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Hiring Trends for 2019
Happy 2019 (soon)! As we get ready for the New Year, we thought we’d explore the next 12 months to see how they may differ from 2018 from a hiring standpoint. How will AI affect recruiting and staffing? How will candidate interviewing evolve? How will data affect...
Navigating the Office Holiday Gift Giving Obstacle Course
It’s December! Bring on the office gift exchange! As we move into the 2018 gift-giving season, many of us may wonder: Do I give my boss a gift? Do I have to purchase holiday wrapping paper from my colleague’s son’s Scout fundraiser? Can I opt out of the office gift...
Making the Most of the Holiday Season
The holiday season is here! Times of good cheer, holiday parties (at the office and friends’ homes), gift purchasing and giving/receiving….and a GREAT time to finally get some work done! Work in December often slows down as you and your colleagues think ahead to the...
Negotiating Salary? Don’t Say This!
So you’re in the salary/pay rate part of the hiring process. (Congrats on getting to this point, by the way!) And you and your soon-to-be-employer both want pretty much the same thing, but with a BIG variant: each of you wants to come to a number both are happy with...
Help Your Team Members Stay Excited About Work
As a supervisor, a big part of your job is to ensure that your team members stay excited about work….but without working so hard and so fast that they become burnt out: Your newly hired college grad is so excited about her first job in a career she loves that she’s...
The Wisdom of Creating Your Own Brain Trust
CEOs have them. So do entrepreneurs. What they have is a small group of people – possibly five or so – that they go to when they need objective advice and strategy. This group is known as a brain trust and you should have one for your career. A brain trust is...
When Following Your Passion is a Bad Idea
We hear over and over to “follow our passion” when it comes to careers. But this may not be a good idea. After all, our skills and natural abilities must align with our passion in order to be successful within it. For example, if we have no sense of rhythm but still...
Having Difficult Conversations….with Your Boss
It’s natural – so work hierarchy goes – for a supervisor to call in a subordinate and have that conversation: You’re performance has been lacking lately. You come in to work late too often. You’ve missed two project deadlines in the last month. And so on. But...
Embracing the Up, Backwards and Sideways Career
Content No one’s career moves straight up. Most successful people see their share of failure and even simple treading water (no movement up or down). Just a few examples of people who failed on their way up: Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper because he “lacked...