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Job Seekers: How Is a Job Search like Space Travel?

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The subject of comparing the quest to find employment to a space voyage is rich with visual images of blasting off into the unknown, overcoming difficult situations, and encountering mission ending dangers. This moves the journey through uncharted waters or hacking through a forest to a new dimension. Maybe that could be the topic for another time, but for now the focus is on a simpler aspect of the trip. Of all the unknowns that… Read More »Job Seekers: How Is a Job Search like Space Travel?

The Best of Make HR Happen – From the Archives v.4

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  This is a re-posting of five previous articles from Make HR Happen.               About Feng Shui and Your Underwear Drawer – For those who don’t know, Feng Sui is an ancient Chinese art and science that deals with the balance of energies in any given space. Good feng shui contributes to good health. In modern times the practice that has evolved has less to do with orienting the life… Read More »The Best of Make HR Happen – From the Archives v.4

Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – November 18 thru November 24, 2012

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In case you missed this week’s articles, here is a summary:                 Recruiting Redux – This is a re-posting of five previous articles from Make HR Happen.             To Degree, or Not To Degree. That Is The Question. – One of the hottest topics of today seems to be whether or not a college degree is really necessary. The current heightened activity in this dialog…… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – November 18 thru November 24, 2012

Job Seekers and the Sisyphean Slippery Slope

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A Greek myth as related by me… in a nutshell – Historically, Sisyphus was the founder and King of Corinth. According to Greek mythology, he was a very bad dude (not a literal translation). Those were tough times, but even in that day he was seen as a thug,murdering travelers passing through his city just on a whim. Nothing was sacred to him and even the gods knew him as a cunning trickster. He even… Read More »Job Seekers and the Sisyphean Slippery Slope

All Thanks Are Not Equal

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I am thankful that we have a day dedicated to thanks. We all know people that are not so inclined to be thankful by nature and on this day they are reminded to spout the usual sappy Hallmark thank-you platitudes to anyone who does not have diabetes or a weak stomach. Maybe I was wrong by thinking that it is way too early for TV Scrooge Marathons running back-to-back until Christmas because there is something… Read More »All Thanks Are Not Equal