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Browse thoughtful views and opinions about staffing and business topics from our perspective.
How to Top-Grade Your Workforce by Partnering with a Recruiting Partner
As a hiring manager, you have a variety of responsibilities. In addition to bringing aboard top talent, you have to manage your existing team and projects, provide input for strategic planning, and handle issues as they come up. This leaves little time to stay current...
You’re the Boss: What it Means to be Right
“I asked my boss, Jillian, if we could set up a meeting for feedback on a project I was finishing up and her response was, “Just grab me anytime I’m around the office and we can talk.” I did see her at the office, of course. But it was never the right time. She was...
How to Keep Your Company Information Confidential with Remote Employees
With employees working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic, keeping confidential company information secure is more critical than ever. Staff may decide to forward documents to their personal email accounts to print them from a home office printer. Or, they...
The Rules of Brainstorming: Beyond the Basics
What kind of title is that? If brainstorming is all about informality and spontaneity, how can it even have rules? I’m a firm believer that work is always better if you’re prepared – even something that’s intended to jolt people out of their usual ways of thinking....
Success
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” –Albert Einstein. A lot of us set out on our career paths with a pretty strong idea of what it would mean to be successful. Maybe you’d make a lot of money, own your own company, change...
The “Oddball” Question
Interviewers pose a lot questions. It’s their job, after all. There are a lot you’ve already thought about; your strengths and weaknesses, how you handle challenging team members, why you’re a good fit for the company. Then there are the ones that are designed to...
Your Interns: Making their Experience Worthwhile
Recently I wrote about how interns can make their summer experiences meaningful. As many of us manage interns these days, it’s also important to know how to do that in a way that makes the internship worthwhile for your intern, you, and your company. Before hiring...
Why You Should Always Interview a Top Player, Even If You’re Not Hiring
As a top employer with an exceptional IT team, you are likely to have highly qualified professionals wanting to work for you. In many cases, you will not have any openings when a skilled job seeker expresses interest in talking with you about employment opportunities....
Challenging Yourself at Work
Everyone wants work to be engaging and stimulating. One of the primary ways we derive meaning from our work lives is through complexity: being able to master new skills and improve on skills we already have. While too much complexity can seem overwhelming, too little...