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Hit on this article about how companies should stop talking about their products and/or services and instead tell their customer’s stories. Brilliant – and also, fairly common sense. Translate this into interviewing. How lovely would it be if the person you were interviewing talked less about themselves and more about how their clients/customers viewed their experiences with them?! Tough to …
Dear Judy, I like you, I really do. Your resume is gorgeous, dare I say you’re perfect on paper in many aspects. You’ve got the keywords that I’m looking for, worked for the right companies, graduated with a fabulous degree and it looks like you’ve kind of progressed through your career, hop by hop. But here’s the thing. You stay …
“School’s out for summer. School’s out forever.” Alice Cooper’s lyrics hit home this month as a fresh crop of new grads enter the world and gasp, “Now what?!!” I have a cousin who just graduated from LSU and is headed to graduate school in the fall. He’s staying in Baton Rouge for the summer and some of the relatives are …
It’s that time of year when college and universities around the world will release onto us the great minds of the 2013 graduate class. This always makes me think of the popular advice – Wear Sunscreen: While this advice might be from 1999 – it still rings true today – but like everything else in the world this can be …
From the Department of the Incredibly Obvious it seems like organizations in financial distress are often unable to attract the talent they need to try and turn things around. Or said differently, when the ship appears to be sinking, it can be pretty hard to get new talent to climb on board. But while we all seem to know this …
how can i get back with my ex girlfriend One of the most read blog posts I've written in the last two years is: How To 'Really' Get An Entry Level Job. It's pretty basic, straightforward advice on how I would go about finding an entry level job, if I was just coming out of college. One piece of advice …
I was talking recently to a head of HR of a manufacturing company in the Midwest about some recruiting challenges they were having. You see, I don't know if you know this or not, but I'm kind of a big deal when it comes to providing solutions for people's recruiting challenges. Anyway – my solution for her was she needed …
Over the course of my HR career I've literally seen thousands of resumes of people at all levels and points in their careers. Bottom line? Most of them suck. That resume template from MS Word you're so proudly sporting? Yeah, I've seen that one li ke 10,000 times. Like using fancy fonts? Sorry dude, it can't hide the fact that …
You know what I learned really early in my career in recruiting? Companies really don”t like to hire folks coming out of the military. Yeah, I just said that. That might be the most politically incorrect thing that a HR Pro can say nowadays! In fact, we hear the exact opposite from company executives, don”t we? In fact if you …
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 like this, and Baby Boomers are like that, and GenXers are something totally different…”, blah, blah, blah. It annoys me when people paint broad strokes over an entire population of people – …
