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Job Fair Rules for Employers
Job fairs aren’t for everyone, and they’re not for every company/industry. But if your company happens to participate in them, I wanted to give you a few quick tips to help avoid disaster. Give a darn about the people who took the time out of their day to come and talk with you about your employer.…
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Asking Questions at Work-Better Questions Equal Better Results
If you’ve never thought about the impact of asking questions at work in a better way, I’m going to help change that today. Consider the following list of questions you’d hear in the average day: Why do we have to go through this change? Why can’t we find good people? When will that guy do…
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Assume the best
Yesterday I had an interesting incident occur that reminded me just how our worldviews can skew our actions. This has a tie to the business world, so hang with me. Once upon a time As is often the case, I was walking out of the grocery store with a ginormous box of diapers (Pampers Baby…
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The Candidate Experience-How Confident are You?
What The Candidate Experience Means to Me I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the candidates for our positions. I do what I can to provide a transparent, high-touch process (click here to listen to me talk more about our hiring process and recruiting philosophy), but sometimes it just gets tough to make sure everyone…
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Grow Young Professional Employees Who Create a Calm Company Culture
As a manager, it\’s important to create an environment in which all of your employees can thrive. You should strive to develop employees that are positive and proactive—from day one. For your young professionals, the most coddled generation in our nation\’s history, it can often be tricky to dance in the uncomfortable and very necessary…
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A Few Updates for the Curious
Sometimes I wish I could be everywhere at once. Alas, that isn’t going to be happening any time soon, but it seems like things are staying at least that busy! Here’s what is on my mind at the moment. SHRM12 in Atlanta-I’m going. Are you? If you’d like to meet in person (warning: I’m much…
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No More Mister Nice Guy
Recently I ran across an article that led with an interesting premise: if you want to be better than the competition, you need to be asking better interview questions. That made me stop and think. In the HR blogging space we are very friendly with each other and often provide advice that is informative and…
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