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Tom Bolt

The Candidate Experience – Part 1: Sourcing and the Thrill of the Chase

In case you missed the first installment in this series (No, Part 1 is NOT the first installment) then you need to understand the logic of presenting the candidate experience in this manner. Using my Star Wars damaged brain I started the story with the final episode in The Candidate Experience – Part 3: Transition to Employee where we looked at the stakeholder involvement and influence during the final stages of hiring a new employee.… Read More »The Candidate Experience – Part 1: Sourcing and the Thrill of the Chase

The Candidate Experience – Part 3: Transition to Employee

No, you didn’t miss the two preceding parts of this series. They will come later. It appears that most of the discussion whirling around us is about improving the candidate experience during the recruiting and interviewing phase. I contend that Part 2 is important, but there is also a before and after picture that needs to be considered as well. The experience is not over after someone commits to accepting an offer of employment. In… Read More »The Candidate Experience – Part 3: Transition to Employee

You Can’t Handle the Truth!

How many times a day do you hear someone refer to “the real world” when they are trying to get someone to see an opposing point of view? Of course, everybody’s “real world” is different, so the new-speak translation of this line is really more like “you should really think more like me.” My world is usually a pleasant place to live, but I’ve been looking for this real world according to others and sometimes… Read More »You Can’t Handle the Truth!

Job Search Must Include Invention, Innovation and Improvisation

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As seen on TV, a useful gadget to ripen bananas and keep them from bruising by contact with any other objects works by suspending the bunch in the air. If you believe the hype, setting a bunch of bananas on a flat surface or in a fruit bowl is the worst thing you could do. This sky-hook device supposedly provides a more natural position, although if you look up articles on banana growing you will… Read More »Job Search Must Include Invention, Innovation and Improvisation

The SOPA-Like Mentality

I feel like I am crossing some sort of cyber picket line by even thinking about posting something about the SOPA protest happening with major players in the online community today. It is uncommon for me to directly comment on political matters because I am basically an advocate of freedom and usually scoff at the polarizing rhetoric of the right and the left. I don’t blog about politics, religion or morality even though I have… Read More »The SOPA-Like Mentality