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Stretch Your Resume, Not the Truth

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Answering the age old question about tailoring a resume to the job sounds good in theory until you try to do it. Obviously, hiring managers are looking for the right person for the job based on a variety of criteria and these change from company to company. Rather than be faced with an infinite number of varieties of job-matching resumes, most people will resort to the one-size-fits-all version. This is probably a pendulum swing toward… Read More »Stretch Your Resume, Not the Truth

All Recruiting is Social

I’ve never really appreciated the writing style that starts with a dictionary definition of a term or a speaker who starts by saying, “According to Webster…“ and then states the obvious. I usually resist the temptation to use the dictionary as a reference for anything other than to confirm that my stupid spell-checker was programmed by an illiterate high school dropout. Exceptions to this rule happen only when there is a thought so puzzling in… Read More »All Recruiting is Social

Working in HR Does Not Make You a Leader

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Human Resources as a profession has come a long way from the days that carved out a “personnel” function to do the grunt work for managers that were too often insensitive to the people needs of a company. In a mad search for improved productivity, business leaders and academics arrived at similar conclusions that workers are not slaves to their masters’ every whim, but are indeed a valuable “resource” along with other components of success.… Read More »Working in HR Does Not Make You a Leader

Taming the Time-Suck – RSS Readers and More

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We have come a long way. If you begged me for it, I would still not go into detail about my knowledge of the old Usenet News Groups and the text-based non-graphical ways to read them. It is too painful. Does anyone still remember that certain groups could be used to post job ads or to source for candidates? It is interesting to know that today’s technology has moved light-years ahead of its beginning, but… Read More »Taming the Time-Suck – RSS Readers and More

The Weekender: Another Job Seeker Special Edition – Archives v.2

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            Corporate Compensation Guide for the Job Seeker – A popular topic of discussion among job seekers is how to negotiate salary when the day comes that an offer is forthcoming. It is also a popular topic on websites, blog posts, Twitter chats and around Starbucks…just about anywhere that is a forum for such a conversation. Family and friends will help with advice along with the professionals, but the result is… Read More »The Weekender: Another Job Seeker Special Edition – Archives v.2