Archive for the ‘Work’ Category

What is the key to job hunting success? Hint: It’s NOT social media.

April 27th, 2011 1 Comment

I have spent the last five months learning my way through the Human Resources Human Capital Management (HR HCM) SaaS software space. The HR space is not a completely foreign market to me because I have been a valuable member of the workforce since I was 15 years old, I have searched for and secured [...]

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Knock, knock. Who’s there?

July 12th, 2010 1 Comment

There are two aspects of human nature that are always fascinating to me. The first is that people, generally speaking, rarely take immediate action when they have a positive customer experience. The second is that people, again generally speaking, rarely like to say bad things to someone’s face. Combine those two aspects of human nature [...]

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They want to hire you AND your best friend.

March 5th, 2010 7 Comments

A recent Tweet string with @wileyccoyote inspired this post. It went something like this…

I am not currently in the job market looking for a position, but I was as recently as January 2010. I also have many (more than I can count on one hand) friends and family members in the job market. And, many [...]

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Job hunt not going well? Maybe it’s the reflection in the mirror.

January 28th, 2010 No Comments

Not your physical reflection. The less tangible harder-to-control reflection. The emotional one.
It is a very difficult job market and you must be prepared for:
1.) Organizations that have been bootstrapping their workload and are starting to get burnt out. And although they WANT to hire, they are often times waiting on company performance and looser budgets [...]

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What is the one item you need in your 2010 marketing/brand budget?

December 6th, 2009 3 Comments

What is the one item you need in your 2010 marketing/brand budget?
I’ll give you some hints.

Apple has used them for many, many years.
They come in varying shapes, colors and sizes.
They are typically affixed to things.

Have you figured it out yet?
Did you guess notebook bumper stickers?
That’s right. Notebook bumper stickers. The rainbow Apple logo was designed [...]

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