C.M. Russell over at Secrets of the Job Hunt notes that a CareerBuilder study shows some major differences between Generation Y, Generation X and Baby Boom employees. One of those major differences, of course, is the way each generation prefers to communicate. The youngest generation of the three, Generation Y, prefers communicating via text message, […]

On Friday, I had a meeting about affiliating with a real estate brokerage that was kind of like a job interview. Well, kind of like it in that there were two of us sitting across from one another at a conference table and we were discussing me working for their company. But it wasn’t quite […]

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The answer is no. You should have had to address that question in writing at some point prior to your interview and you should have answered it honestly at that point. That is to say, you should say yes, but you should certainly save your explanation (and it better be a good one) for the […]

Or, is it wrong for rich people to have jobs when there are so many unemployed people that could benefit from the work?
It’s a social dilemma that I heard posed the other day on the radio. It wasn’t a real topic of conversation, just a comment made in passing as a joke (I think), but […]

Many employers have their hiring systems worked out fairly well, carefully screening every applicant and narrowing their search to the best few candidates. But when it comes time to actually make the job offer, sometimes some of the simple things get overlooked and even good employers let their preferred candidate steal some of the leverage […]

Robert Scoble, one the leading tech bloggers, has a post today about Google Hiring Funniness and how they seem to be making the same kind of low-level mistakes that many firms make when trying to identify, screen, and ultimately lure talented people into working for them. While Google is always going to be held to […]

I’ve posted a few times here about video resumes and how valid they may or may not be as personal branding and recruiting tools in the years to come. I happened upon a really funny take on video resumes from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In it, Stewart asks his video resume advocate, “So […]

In the May issue of Fast Company, three blogs are recognized by the magazine for offering unique and relevant views on the workplace, recruiting, and company management. If you’re looking for an escape from the sometimes-self-absorbed recruitosphere or just a fresh take on work issues at large, you could do much worse than these three […]

Job seekers who are searching for work through temp agencies and staffing firms are sometimes unaware of the leverage that they possess during the salary negotiation phase of the hiring process. Unlike direct employers, temp agencies and staffing firms have built in a mark-up or margin between what their client companies are paying them and […]