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Give Candidates Better Experience, Not Bill of Rights

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There is nowhere a more emphatic symbol of a corporate policy than the three-ton rock at the entrance to each Stew Leonard’s store in Connecticut and New York. On it is inscribed: “Rule 1: The customer is always right. Rule 2: If the customer is ever wrong, reread rule 1.” This company has been listed in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not as the world’s largest dairy store and chosen by Fortune to be one of… Read More »Give Candidates Better Experience, Not Bill of Rights

The Myth of Being Stress Free At Work

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It is easy, right? The self-help section of any bookstore is filled with shelf after shelf of expert knowledge on how to deal with stress. The topic of stress is found in over 32,000 books on Amazon.com. If this were not such a serious problem in our lives, there could be humor found in the stressful search for stress relief. I will defer to those with more than a few graduate courses in psychology to… Read More »The Myth of Being Stress Free At Work

The Future of Recruiting: Does It Have A Future?

By most people’s definition, all things that have a past and present will have a future. Birth, life and death are understood to be natural occurrences and we assign this human characteristic to other things associated with human behavior. So the thought leaders ask this question about the future of recruiting with an assumption that tomorrow will look much differently than today. Some are predicting that it will evolve into something new and others see… Read More »The Future of Recruiting: Does It Have A Future?

Recruiting Management And Key Stakeholders

Who are stakeholders? And what is this stake they are holding? This one of the words we learn in grade school English as a homonym (or homophone) which is, as our dictionaries define it, “one of a group of words pronounced in the same way but differing in meaning or spelling or both.” This one also happens to be a word in which the same spelling can have multiple meanings, making it also a homograph.… Read More »Recruiting Management And Key Stakeholders

The Job Seeker’s Guide To The Galaxy And Other Places

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There is an often quoted saying that wisdom comes from the mouth of babes. Children don’t have a trained filtering mechanism in place and their wise sayings are sometimes the revelation of truths that grown-ups don’t see or don’t want to see. They also have the beginnings of a mechanism to reorganize the truths into something more understandable to their level of development which may be totally distorted. My son went to a nursery school… Read More »The Job Seeker’s Guide To The Galaxy And Other Places