This piece is 11 years old, from the Spring of 1999. In those days, the job boards that were about to die were the giants…Monster & CareerBuilder. Conventional wisdom held that no one really needed a gigantic database; that niche and regional job boards would quickly rep[lace the majors. It didn’t happen like that then. [...]

Like lemmings, the vendors in our industry have latched on to the concept of retention as an alternative to solid Labor Supply Management. Like most ill considered fads, it’s just plain stupid as a generality. Sure, workplaces should be places that employees find challenging and like to visit. Certainly, equity (both financial and political) is [...]

The temptation to hide incompetence with buzz words extends from business models to HR Strategies. We watch in wonder as lemmings who want a career in marketing try to talk about “modifying the value proposition”. We think this is something they do to avoid the harder work of identifying potential customers. “Modifying the value proposition” [...]