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What If Corporate Talent Worked the Same as Athletic or Performance Talent… Is It Time to Consider It?
If you are a job seeker relying on recruiters to bring you top opportunities, you’re making a common mistake. Here are my thoughts on how corporate talent management could benefit from operating more like sports and entertainment talent management.
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Why is an Entrepreneurial Mindset a Hot Quality in Talent Today?
What does it means when a company seeks candidates with “entrepreneurial talent” or promotes an “entrepreneurial culture?”
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Taking On Fixing the Broken System of Hiring and Careering
So much money has been thrown into HR tech, and none of it has fixed what’s broken. Will you help me take on fixing the broken system of hiring and careering?
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Old School Hiring Practices Facing Scrutiny and Backlash in a Job Seeker’s Market
Here are 10 hiring trends that are shifting as companies become more aware of the need to be attractive to top talent in a job seeker’s market.
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Will HR AI Help or Hurt Your Career?
Considering that I have no time machine, time travel abilities or accurate predictive talents, I can’t be sure what future tech will offer hiring and careering. I am discouraged by the solutions being funded, sold, and used at the present moment. Like, how are job boards still thriving in terms of revenue when most job […]
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The Secret to Influencing Corporate Change Revealed
Many of my clients over the past ten years have either developed thought leaders for their organization, leveraged thought leaders, or have been thought leaders themselves. It seems like common sense that if change in an organization is going to be adopted, it needs to happen from the top down, but my clients have […]
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Bias is Human, Yet Harmful
In my recruiting days I had a Vice President who advised repeatedly, “Refute your bias.” Obviously there are biases that could get us in legal trouble, but she was more so referring to the more subtle biases that can make us dismiss or favor certain candidates. This advice was not in contradiction to using […]
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Look at a Person’s Light, Not their Lampshade
I read this quote from Gerald G. Jampolsky and immediately had to add it to my library of inspiration. I was pondering it for so long. The most obvious reason that it appealed to me is because of my own company’s motto, “Unveil Your Brilliance.” This might sound too crazy to be true, but […]
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Who would you rather hire: the undependable one or the incompetent one?
Here’s some food for thought: If faced with a choice between an undependable and an incompetent employee, who would you rather hire? Let’s be clear, no one wants to willingly hire an undependable or incompetent employee. These types of workers can be toxic to employee moral and productivity. Like a nuclear wasteland, you ideally want […]
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Top 5 things I’ve learned from my clients
You can probably imagine how many secrets a résumé writer and career coach can learn while they are working intimately with professionals at various levels. While, I do learn quite a bit of confidential information about companies, employees, I’m not inclined to share that. Consider, however, how much I get to learn about corporate success […]