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If you read a lot of business coverage, you know this to be true: The last thing we need is yet another list touting the “best” companies. As my PR friend Robin Hardman points out, “Each year you see them — shouting from business journals, websites, magazine covers… “Best Companies to Work For” lists are everywhere: there are local and regional …
Here was the press release intro: Amazon today announced plans to open Amazon HQ2, a second company headquarters in North America. Amazon expects to invest over $5 billion in construction and grow this second headquarters to include as many as 50,000 high-paying jobs. Then mayors and governors lost their ever loving minds. $5B and 50k tech jobs. Sign me up. …
Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon. You might have heard of him, or at least you’ve heard of his company. This year Amazon will do over 100 billion in revenue. Like most publicly traded company CEOs, each year Bezos sends a letter out to stockholders. Unlike most publicly traded CEOs, Bezos’s letter is unlike everyone else’s! For …
The title says it all – sometimes it takes big events to lead to big change. Back in 2015, Amazon came under fire following a shocking piece from the New York Times exposing the company’s toxic cut-throat working environment. If you’re fairly well-read and in the talent game, you saw the article and wondered aloud what it was really like to …
Amazon continues to be (IMHO), America’s most interesting company. From the sheer range of businesses in which they operate to their single-minded focus on dominating their categories and increasing their willingness, (almost at a Google-like level) to experiment with brand new and innovative products and services… Amazon is always fascinating. And this willingness to experiment seems to sometimes extend to …
Say what you will about Amazon and their culture—they’ve got the foundation right and I freaking LOVE the company. Yep, I’m a fan and even if they worked me so hard my eyeballs rotted out of my head from reviewing resumes and my fingers fell off from endless Taleo clicks, I’d trade my time to be there. Why am I …
A little over a year ago, Andy Headworth of Sirona Consulting, asked me if I’d contribute a section to his newest recruiting book, Social Media Recruitment: How to Successfully Integrate Social Media into Recruitment Strategy. I’ve “known” Andy for going on 7 years, he was one of my first Tweeps across the pond and someone I found to be excellent …
When I was a newbie recruiter, my first manager’s idea of development was quizzing me on how many calls I made, phone interviews I conducted, or face-to-face interviews I scheduled. Nothing on hires made, quality of hire, hiring manager satisfaction, etc. He was an “activity manager.” Fun stuff. The big Kahuna manager around FOT, as you probably know, is Kris Dunn. …
