Appreciating Your Interviewee

Bottom-Line Up Front: Most managers don’t prepare well for their interviewees… That’s why most managers suck at it make mediocre hiring decisions.
You’re a busy professional. You have a lot on your plate, your team is working overtime, and that ugly deadline is fast-approaching.
Finally, the recruiter calls you with an interviewee. They send over the [...]

4 Factors Creating Utah Workforce Funk

There’s no question something interesting is happening with Utah’s professional/technical workforce right now, and I think there are no less than four competing factors at play any business-owner should be paying very close attention to:

Real and Wage Inflation
Intense Competition for Talent
Corporate cost-cutting
High Energy/Commute Costs

The hardest part to pin-down is that the economic indicators show a [...]

Four-Day Workweek Gaining US Popularity?

Photo by Yandle. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.
The Green Autoblog reports that the US workforce may be switching to a four-work-day week in response to higher gas prices and pressure to be smarter about requiring commutes. They point to this reuters article explaining how the four-day week is becoming a benefit in otherwise cash-strapped [...]

Developing a Network of Passive Seekers

I saw this plate the other day…
A few days ago, I wrote about how hard it is for good, employed job seekers to search for new work while retaining anonymity.
But what if a candidate is not really “looking”, but also wouldn’t pass up the right opportunity if it, well, fell in their lap…?
Sometimes the difference [...]

Anonymity Challenge for Passive Seekers

Today, I listened to Peter Clayton’s Total Picture Radio interview with Jim McGovern of ItzBig.  In the interview, he addressed something in a way–I am embarassed to admit–I never fully grasped before:
The Anonymity Problem for Job Seekers
The simple fact of the matter is, the Recruiting Industry has long been too sympathetic to the employer or [...]

Law of Attraction

Betty Mann reposted the following ad she found from The Long Tail blog post “For those of you who didn’t get Rock Band this Christmas” which requires linking both to TheLastMinute and AdGoodness.
It’s a pretty funny ad, but you instantly… I mean INSTANTLY get what it’s saying… while you’re laughing about it.

We (the radio station) [...]

Tiffany Fallon Was Fired Because She’s Millenial

The Donald made a big mistake last night firing Tiffany Fallon and not Omarosa (links to video), but I don’t blame him. Everybody’s doing it.
[NOTE: I really have no idea if Tiffany Fallon, the first Celebrity Apprentice contestant to be fired (last night) by The Donald officially fits in the age category of "Millenials" or [...]

Why Startups Need Recruiters

Occasionally, I will get a note from a startup or other early-stage company in response to my inquiry about recruiting for them that will say, in essence:
“Currently, we’re not using external recruiters, but as we get more established, it’s something we might look into…”
Which is secret code for:
“No.”
Which is secret code for either:

We don’t [...]

Re: Gen Y — ‘The Kids Are Alright’

Thanks to Shannon Seery Gude for twittering about a great read on Gen Y (aka “Millenials” or “iGen”) being really just the same as all other generations.
Stephen Lynch writing at the NY Post got fed up with everyone complaining about the entitlement and know-it-all-ness of the globe’s next generation of leaders, movers and shakers, and [...]

What Must I Change?

This is an intentionally OPEN question, and I am seeking brutally-honest feedback.
I am reading Ram Charan’s Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don’t, and I admit it’s got me thinking.
 … really thinking.
Just getting into it now, but I am deeply curious about exactly what’s going on out there in [...]