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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

Why Job Descriptions Fail

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In one of those “Other duties as assigned” responsibilities at the bottom of my job description, I found myself heading up a program to build a course of instruction on job evaluation for plant engineers. My company, a large manufacturing corporation, used a modified point-factor system of job evaluation for manufacturing jobs that was not only complex in nature but sensitive because its adoption came about through a negotiated union buy-in. Having been brought to… Read More »Why Job Descriptions Fail

Shredding Day

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For my European and Aussie friends who are following me, this is not about a new strange American holiday when we all eat tumbleweed cereal. Shredding day is when I go through the pile of unopened mail which has accumulated and assumed to be junk. Yesterday was that day. Those selected from the pile that don’t make it past the first visual inspection get fed unopened to R2D2, as I lovingly call my office shredder,… Read More »Shredding Day

The Death of Print Media

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Several years ago I joked with a friend who was the city desk editor of a newspaper that I cancelled my subscription when the parakeet died…I no longer needed paper to use as a cage liner.  A good natured jab, but I could tell that I touched a nerve. Later when I was contracted to recruit for an expansion to a digital media group, I was bombarded with applications from candidates seeking to escape from… Read More »The Death of Print Media

How to Sculpt a Job Posting

Someone made a comment on a Twitter chat session that recruiters are terrible resume writers. I tend to agree. It is ironic that people who are buried daily in resumes get stuck in writing their own and often need coaching to get it right. It isn’t because they are not expert in analyzing every detail to match up skills with job specifications. On the contrary it is exactly because of that reason: they are so… Read More »How to Sculpt a Job Posting