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My conversation with my daughter this morning: Daughter: “Mommy, you are just a little beautiful today.” Me: “Well, I think you are completely beautiful. Why am I just a little?” Daughter: “I don’t like those jeans on you. Or your shirt.” You’ve gotta love the unfiltered honesty of kids. She also enjoys literally pointing out when I have “a big …
Interview blunders. We all have the stories. One of my recent favorites: Guy candidate who couldn’t hold it any longer went #2 in the urinal vs. waiting for a stall—and then left the bathroom like nothing had happened while passing the guy he was interviewing with—but hadn’t met yet. Top that one! Given this post isn’t about bathroom mishaps, let’s …
I had an executive turn down an offer from us quite a while ago. My initial, immature reaction: “Bastard.” I’m kidding, of course. A little. I was angry and hurt. The division leader who teamed up with me for the recruiting effort called me after the rejection and said, “What do you normally do in this situation?” I replied, “I don’t …
If you follow professional sports, you probably know by now that Kobe Bryant returned to the NBA in December, played six games, and has been back out with injuries since then. Bryant hasn’t really made any substantial on-court contributions to his team—the Lakers—since tearing his Achilles tendon last April (while my game is not quite as high-flying/scoring-centric as Kobe’s, this is the injury I …
If you caught a few ads during the Super Bowl on Sunday, you probably noticed Lawrence Fishburne reprising his role as Morpheus from “The Matrix” for a Kia ad. The ad was introducing the K900, Kia’s new luxury sedan. If you’re like me, “Kia” and “luxury” don’t find themselves in the same sentence, which is why this commercial actually rocked …
Have you guys ever seen a top level athlete in high school get recruited to play college sports? I'm not talking about your best friend Mary's son, Billy, who hit .338 his senior at Northern High and is getting a partial scholarship to St. Mary's Western Community College. I'm talking top 100 kids who have offers from USC, Notre Dame, …
Not HR, sweetie. They don’t come from HR. Today’s posting is of the “food for thought” variety, rather than a checklist of ways to up your talent game. I have no clear answers. What I do know from observing outside and inside is that there are certain career paths in our companies that can lead to the corner office. Ours …
Nike is pulling yet another athlete’s ad campaign as news surfaced about Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius. It seems Oscar is under scrutiny after being charged for murdering his girlfriend, who died from gunshot wounds. If the circumstances weren’t bad enough, Nike’s ad featuring the double- amputee had the tag-line “I am a bullet in the chamber”. Some believe Nike might be …
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 a Real HR Pro Needs to Recruit.” Cute. Jaded. We’d like to you register, but first let’s manage expectations related to what you’re going to get. If you’ve already advanced your recruiting …
FOT01 himself, Kris Dunn, and I have been talking about the future of recruiting. So much time is spent on job boards, LinkedIn, mobile, social, referrals, networks, etc., but Kris and I are simple folk – we need idiot-proof HR types of things. One thing we both agree on is whomever figures out recruiting on Facebook – is THE winner. …
