This week’s inquiry comes from Helen Stefan: Hi Jeff: I really love the column you are doing for TFL. I have found this a particularly helpful post … Read more
Lemonade, Anyone?
The last two years have really proven challenging to any staffing firm, let alone a small, two-office firm specializing in worker bees—the entry-level … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Why CEOs Don’t Get Fired, Florida Worker Shortage, Being a Good Boss
Here’s a question I wish I had asked: Why aren’t more CEOs fired? Regular readers of this blog (and of that other popular blog I used to write over at … Read more
LinkedIn Makes It Official (Finally) and Files to Go Public
LinkedIn did the expected today. It announced it was going public. The privately held company filed a registration statement with the Securities and … Read more
What Discrimination Looks Like in 2011: It’s Older and Unemployed
Anyone who has been in the hiring game, or even just an active member of America’s workforce for more than a few years, knows this in their heart: job … Read more
TELL-TALE SIGNS of Sales Ineptitude (and that its time for more sales training!)
Every now and then I have an encounter with a sales professional that is so off base and incongruent with my dominant buying motivation that the lack of … Read more
Supreme Court Says Government Can Background Check Federal Contractors
Government background checks of federal contract employees are constitutional, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. “Reasonable investigations … Read more
Ding Dong, the Job Boards Are Dead (Again)
If you think you’ve experienced deja vu about the death of job boards, welcome to the club. In a piece in The Wall Street Journal this week, it says … Read more
The Myth of Client and Candidate Control
“Eliminating One of the Most Damaging Business Practices of Our Industry” On April 20, 1999, Cassie Bernall, a 17-year-old student at Columbine … Read more
Yes, Unemployment Will Improve … But Slowly
Maybe mixed news is good news, at least in the long term. On the heels of the US Department of Labor’s latest numbers which showed seasonally … Read more