Employers are not willing to admit it, but discrimination happens all the time during the search for a candidate to fill an open position. Most candidates don’t realize that there are clues that they provide every step of the way to employers that can ‘tip’ off prospective employers about personal attributes. Sometimes, employers don’t like… Read more »
Is There A “Good” Way To Lay Someone Off? Employers Should At Least Try, But Most Seemingly Don’t.
In an era of people going ‘postal’ in the workplace as an expression of their anger / frustration or as a result of multitude of personal emotional problems, most companies have adopted fairly rigid layoff procedures as a precaution against such radical behavior. The problem is that these layoff tactics, including the element of surprise then… Read more »
Are You Hiding From Your 10,000-Foot Mountain?
Sometime in August, my husband and I are going to go to Central Oregon with the intention of climbing South Sister, a dormant volcano in the Cascade Mountains which rises up to 10,363 feet / 3,158 meters. The views on top are amazing and can stretch for hundreds of miles, with other snowcapped peaks dotting the horizon. A very worthy… Read more »
13 Reasons You will Never Get a Job
This blog post is reprinted with generous permission from blog author Colin Daymude, Chief Employment Officer at The Job Genius. In the past, Colin has been in charge of recruiting and training teams as large as 100 and has personally or through his team coordinated the recruiting and training of over 50,000 professionals in his career. Yes,… Read more »