It's a new day in the talent marketplace. Employers who treat their job applicants like valued collaborators win in their competitive spaces, and employers who insist on talking down to talent and addressing them like livestock will get the more-docile-than-talented new hires they deserve.
James M. Citrin | Posted 01.22.2012
Hiring managers are reticent to take a risk on someone with a visible failure because it opens them up to criticism later on if it doesn't work. Betting on a candidate with a failure takes courage.
iMFdirect | Posted 08.01.2011
Nemat Shafik, who took over as IMF Deputy Managing Director in April, says she has been surprised by the vigor of internal policy debate at the IMF. "...
Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011
The U.S. is currently shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs each month. It's not just in the Ozarks that the recruiters are the only ones with jobs around: the economy shed 125,000 jobs in June.
Arn Tellem | Posted 05.25.2011
College prospects will now be under so much time pressure to jump through a narrow hoop before the June 24 draft that the Unsurest as well as the Surest Things are likely to attempt the feat.
AP | By MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 05.25.2011
PHILADELPHIA (AP)-- A suburban Philadelphia woman "desperate to do something" to help suffering Muslims has been charged with using the Internet to re...
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 05.25.2011
When working with recruiters, no fudging your resume or involvement in key projects. The truth will come out eventually and inconsistencies will weaken your candidacy.
Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 05.25.2011
While I can toss out most of The Deep End's antics as hyperbole -- no partner would allow a first year associate to go within 20 feet of a client--the show is 100% correct when it comes to life at a firm for blacks and Latinos.
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 05.25.2011
In this time of restructuring, downsizing and double-digit unemployment, it's more important than ever to be ready when a recruiter calls. Being read...
Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011
Are these young people just talking to one another? Is anyone listening, really listening, to them? Trying to discover what the generation dubbed the "Millennials" cares about?
Liz Ryan | Posted 04.19.2012