Thought For The Day: We are in this position as the result of the unintended consequences of some very good intentions. Hcareers Launches Exclusive Partnership With CorVirtusAnother job board/assessment technology arrangement. Assessment is voodoo and doesn’t really work very well without a deep investigation of the actual culture of the company. The market is grasping […]
In this article (Why Networking is Overrated), Marty Nemko advises job hunters to focus on creating a winning “application” rather than networking for a gig. “If you don’t have a great network and dislike schmoozing, you’ll land a job faster if you devote most of your job search time to writing top-of-the-pile applications for well-suited […]
This short article gives a great example of a powerful job ad.
I’ve now received 15 referrals to a “premier talent website” called Blue Chip Expert. The idea is a multi-level-marketing spin on referrals. The operation appears to pander to consultants, Executive search people and hiring managers. Each of the notes I got inferred that I somehow knew the sender. One of the frustrating things about the […]
The Generational Power Shift In The Industry (and In the Workplace) The day to day leadership of our industry (and most industries for that matter) rests in the hands of people in their forties. The greybeards look, well, a little old. Changes through merger, acquisition, failure and astonishing growth are the way that the new […]
The number of opportunities for direct communication with focused pools of talent (specialized job boards) grows at exponential rates. It’s reasonable to predict continued and consistent growth in this area. The ultimate number of job boards around the planet is likely to be in the hundreds of thousands.
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