Thoughts on people, teams, organizations, communities, effectiveness and success
It’s the end of the year, and common wisdom says that people have packed up shop and that it’s a lousy week for job hunting.
Maybe.
But as John Greathouse notes on his blog, “Conventional wisdom isn’t.”
The next two weeks will be a time when people’s schedules – if they’re not in company shutdown mode – will be unpacked, thoughts will be directed to things apart from work, and folks will be relaxed.… Read the rest
The email from the prospective applicant family asked my thoughts regarding my son’s grade school.
It could have just as easily been about a place to work or somebody referencing an employee.
It brought to mind a simple question.
When do you shift from “highly recommend” to a more nuanced “recommend with reservations?”
Just as the most qualified candidate may not be the best candidate for a job (“He had lots of great skills and experiences.… Read the rest
Yes. No. Maybe?
You can tell when the economy’s improved because there’s an uptick of interviews. More experienced managers revisit what they’ve done before that’s worked well when hiring and novice supervisors surface this season’s new crop of oddball, silly questions.
“Can I be asked if I’m a gamer?” will likely be one of the tamer examples.
Candidates invariably want to know what can be asked.… Read the rest
Let’s face it; sometimes it’s about the glory, or god – sometimes, though, it’s just about the money.
My lunch with a friend I’ll call “Julie” last week is one such case. Smart and hard working, she jumped from a burning ship to a role she thought would be a great way to spend the next ten years or so of her corporate career.… Read the rest
There is trouble in recruiter-land.
Talk to any in-house recruiter and they know it. Talk to any job candidate and they suspect it.
Heck, as someone who has run small, medium, and large size talent acquisition operations I even know it.
You probably do too.
So what’s going on?
Back in the pre-online application days, circa 1996, internal recruiters working for employers customarily carried (preface: at least the good employers who knew to balance workload with quality) 10-15 job requisitions – openings they were trying to fill – at any one time.… Read the rest
Turns out just when I thought I knew many of the tricks of the trade in the world of executive search consultants (also known as headhunters), one more tip crossed my radar.
While meeting this week about a very interesting corporate global role with a San Francisco firm (more on the opportunity in an upcoming post), I got to also shoot the quick breeze (time is, in this business, money if you’ve got a full slate of searches) with a couple of senior consultants about a headhunter’s life.… Read the rest