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What is a Baller?

If you hang around the FOT water cooler enough you’re bound to run into a few sports terms now and then.  Baller is one of those.  Originally used to reference… Get the Rest

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GenY’s Succession Plan – Fire the Old Farts

For those who read my stuff regularly, you know I'm not a real fan of all the generational talk that goes on in our space - "GenY's are

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Jobseekers…Do your research!

I’m not sure where you live, but in my metro area there is a hum, a hum of jobseekers.  It’s nice to have all these people, who are

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Are Your Candidates & New Hires *This* Excited?

Have I told you how excited I am these days? Ask me about how things are going as the new kid on the block over at Marriott International... and

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WEBINAR: Give FOT 60 Minutes, We’ll Give You A Clue On How to Recruit On Facebook

That's right - we've got a FOT Webinar coming up on February 2nd.  We call it "Social Recruiting MacGyver Style! No Money, a Paperclip and Facebook – all

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One Bad Apple (Inc.) Can Spoil The Whole Damn Bunch

A pal of mine, Greg Lee, Sr. Marketing & Membership Director for the Chapel Hill YMCA forwarded me an interesting article about former Apple Store “Genius”, Chad Ramey.  Since

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Feeling Positive About HR…

Sitting down to write this post I have to say I'm feeling uncharacteristically positive.  Maybe it's the time of year or the leftover haze from too much holiday

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Why You Should Hire Failed Business Owners

What do you do when you see a résumé from a person who ran a business that failed? Not an easy question for most—the failed business owner re-entering

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It’s not personal. It’s just business. Except for when it’s personal…

Repeat after me HR folks, "TERMINATING EMPLOYEES IS PERSONAL." I hate it when you guys think otherwise.  If someone no longer works for your company, it has personally affected

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Justifying Non-Certification…

I have many irrational fears. Is that a tornado or a train passing by that I hear? Did I forget to unplug the iron? Am I pregnant again?  *this fear may