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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?

When is Enough Enough?

In college I was extremely fortunate to have friends… brothers in both a spiritual and fraternal meaning of the word… who had a unique way of educating each other on reality vs. fiction in life. It was a tough-love type of message that could only be communicated by people who were close enough to get the message when outsiders might have been offended. What was that message? When one of us would get a little… Read More »When is Enough Enough?

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

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

Music Resources Is Human Resources

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My life has always been musical in some way or another. I successfully completed my development in utero without benefit of the current trend of playing classical music to the unborn, but somehow there was some sort of cosmic influence that compelled me to bang on pots and pans and sing from an early age. Neither of my parents were musicians, so if my interests and talents came from them it was a recessive gene.… Read More »Music Resources Is Human Resources