Tag: ask a manager
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A Former Manager’s (Surprising) Thoughts on HR
One of the sites I follow regularly is Ask a Manager, where Alison Green shares her thoughts and wisdom on management, job hunting, and the workplace. With a wildly popular site like hers, she gets all kinds of questions from readers about different situations. I wanted to take the opportunity to get her thoughts on…
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The Real Reason People Hate HR
First, read this from the Ask a Manager blog: HR won’t let us hold people accountable for performance I just read your column about accountability and got aggravated because one of my long-standing frustrations as a manager at the large, government affiliated nonprofit where I work has been a lack of commitment to accountability. In my department,…
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Does HR Really Care?
This snippet appeared in a post on the Ask a Manager blog a few months back. Thought it was a good topic to jump start a post as well as a great reminder from Alison on the dual roles of HR. Sometimes when I read an article advising a reader to go to their HR department for…
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Hiring manager secrets to getting a job…
It seems like just yesterday that I reached out to Alison Green, author of the amazing Ask a Manager career advice blog, to see if she would be interested in writing an eBook to help job seekers. Today, that dream is a reality! What it touches on how to stop sabotaging your job search how…
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How to job interview (well)
I have been working alongside Alison Green on her new project for job seekers, and today she is giving away a free guide on how job seekers can do a job interview well. The guide has some great tips in there that I’ve never even considered, and I’ve already told her it will be going…
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Job seeker frustrations: It’s us, HR
I’ve been watching the results come in from a survey that Alison Green is working on, and I’m kind of ashamed to see the final result. What are job seekers frustrated about? The biggie (49%!) is lack of communication. The second most common (11%) is having standards that are unreasonably exact, which keeps candidates and…
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A difficult mentoring question
Okay, people, I have a short post today. Why? Because I’m stumped. Recently I read this mentoring post by Alison at Ask a Manager. An excerpt is below. Do we seek out those with star potential because they’ll benefit the most from our help — or is it possible that it’s actually less about that…