Optimize Transition Time (And Stop Being Late)
At 6 pm, my wife Eleanor was looking tense. "We are so late!" she said. After a great day of skiing in the Catskills, we were driving back to New York City, for a dinner party that was called for 7 pm. "What do you mean?" I responded, "The party doesn't start for an hour; we've got plenty of time." "Peter." She didn't hide her annoyance
The Big W
In the movie “It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world” a bunch of people are trying to find a fortune buried under a “big W.” The movie ends badly for just about everyone, with no one getting the money — which had been stolen to begin with. The parallels between that movie and the current jobs crisis are getting to be uncomfortably close. We may be heading for own version of the big W — a double-dip recession. That is, a brief recovery followed by another downturn. The reasons are simple.
Leveraging Your Current Talent Acquisition System As a Candidate Relationship Management Tool
Alex Tellez of HRchitect joined us this week to discuss how your current talent acquisition system can be effectively used as a candidate relationship management tool. Watch it here!
Be An Entrepreneur….Or Just Think Like One
As a career coach, one of my core philosophies is that we all must learn to think like entrepreneurs when it comes to managing our careers. That doesn’t mean all of my clients are running their own businesses — many are very happy and successful in Corporate America or working for others. However, they all know that it’s important to run their careers like they would run a business
The Financial Impact of Not Hiring the Least-best
The financial gain of hiring A-level talent is probably 10-100 times the person’s compensation. The financial cost of hiring a walking lawsuit is probably 10-100 times their compensation. Assuming the duds and the stars represent 10% of your total hires, it’s what you do with the other 90% that really matters. To get a sense of the enormous financial impact of shifting people from the bottom half into the top half, first categorize the 90% into three big buckets — the Best, the Not Quite Best, and the Least-best. Based on these definitions they should be of equal size: The best, or upper-third
How Leaders Should Think Critically
If you want to succeed in 21st Century business you need to become a critical thinker. Roger Martin of the Rotman School of Management figured this out a decade ago and as dean, has been working to transform his school's business curriculum with greater emphasis on critical thinking skills. As Lane Wallace explained in the New York Times , what Martin and many others are seeking to do is approach learning and problem solving from a multicultural platform that borrows from academia, business, the arts and even history
Guests Invited to Hear of Million Job Board Plan
A group of recruitment and HR leaders and professionals has been invited to a meeting in Indianapolis to discuss the Direct Employers plan to build tens of thousands, maybe even a million , of new job boards using the .jobs domain. Although the program has been underway since October, the meeting later this month is described as an informational session. The invitation that was emailed last week says the intent is to answer questions that have come up. In an email Q & A, Direct Employers Executive Director Bill Warren says the Jan. 28th meeting will show some of the sites, describe the analytics that are built into the job board platform, and answer questions.
The Moment Social Media Became Serious Business
It happened last year, around the first of July. In my experience, the switch was just about that abrupt
