E-business is in the news. Not a week goes by without a few old economy companies announcing their plans to form an online marketplace. The Big Three … Read more

If you want to retain your best workers it takes hard work! Gone are the days when employees would stay at a firm and make it a career. It’s no … Read more

For the longest time, it was assumed that only members of the technical trades who use a computer in their daily routine would also use the Internet to … Read more

Parallel universes–universes that mirror our own but add some reflection and distortion–help us look at ourselves in a different way. One of … Read more

Pick up any newspaper, any professional HR magazine, any newsletter or business journal “of record” from any segment of industry–even the … Read more

Why don’t managers pay more attention to recruiting? Of all the questions I get from HR professionals, this is by far the most common. Managers often … Read more

Summer is here, and students everywhere are looking for a summer job. Many will flip hamburgers or work as camp counselors, when they could be working for … Read more

An applicant takes a battery of tests. Three trained professionals examine the scores. One professional exclaims, “We have found our candidate! Hire … Read more

Assumptions: Employed “top performers” are different from other candidates and must be treated that way. Read more

A friend of mine is a Senior Java Developer in the midst of a job search. He recently posted his resume on a major job board confidentially and allowed me … Read more