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A Worthwhile Read for Every Idiot Manager on the Planet
[M]ost American workers don’t realize that for most of the 20th century, the broad consensus among American business leaders was that working people more than 40 hours a week was stupid, wasteful,...
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The! War! For! Talent!
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of posts prognosticating that 2015 is going to be The Year where everything turns around. Employees are in the driver’s seat! Salaries are going up! The economy is in real...
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New Year, Usual Shit
This past Friday I had a request from one of our clients for interview availability for two candidates. Dutifully, I got availability from both for Monday and Tuesday, and of course never heard back...
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More Corporate BS
Well, I’ve been absent for a while, the reason being I’m miserable and not in the mood to write much. My current job sucks, we get near zero off time, and what little we get, I needed to use for...
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A Recruiter.com Article I Commented On
There’s an article here at Recruiter.com that I decided to comment on. Here’s the comment: “‘It’s weird that we haven’t built any tools for team leaders at all,’ Buckingham says. ‘We have none – not...
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Yet Another Example of Incompetence…
So we have a client who came close to a hire, but since they put the date of hire off for two months for some reason, the person found something else to do. They got a bunch of resumes, went through a...
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Here’s the thing…
I’ve noticed something, something people don’t seem to get, and that is that there’s a compounding effect among the factors that make a bad job bad. Put another way, as jobs get worse, they tend to...
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Good LinkedIn Post
Definitely worth reading this, I’ll comment on it later, but I wanted to get it up here when I saw it. Update: Ted makes some good points, but I think he misses the underlying problem: Sales! The...
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Get a Degree?
An interesting post on LinkedIn asked a question: why is there no recruiting degree? The reason is frighteningly simple: there’s no degree to be offered in bullshit this blatant. Let’s go through the...
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More “Recruiting is SALES!” Bullshit
Here again, and predictably on LinkedIn, we have more Recruiting is Sales! nonsense. First off, while the market has shifted a little, the labor participation rate is still absolutely fucking dismal,...
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The Broken Window Fallacy and Sales and Recruiting
The broken window fallacy is simple, yet most people don’t get it. Most news anchors will commit this fallacy whenever there’s a hurricane, and in the aftermath they say something along the lines of,...
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… And Yet More “Recruiting is Sales!” Bullshit
Yet another article, again predictably on LinkedIn, claiming recruiting is sales. And yet another blog poster blaming HR for shitty results. Now, to be fair to the author, Lou Adler, I have found his...
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Another of Ted’s LinkedIn Posts
Another good post by this guy here, I have some comments to offer, with quotes extracted I will comment on, but the gist of the post is that productivity has gone up quite a bit from the 1950s, but...
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H1 B Article
This article is worth a read here. The author is right, and wrong. I’d say, in a free economy, come who may and work or not. The problem is we don’t live in a free economy, we live in a highly...
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