I have been writing about the hiring process for years and over those many years, I have learned a thing or two about job interviews. Having been a recruiter myself, I am often surprised by the blatant errors in judgment displayed by so many jobseekers once they have an opportunity...

About 20 years ago, if I ever heard that someone was a recruiter, I would have instantly assumed they were trying to fill battalions with enlisted or coerced men to march off to some foreign land to represent their country on fields of battle. I had never heard of "recruitment"...

Letting Go.

Learning to let go is a difficult accomplishment for most. Yep, I'm calling it an accomplishment, because it is one -- if you can do it. For me, it is definitely that. There are many things which present themselves to us along the way that would be better...

A Bleak Outlook

A few years ago, I saw some scary writing on the wall. My job as a corporate recruiter was at great risk. The trickling fall-in of the latest recession and scraping through an uncharmed economy was taking its toll, seemingly one job, one house, one soul at...

No, I am not referencing Steve Jobs, though he was great and powerful. I am actually referring to jobs -- what we do to make money. I got my first paying gig when I was only 12. I took in ironing from my mom's friends. I charged $0.25 a shirt...

The back story
I am a single mother of four. Two of my children are now over 20 years old -- one married and working on her master's and the other working for a small tech company and continuing her progress toward a bachelor's degree. I still have two...

This summer, I bought a new car. This was major feat for me because over three years ago, my home went into foreclosure. I knew it would not be easy to get a loan, but I had no idea it would be such an emotional undertaking.
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We spend so much time striving for more, wanting more. Working hard to get ahead seems like an endless race against the rest of mankind. Kind of like laundry at my house, it is never completely done. In and...

FOR THE JOB SEEKER

Many employers have figured out how to use social media to improve their corporate and employment brand. If this is the case, then it makes perfect sense that this is where potential employees/job seekers can now go and should go to find out more about the...

An Unknown Artist

I sat in the coffee shop trying to concentrate on the book with which I was struggling. My mind kept wandering, so many things to think about but I tried to force myself to concentrate on my book; I wasn't very successful. The sun was shining so...

"Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, stop every motor and halt all activity for an hour some day to give people a chance to ponder for a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living and what...

Submerged in Culture

In 2007, I worked on a retention campaign within a small tech start-up. I loved my job and it was made even better by the fact that I hired most of the people on...

Integrity shouldn't be an option. Unfortunately, it appears to be that way.

Over the last several years, I have heard many stories of individuals who have done wrong by colleagues, peers and/or their clients/customers.

• Clients who have failed to pay fees for services rendered.
• Partners...

We used to call it friendship.

When I was sixteen years old, my family moved from sunny Southern California to a small town in Indiana with only three weeks remaining of my junior year in high school. To say I was scared or nervous would be an understatement. I was...

Take a step back now... Can you see, in full view, the tireless work involved in good management? Many think, now is the time to relax; I doubt that Ray Kroc ever thought that. The minute you let your guard down, a...

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." --Hank Aaron

The crowd roars in the background and stadium lights flood the field. The smell of freshly cut grass...

To Organize: Function Two of Management

Plans are the start of something big -- if you follow through and decide a course of action; commit to the response to those plans. That response will be the next step: Organize. The implementation of plans gives reason to the decided-upon strategy. The...

All great businesses and their accompanying strategies start with a plan. A plan is the blueprint or script, if you will, to assist in achievement of reaching a goal or objective. The plan can be as simple as a calendar with events charted...

There are several different processes of management, but four old-fashioned, but key functions that provide the "technology of management" are identified as: Planning, Organizing, Motivating, and Controlling.

Whether you run your own business, are starting a business, manage a department or just work hard, these four elements are imperative...

"Without continual growth and progress,
such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."

Where is your office? Do you have a traditional work arrangement in a corporate environment or are you on the road more than a broken yellow line? Is your office in a specified corner...