey. SeV’s vests, jackets, and pants include hidden pockets to hold all of your technology devices and conceal and manage the wires — perfect for tech geeks on the go (including Steve Wozniak, who is on SeV’s advisory board). But back in the 1990’s, Scott Jordan was a miserable corporate lawyer with a wild idea and no experience in clothing design or manufacturing. He took a a… -
Goodbye to Farrah and Michael — From Gen X With Love
26 Jun 2009 | 6:32 amMembers of Generation X are mourning two of our childhood icons with the passing of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett on the same day. I didn’t really think about the Generation X connection until I saw this article by Ted Anthony for the Associated Press. But Farrah and Michael really were the faces of our childhood fantasies and memories. “These people were on our lunchboxes,” said one Gen Xer interviewed for the AP story. In fact, I was the proud owner of a Charlie’s Angels lunchbox. It was my very first lunchbox…I think it was for first grade or second… -
NYC Start-Up Event
22 Jun 2009 | 1:42 pmThe New York Post is hosting a great event for entrepreneurs and future entrepreneurs this Wednesday. NYC Start-Up is a full day of seminars, panels, and presentations by small business experts – including venture capitalists, successful entrepreneurs, technology and finance experts, and New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Development. Learn what you need to do to start up successfully in this economic environment. Attendees will also have the opportunity to pitch their business ideas to venture capital experts and network with speakers and fellow business owners. -
Career Advice from Michael Jordan
21 Jun 2009 | 8:49 pm“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan I love this quote from Michael Jordan. For months, I have been researching the best practices of the most innovative companies and the most successful entrepreneurs. The most dramatic success stories all include lots of failure stories along the way. Fail and learn from your failures and keep moving ahead. Be like…
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life@work
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What It Takes To Change Careers In Midlife
1 Jul 2009 | 3:25 pmI get a number of calls every month from people in their late 30’s, 40's or 50's who want to know what kind of process I go through with clients to help them change careers. They’re all revved up about possibility and change. Some of them sign up for the adventure while others, sighing as they hang up the phone, do not. Changing careers after 10 or more years is an incredibly daunting task. It’s a complex process that takes a whole lot of energy, creativity, persistence and work. And chances are you are already engaged in a life that requires a whole lot of energy, creativity,… -
What Season of Transition Are You In?
24 Jun 2009 | 11:36 amA transition is "the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another".Transitional times are challenging times. There are highs and lows, factors in and out of our control, and it can take a long time to go through a transition completely. Some would argue that all of us are in some kind of transition most of the time. It's worth knowing whether you're in a transition and where you are in its cycle. When you understand what you're experiencing, you can develop new perspectives, learn how to be a little kinder to yourself and prepare for what's coming next in your… -
Why Deciding to Change Is So Difficult
18 Jun 2009 | 3:11 pmWhy is it so hard to make a career change?Let me count the ways. We may not have the information, training, education or contacts that we need, just for starters. Or perhaps simply the act of making the decision to make the career change is a huge hurdle to clear. After all, deciding to make any important change can confound us. But why?One big reason is that when faced with a decision, we humans perceive the pain of loss to be about twice as potent as the pleasure of gain. The fancy term for this is loss aversion. It's part of a larger psychological phenomenon known as negativity bias, which… -
Changing Careers: Research Before You Dismiss
8 Jun 2009 | 11:33 amAt some point in our careers, most of us dream about doing something completely different. Those of us who want to do more than dream can quickly feel stymied and frustrated. Many people I talk to who are thinking about making a significant career change feel alone in this pursuit. It seems to them that everyone else is happy enough toiling away at their current job, or have dismissed ideas of change because, "I can't afford it" or "I'm too old" or "What would I do, anyway?" If you notice that you keep imagining yourself doing something else, you owe it to yourself to look at that carefully… -
How to Know Whether Entrepreneurship Is Right for You
27 May 2009 | 1:56 pmThere's a lot to be said for being your own boss. You get to chart your own course, create your own hours, and choose your own employees.However as glorious as it can sound especially in today's job market, entrepreneurship is a big-deal decision that isn't right for everybody. What do you need to mull over to make a decision? If you're thinking about owning your own business, first see how accurately you believe the following statements describe you: I am comfortable owning my own business and not realizing a profit for one to three years, even if I need to work long hours. I feel…
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StellaCommute
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Seven Deadly Sins of Home Office Security
22 Jun 2009 | 4:45 pmSeven Deadly Sins of Home Office Security. Well, a deadly sin is a pretty big deal but this article from ComputerWorld has some good tips that are always important to remember. Physical security seems particularly important to me. You hear so often about breaches happening because someone's laptop gets stolen out of a car or a home office, and suddenly your employer has to mail out a million "Sorry about your data go to free credit report dot com and keep an eye on who's stealing your identity" letters.Don't make them do that. Lock up your dang laptop, okay?Stellacommute...there's no place… -
I Suffer from This Condition
17 Jun 2009 | 9:14 amOnce again, The Onion proves its mettle as the finest news source in the U-S-of-A by nailing my problem. Maybe you have this problem too?Stellacommute...there's no place like home. -
Scheduling Secrets
8 Jun 2009 | 7:21 pmHonestly, I can't remember if I've said this before, but scheduling empty time in your day is absolutely essential to having time to get stuff done. Even if you just mentally block it out, it's important to have time where you do nothing but go through what you need to do and do it.Stella is on-site this week, and the whole point of these trips is to meet meet meet meet. And it's fun. I love seeing people, love getting to know them. But I also need to get work done, and so it's hard to balance. But it's okay, because I'll get caught up next week.But it would be nice to have a little time to… -
Print Less
4 Jun 2009 | 3:33 pmI know what you're thinking: Give me a break, Stella. I already spend 23 hours a day in my house in last year's slippers, and I haven't filled up my gas tank in two months. Yes, you're already doing a lot to save the environment just by virtue of being a shut-in, but you can conserve resources even more by doing one simple thing:turn off your printer.It helps you conserve in a few exciting ways:You're using less electricity because it's not hanging out plugged in and vaguely on waiting for you to send a job to it.You will have to think before you print, and make a conscious decision to roll… -
It's Baaaaack
3 Jun 2009 | 5:07 amYes, that's right. The Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act is back. Yes, the economy is in the crapper, yes we're all lucky to have jobs, but this is important. You should call your congress person and your senator and ask them to help get this thing out of committee or wherever the heck it is right now.See here's the deal: you may be okay with regard to your tax situation, or you may not. How could you know? It varies state by state, and that's uncool. Stella is lucky, because the Land of Enchantment is (in the sage words of the nice accountant I asked about this whole mess) not aggressive about…
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Martial Development
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“American Ninja” Michael Dudikoff Found Alive
26 Jun 2009 | 2:58 pmAmerican Ninja 2: The Confrontation LA JOLLA—Veteran actor Michael Dudikoff was discovered alive in his hotel room this morning, under mysterious circumstances. He was 54 years old. Dudikoff was best known for his amazing work in 1980s action films such as Enter The Ninja, The Black Marble, and American Ninja 4: The Annihilation. Police are not investigating his disappearance from box office charts in recent years. Speculation abounds on which shadowy organization declined to kill Michael Dudikoff. Some fans propose that the Triads, known to operate within in the Asian entertainment… -
The Challenge and Promise of Scientific Qigong Research
23 Jun 2009 | 9:44 pmExcerpted from Professor Lu Zuyin’s “Scientific Qigong Exploration”, a survey of qigong research experiments conducted in China between 1978 and 1992. Scientific research in the last ten years has captured many external qi phenomena and qualitatively recognized certain characteristics of external qi. On the whole, research on external qi is still at a qualitative stage. It is not easy to establish quantitative laws and phenomenological theories thereby moving to a quantitative stage. The difficulty is mainly due to insufficient investigation of external qi and the resulting… -
Chi Gong 101: How to Feel Your Chi Energy
17 Jun 2009 | 10:52 pmA Simple Guide In Plain English Introduction Chi (qi) is an ancient Chinese term, which can be translated as energy. Like energy, the word chi is used in both abstract and concrete terms, and applied to both general concepts and specific phenomena. In other words, chi is ambiguous. (People who use the term often have a specific meaning in mind.) In the broadest sense of the word, chi is generally understood to be pervasive, present in everyone and everything, but it is not uniformly distributed. Chi moves freely around the universe, assuming various forms along the way. Disciplines such as… -
Enter The Dragon: The Musical
17 Jun 2009 | 2:20 pm“Summer Movie Season” is the theme for hip-hop artist Spec Boogie’s ambitious new mixtape project. Every few weeks, he will release a new track, and video, based upon a classic hit movie. This week’s feature is: Enter The Dragon. Hip-hop meets kung fu, again If you like rap, don’t miss his other smoothly edited music videos, for Superfly, Warriors, Edward Scissorhands, Requiem for a Dream, and more. Old-school bonus track… “Let It Out” by Tha Alkaholiks Original text copyright © 2006-2009 Martial Development. Share This -
Jose Aldo’s Crushing Crane Kick
16 Jun 2009 | 3:55 pmAfter Karate expert Lyoto Machida’s recent win in UFC 98, fans immediately started talking about a comeback for traditional martial arts. Prior to Machida’s victory, the couch potato consensus had written off traditional training methods as superstitious and ineffective. How quickly perceptions change. Two short weeks later, Brazilian featherweight Jose Aldo won a truly stunning victory against Cub Swanson in WEC 41. Total match time: 5 seconds. Winning technique: crane kick. Yes, the same technique that “Karate Kid” Daniel LaRusso used to win the fictional All-Valley…
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Avocationist
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How Best-Selling Author Pam Slim Started Her Blog to Balance Her Life and Dreams
25 Jun 2009 | 8:34 amPam Slim has just published Escape from Cubicle Nation based on her hugely popular blog of the same name. Pam’s work focuses on helping corporate employees start their own businesses. [Side note: I highly recommend this book if you are considering making the move] In the first excerpt from our interview, Pam explains how she started the blog and gives insights into how she has successfully balanced the practical parts of her life with her passion for helping budding entrepreneurs. -
How to know when you have outgrown your job: Lessons from a Rock Star (plus a special invitation)
9 Jun 2009 | 3:16 amDo you ever get a feeling that your job has lost its luster? A job that used to motivate you now requires you to get yourself pumped up before you do it? Check out what I learned at a No Doubt concert this weekend - how to know when you have outgrown your work. Watch until the end for an invitation to a series of classes I'm offering (you can also get more information here). -
Find Out What the 20% of People Who are Passionate About Work Know That You Don’t
8 Jun 2009 | 9:19 amPhoto courtesy Joshua Rappeneker Want to do something different, but can't figure out what it is? Or how to do more meaningful work without jeopardizing your lifestyle? Join me for a special tele-class this Wednesday night, June 10th at 5pm ET: Don't wait to test-drive your dreams (How to start now without quitting your job). It's free for my newsletter subscribers. This tele-class is part of a series I'm offering to take you from "I don't know what I want to be when I grow up" to "I would never have been able to envision how rich my life is now." Sign up now because there are a limited… -
The Suprising Secrets of Business Travel (Hint: It Can Be Fun)
28 May 2009 | 6:39 pmBusiness trips suck - we all know that. But did you know that business trips and lunch breaks can be 2 of the best times to find fun? On my first trip to Hong Kong, I learned that they can be great times to try out new interests - the first step towards developing your calling. -
The Myth of the Perfect Job
7 Apr 2009 | 9:54 amI knew a guy (call him 'Tom') who had a detailed "Top 10" list of requirements for any prospective girlfriend. She had to be blonde, athletic, intelligent, Ivy League-educated, successful, from a good family, and more. Tom met a woman once who came close, but when every date was compared to that top 10 ideal, how could any real-life relationship survive? (By the way, he's pushing 40 now and is still single.) I think that Tom had it all backwards. Tom was working too hard on having everything figured out up front, and not enough time getting out there and being open to the spark he would feel…
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The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
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How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself
29 Jun 2009 | 12:05 amThe above video is one of my favorite presentations I’ve given in 2009, an opening keynote at the last San Francisco WordCamp, titled “How to Blog without Killing Yourself”. More than 700 people from 32 countries were in attendance, which made for a wonderful experience. The original title was “Scalable Blogging Behaviors: How to Grow from 1 to 1,000,000 Readers” and the content did not change. In the above presentation, including detailed screenshots, I cover… - Why I blog - How I blog and select best practices - Frequency and tools — best times and… -
THE NEXT BOOK: From Rapid Fat Loss to Strongmen: A Guide to Becoming Superhuman
22 Jun 2009 | 2:34 am(Photo: vramak) It’s finally time to tell you all. My next book will be a hacker’s guide to the human body. The working title is “From Rapid Fat Loss to Strongmen: A Guide to Becoming Superhuman.” It has actually been planned for more than two years. I’ve recorded almost every workout I’ve done since age 15, and my house looks like an ER, with dozens of gadgets and medical devices for capturing data. I’ve had hundreds of blood tests performed and have been doing this since 1996, with costs now totalling well over $100,000. I’ve taken my weight… -
The Practicality of Pessimism: Stoicism as a Productivity System
10 Jun 2009 | 8:07 pmThis is a recent 5-minute presentation I gave at Google I/O Ignite called “The Practicality of Pessimism: Stoicism as a Productivity System.” In it, I discuss the two most effective productivity techniques I’ve found since 2004, both borrowed from Stoicism. I include personal usage examples, as well as several from Seneca and Cato. The audio is quite low, so you’ll need to up the volume. Ponder this: could defining your fears be more important than defining your goals? Suggested and related posts: Fireside Chat at Google with Timothy Ferriss The Secrets of… -
Exclusive First Look: SU.PR – Stumble Upon’s New Traffic Builder
9 Jun 2009 | 7:45 amI’m so excited about SU.PR, it’s hard to contain. For the last few weeks, the brilliant team at StumbleUpon and I have collaborated on the creation of a new product designed to do one thing: get you more traffic in less time. It might just become the hub of your social media empire… Prior to SU.PR (pronounced “super”), I had to use ping.fm for updating Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn at the same time, bit.ly for basic analytics like click-through, scattered tools for viewing retweets, and nothing allowed me to schedule tweets well. It was all a serious pain in the ass. -
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose Discuss Their Top 5 Must-Read Books
1 Jun 2009 | 12:40 pmUp to no (coherent) good once again, The Random Show returns. In episode 3, Kevin Rose and I discuss our top 5 must-read books, how we use them, and who should read them. The 10 books are… The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing Getting Real Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-term World Travel Seneca: Letters from a Stoic Leaving Microsoft to Change the World Envisioning Information The Tipping Point 8 Weeks to Optimum Health Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind The Intelligent Investor Others mentioned: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)…
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Hire-Engineers
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Embedded / low level applications Software Engineer (C++) Salary DOE
1 Jul 2009 | 2:26 pmEmbedded / low level applications Software Engineer (C++) Salary DOE Fort Worth location! The fantastic company developing scientific and software that integrates advanced communication layer software has been expanding at an alarming rate. This is a result of a multitude of on going new projects totaling near 50! Seeking advanced C++ with cross platform (Linux and Windows). Will develop embedded system and software for network communication applications. Higher level applications will focus on device interfacing, remote machine access, TCP/IP, Ethernet type technology. Will debug board… -
Product Marketing Engineer (Analog based products) - North Dallas Suburb
29 Jun 2009 | 2:09 pmProduct Marketing Engineer (Analog based products) - North Dallas Suburb - Alyn, Patrick & Associates, Inc Are you aware that Texas remains one of the best States to consider employment? Consider this: Texas has no State income tax. In 2007, of all new jobs created in the country, app. 50% of those were created in Texas. Dallas / Fort Worth has a tremendous electronics Design community (one of the best in the nation). If you are a Product Marketing professional or a design engineer, please Consider applying with Alyn, Patrick & Associates, Inc. - one of the most knowledgeable… -
Software Quality Manager (CMM, SEI), Fort Worth, TX
3 Jun 2009 | 9:49 amSoftware Quality Manager (CMM, SEI), Fort Worth, TX Bring your combined expertise in software, electrical and mechanical quality processes to this Quality Manager role at an impressive company bringing state-of-the-art automation to an exciting industry. The ideal candidate will have a strong software quality management background with heavy focus in CMM and SEI Processes in a manufacturing environment. Take overall responsibility for the quality of software-driven products combining software, hardware and mechanical systems. Your background in software design, development and testing will be… -
Engineering Manager, Embedded Systems - Fort Worth, Texas
3 Jun 2009 | 9:08 amEngineering Manager, Embedded Systems - Fort Worth, Texas Your engineering leadership skills are needed by this stable yet growing company serving an exciting industry with software-driven products. You will take leadership of the engineering team, overseeing development of systems, hardware and software, so knowledge of real-time embedded systems and products is a must. You will work closely with both internal project management and external contractors to ensure that quality, delivery, and service goals are achieved. Management of assigned resources, schedule oversight, team focus, and… -
Applications Support Engineer (Discreet Semiconductor Products), $60-69K target, North Dallas suburb, TX
27 May 2009 | 11:22 amApplications Support Engineer (Discreet Semiconductor Products), $60-69K target, North Dallas suburb, TX If providing world-class technical support of semiconductor-related products used in consumer applications at an award-winning global company matches your strengths, this Applications Support Engineering role may be just right for you. You will interface with external customers and internal sales, product marketing and engineering teams to provide technical support, customer service and quality assurance in a fast-paced environment. A variety of responsibilities will include phone…
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One Day, One Job
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Amp Idea
2 Jul 2009 | 7:13 amI know just what you’re thinking right now! “I don’t get advertised to enough.” (If you’re really thinking that, why don’t you check out our job search prep course that will teach you how to get a job faster?) Ok, so that’s not really what you’re thinking, but it’s what the guys at Boston based Amp Idea are thinking. They think that online advertising has developed some amazing ideas, while outdoor advertising (and other similar mediums) have lost their effectiveness. They want to bridge that gap through things like Taxi Interactive… -
Topspin
1 Jul 2009 | 7:29 amWe all have at least one friend who “has a band.” He’s the one that sends you a Facebook Event invitation for his “gigs” every other week. He’s also still on MySpace (because it’s awesome for bands, of course). It may just so happen that you friend is actually is really good, but he’s still waiting for his big break. Regardless of your friend’s talent level, there’s a good chance that he’s struggling with marketing his band. (That’s why that big break hasn’t come yet.) Your friend may think that MySpace is advanced… -
STATS
30 Jun 2009 | 7:41 amI love statistics—especially when applied to sports—so it should be no big surprise that some of my favorite blogs include The Wage of Wins Journal, Sabernomics, and FanGraphs. Surprisingly, the statistical knowledge found on the best blogs these days is often far ahead of what you will find in the front offices of many major sports teams. The reason for the recent advancement in statistical sports knowledge of laypeople has a lot to do with how easy the Internet and computers have made it to collect and analyze in-depth data. A big reason that sports data is available is because of… -
MGH, Inc.
29 Jun 2009 | 7:27 amThis is a guest post by Heather R. Huhman. Heather is the media relations manager at a national health care professional association and entry-level careers columnist for Examiner.com. There have been some complaints in the Public Relations industry that agencies are not evolving quickly enough; however, Baltimore’s MGH, Inc. is never a subject of those complaints. While their Web site, and their entire agency, is currently “under construction,” they invite you to explore their “old” site for information—and by old they mean 2008. That’s how quickly they are willing to… -
campusCATALYST
28 Jun 2009 | 7:59 amI’ve mentioned before that I’m on the board of advisors for a startup non-profit called National Coaching Fellows. During my time on the board, I’ve learned how challenging the non-profit world can be. Luckily, NCF has had the support of a “student-driven consulting corps for non-profits” to get through some of its growing pains. That consulting group is Chicago’s campusCATALYST, an organization that “seeks to direct the innovation, ingenuity, and problem solving skills of America’s future leaders towards community development by cultivating a…
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Slim Pickins' Pork
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Duluth and Charcuterie
28 Jun 2009 | 7:49 pmWe’ve managed to once again make the trek across the Midwest and are now firmly ensconced in Northern Minnesota. Sure, the calendar says late June, but summer such as it is can be hard to find here; as it feels closer to spring than summer. Fortunately, a few days ago was a “warm” summer day in Duluth (low 70s), so we took advantage to take a swim in Lake Superior. Although this picture is visual proof that I made it all the way in, I think my brain froze and I have no memory of the event itself (probably why I'm grinning like an idiot):This was the first time I’d ever experienced my… -
Blog Redux: BBQ Pork Tacos
22 Jun 2009 | 11:31 amI'm not the most original guy; I see something bright and shiny on the Internet, and I have to give it a try. Such was the case of Saucisson MAC's recent BBQ pork post for carnitas pibil. The timing of this post couldn't have been better; I'd been a bit bored with the smoker lately and didn't feel like doing the same old pulled pork again.The procedure couldn't be easier; hit the shoulder up with a rub of spices, the most important of which is achiote powder (I found mine in a local Latino grocery store), wrap in banana leaves, and smoke until delicious:I was too covered in pork grease… -
Bones, delicious bones!
15 Jun 2009 | 10:19 amSometimes the simplest ingredients are the most decadent. Marrow is a case in point: roast some bones, spread on good bread (homemade sourdough in this case), top with some fresh herbs and salt, and you've got one of life's simple pleasures:I've never actually made marrow before, but people speak about it with such reverency that I had to try it (and it's basically pure fat, so what's not to like?). Fortunately, Mark Bittman, he of simple cooking, has a great recipe courtesy of Fergus Henderson, one of the original advocates of offal.Unfortunately, I couldn't procure any 3-4 inch long marrow… -
Festival Foods-Gyros!
10 Jun 2009 | 4:54 pmI love going to the many festivals here in central Ohio, from Artsfest (last weekend) to Festival Latino. The main reason, of course, is the food, and one of my favorite walking around eats is the gyro. It's the perfect summer food; savory meat, cool sauce, and a warm pita to prevent you from getting too messy:With those slowly turning spits of meat, I always thought making gyros at home was, to quote O Brother, Where Art Thou, "prit nigh hopeless." Turns out, I was wrong-Alton Brown has the complete recipe, except pita bread, here, and you can get a good pita recipe here.I used a whole lamb… -
Cooking and Life
8 Jun 2009 | 9:59 amSorry for the ambitious title, but with two young kids, I've been giving a lot of thought to the place of cooking in our day-to-day routine. Like almost everyone that cooks, I love it not necessarily for the food, but for the sense of community it can create among love ones. I grew up in a house where sit-down meals where the norm (yup, even breakfast on weekdays), and I want to continue that tradition.The challenge is balancing the time we share over a good meal with the time and effort it takes to actually prepare it. In other words, I've found that cooking has to be organic, something that…
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MeatHenge
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Pepper Rub Country Style Pork Perfection of Love
2 Jul 2009 | 3:33 pmDoh ! I cooked this about a month ago and it's been one of the posts waiting in the wings. Yeah, it's like that and I have more than just a few. I been so tired of the chile powder, paprika and the likes. I've had so much over the years which is why I've been using mostly good kosher salt to marinate my meat in lately. A while back Eric the Knife Guy and his lovely wife Janet gifted me some spice blends from Oregon Spiceman. This particular blend is their Pepper Rub. Black pepper, white pepper, sweet basil, garlic powder and salt. Sounds good and smells even better. I had a good load of fancy… -
Mug Rootbeer BBQ Sauce - a recipe
29 Jun 2009 | 12:51 pmA year ago I received a nice email from a guy who was working for a large ad firm, who was in turn working for a grill manufacturing company. He wanted to know if I was interested in posting about some fancy grills. I took a look and they were propane, even the charcoal versions weren't much to speak of. I passed. Forward to today and the same gentleman emailed me again, wanted to know if I remembered. I did, and had saved his email from last time. This time he's working with Mug Rootbeer, wants to know if I'm interested in a BBQ Sauce recipe. For trying out the recipe, he'll send me a Mug… -
Meathenge to Fatted Calf to the sharing of meat between father & son
25 Jun 2009 | 2:53 pmEditors Note: Yeah, confused? I didn't know how to title this one either. I received this email the other day and was really blown away, I did tear up. We all make jokes, tell "stories" and enjoy the Meaty Lifestyle. But how many of you, and raise your hands, where meat has come in to your life and given you a venue to share the last life & times with a loved one before they pass? I asked for permission to post this email and to post an image. Please read on and dare to keep a dry eye. Hey Biggles, First, I have to say a huge 'Thank You' for telling me about subscribing to Toponia's weekly… -
Sleepy Summer Mornings
23 Jun 2009 | 7:10 amHi Everyone! Wanted to stop by and say hi to everyone, Hi! While I do have a few posts in the wings awaiting some inspiration, we're not up to much here at Meathenge Labs. Cooking for me these days consists of burgers, a red sauce sphaghetti dinner and calling Mountain Mike's Pizza. Sad, yet true. In any case, the boys and I are doing fine, I'm not driving nearly 500 miles a week (until school starts in a few months). Here's Tiny E's feet as he's sleeping, right now. Sleepy Summer Mornings, ain't they grand? xo, Biggles -
Bananas and Bacon - Guaranteed to start conversation
15 Jun 2009 | 12:32 pmeditors note: This image is from the back of the book, it was far cooler. The little book is titled, The New Banana and it hails from 1931. Looks to be an introduction to this new fruit, national news, foreign news, scientific, daily menus for the week & recipes too! Which leads me to the Bananas and Bacon recipe, no really. If'n you're interested in a scanned original from the book, please follow the link below. Bananas with Bacon 6 Bananas 1/4 pound bacon Roll half lengths of peeled bananas in strips of bacon. Secure with toothpick, if necessary. Broil under flame; or bake in oven-proof…
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One Day One Internship
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Amp Idea
2 Jul 2009 | 7:21 amI know just what you’re thinking right now! “I don’t get advertised to enough.” (If you’re really thinking that, why don’t you check out our job search prep course that will teach you how to get an internship faster?) Ok, so that’s not really what you’re thinking, but it’s what the guys at Boston based Amp Idea are thinking. They think that online advertising has developed some amazing ideas, while outdoor advertising (and other similar mediums) have lost their effectiveness. They want to bridge that gap through things like Taxi… -
The Fit Pit
1 Jul 2009 | 7:54 amI was a chubby kid. Even though I enjoyed sports, exercise just wasn’t something that I was interested in. If I had been a part of something like New York City’s The Fit Pit, maybe it wouldn’t have taken me until my Senior year in high school to get into decent shape. The Fit Pit “is an award-winning youth health fitness company which runs ‘Superhero Academy,’ an innovative, incentive-based fitness program for children, utilizing a superhero ranking system.” Personal trainers for kids may sound a little ridiculous, but if we can beat childhood… -
STATS
30 Jun 2009 | 7:47 amI love statistics—especially when applied to sports—so it should be no big surprise that some of my favorite blogs include The Wage of Wins Journal, Sabernomics, and FanGraphs. Surprisingly, the statistical knowledge found on the best blogs these days is often far ahead of what you will find in the front offices of many major sports teams. The reason for the recent advancement in statistical sports knowledge of laypeople has a lot to do with how easy the Internet and computers have made it to collect and analyze in-depth data. A big reason that sports data is available is because of… -
Lesic & Camper Communications
29 Jun 2009 | 7:48 amThis is a guest post by Heather R. Huhman. Heather is the media relations manager at a national health care professional association and entry-level careers columnist for Examiner.com. You don’t have to be in Washington, DC to be part of the political scene. Lesic & Camper Communications is doing just fine with their two locations in Ohio—Columbus and Cleveland. The agency’s specialties are media relations, public affairs and strategic counsel, and its staff has “decades of experience in journalism, public policy, government, political and issues management, and public opinion… -
Dress for Success
14 Jun 2009 | 7:07 amAt some point during your internship search, you’ve probably read at least one article about what to wear to a job interview . If you’ve already had an interview or two, you were probably stressed out about the decision: blue shirt or white shirt? or some other mundane detail like that. For a lot of people, what to wear to an interview is a much bigger issue. That’s where Dress for Success comes in. They are a New York City based non-profit that aims to “promote the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and…
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Cube Rules
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Managing from the corner cubicle
2 Jul 2009 | 1:00 amNote from Scot: While on vacation, I’m having some of my favorite bloggers share their knowledge here on Cube Rules. This article is from Phil Gerbyshak who not only understands Cubicle Warriors, but how to manage and collaborate with them. ————– For my day job, I’m a vice president of information technology, and I’m responsible for managing 10 people who answer questions about software, hardware and every thing else that sits on associate’s desks. Even though I’m a VP, I don’t get a corner office…I get the corner… -
How to answer the weakness interview question
1 Jul 2009 | 1:00 amNote from Scot: While on vacation, I’ve asked some of my favorite business bloggers to share their knowledge here on Cube Rules. This post from Laurie Berenson, a Certified Professional Resume Writer and owner of Sterling Career Concepts, is a great review of the dreaded “What’s your greatest weakness” interview question. ——————— “Name one of your weaknesses” or “What’s your greatest weakness?” is a common interview question that doesn’t need to trip you up. While some recruiters have stopped using it after… -
A Good Cover Letter Can Tip the Scales in Your Favor
30 Jun 2009 | 1:00 amNote from Scot: While on vacation, I’ve asked some of my favorite business bloggers to share their knowledge here on Cube Rules. This post is from Rick Saia, a Certified Professional Resume Writer and a frequent commenter here on the site. ———————- Resumes are essential, but by themselves, they can be somewhat cold and impersonal. Despite its detractors, the cover letter can remove a bit of that impersonal edge and, if done right, give the employer a good reason to spend more time reading your resume, and – just maybe – call you for an… -
How to support your stressed-out manager
29 Jun 2009 | 1:00 amNote from Scot: While on vacation, I’m having some of my favorite business bloggers share their knowledge here on Cube Rules. This post is from Anita Bruzzese, a terrific writer and speaker. ——————– While many employees are losing sleep these days worrying about their jobs, it’s a bit doubtful that they also are losing z’s fretting over how the boss is faring in these tough times. Still, it may be time workers started giving some consideration to what a manager is going through. Because as everyone knows, when a manager is stressed, that… -
Time management: working hours does not equal hours worked
25 Jun 2009 | 1:00 amNote from Scot: While on vacation, I’ve asked some of my favorite business bloggers to share their knowledge with you here on Cube Rules. To start us off is Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, of Cali and Jody and the creators of the Results Only Work Environment. And while Kate and I are on vacation, Cali and Jodi give you an interesting task for next week… —————– Hello, all of you Cubicle Warriors! We’re honored to have been asked by Scot to write for you. We hemmed and hawed about what to write about, and finally landed on something that…