When one of your top people resigns, your reptile brain goes into overdrive. Your cheeks flush, your mind swirls with emotions – anger, surprise, disappointment, maybe even embarrassment – and questions, always the questions. There are lots of ways for what comes next to go badly. But consider the possibility that a resignation is an opportunity.
Job Hunter Week: Unemployment and the In Box You know someone who is unemployed. Chances are it's someone who is a close friend or family member. Maybe it's you. This week we're focusing on finding the next job. The official unemployment rate for March 2011 was 8.8% and Gallup, who regularly polls 30K people, puts [...]
Passion is a choice. If you’re wandering around trying to figure out how to find your real true passion, take a break. Sit down. Your passion is not out in the world, it’s somewhere inside of you. Look all you want. When you are finally ready to feel the fires of passion burning in your heart, follow these simple guidelines.
Fewer than seven percent of the workforce is ever contacted by a recruiter. In reality, the odds are way worse than that for most people. Read this post and then decide what you’re going to do about it.
Nicknamed the ‘Rogue Recruiter’ by the Wall Street Journal, David Perry is the author/coauthor of four books including Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0 and has written on leadership, executive recruiting and job search, for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Chicago Sun Times, Globe & Mail and other firms. A well known name in executive [...]
Unemployment and the In Box: HRExaminer’s Job Hunter Week 9817
You know someone who is unemployed. Chances are it’s someone who is a close friend or family member. Maybe it’s you. This week we’re focusing on finding the next job. The official unemployment rate for March 2011 was 8.8% and Gallup, who regularly polls 30K people, puts jobless rates higher at 9.5% unemployed and 19.6% underemployed.
Top 25 Online Influencers in Recruiting v3.0 "…The people who are influential in social media are influential among themselves. That's not that different from other trend setting demographics. The trendsetters are always trendier amongst themselves than they are with the public at large. That's why they are trendsetters." – John Sumser Read Now » Training—Why [...]
Top 25 Online Influencers in Recruiting v3.0 Social media creates an echo chamber. The walls reverberate with repeated memes that have a short acoustic half-life. Like Warhol’s vision of celebrity, social media personas burn bright and then burn out. There’s an intensity and focus required to sustain a social media presence. It is particularly hard [...]
Dr. Dewett returns as a member of the HRExaminer Editorial Advisory Board. Dr. Dewett is a leadership expert and professor at Wright State University, author, speaker, trainer, consultant, and Harley nut. Full Bio… Training—Why Do We Waste So Much Money? by Todd Dewett I often argue with executives when they demand to see an ROI for [...]
This new form of referral, divorced from all of its social intimacy, is the crap that many social media recruiting tools are peddling. Since Andresson-Horrowitz founded Top Prospect, there has been a rush of lemmings racing towards the nirvana of socia media generated referrals. For all of the supposed innovation in that segment, there sure is a lot of chase the bunny going on.
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