I'll never forget the day that our favorite IT guy (ever) came to me, and told me, the vendor we were working with, was trying to recruit him. I think he wanted me to beg him to stay. I didn't, but in hind-sight, maybe I should have. I asked him what they were offering. I told him I really wanted …
Unless you've been living under a rock (or if you have no interest in sparkly vampires… which seems unlikely), you know that Hollywood couple, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, are on the rocks. Rumors (and photos) have it that Stewart was cozying up with her Snow White and the Huntsmen movie director, Rupert Sanders. Okay, so how does this bit …
We’ve all been there. You see that ex-employee out on the town, you try to avoid the person at all costs because you can’t really remember why they don’t work for you anymore, just that they don’t work for you anymore. For some reason. Dang it! Why doesn’t this person work for me anymore?! The ex-employee makes eye contact, you …
Because I am totally obsessed with the #2012LondonOlympics, and because I find them oddly like The Hunger Games (only with less drunken Haymitch’s and fewer fights to the death), and because I find myself relating everything to the Olympians, today we’re going to relate the Olympics to HR. After all, good HR people are pretty much like well-trained Olympic Athletes. Okay… we’re …
Bravo, Yahoo! Seriously, I applaud your company! *standing ovations all around* When I heard about Yahoo’s new CEO (Marissa Mayer) being six months pregnant, and only being 37-years-old, I just knew – this woman must be simply amazing. Not only is she a girl, but she gets picked to be CEO with a maternity leave scheduled in her near future. Women everywhere can …
I love geeks. I married a huge one. Meet Shaun Soleau (a board gamer with a passion for all things Game of Thrones): Shaun wasn’t a sports playing frat boy in college, and he’s not had many girlfriends. But those things don’t matter to me. Actually, those things ended up being more attractive to me when we were dating. I …
I didn’t like Twitter when I first joined. It’s hard to sum up anything I want to say in 140 characters or less, and it didn’t feel personal like Facebook (where I actually knew all of my Friends). But, I stuck with it, and I tweeted things, and somehow, I created a little following. The next thing I knew, I …
Vogue has done something amazing for women. They’ve decided to become a leader in the fashion world, banning models who “appear to have an eating disorder.” And they have asked designers to stop sending “unrealistically small sample sizes of their clothing, which limits the range of women who can be photographed in their clothes.” Bravo, Vogue! I salute you! As a …
Recruiting is selling. There’s no way around that. You sell the company, you sell yourself and you sell the pay and benefits. I struggled with this at first because I was trying too hard. I was too pushy. I was overbearing and I thought that’s what people wanted. Just like when you car shop, people in the job market don’t …
There’s nothing I love more than a good intern, and I’m about to lose mine as soon as she finds a job. Meet Betsy the Intern: Betsy the Intern is graduating in May. I’m having a nervous breakdown. Betsy the Intern has worked by my side for four years, and I’ve done my best to expose her to all things …
