Author: Whitney

For those of you out there who are parents, you know that sometimes the best conversations can be had with your kiddos. Those conversations that make you smile and realize…

  I recently addressed hiring managers, relating back to them a lesson I learned in business school. The main premise of that lesson was that there are 3 variables to…

    In business school, I learned that there are 3 variables to consider when developing a product: ·         Speed ·         Price ·         Quality Common wisdom says that you can…

  In a perfect world, you would spend the last of your pre-retirement years working for a company you helped to build. You would be respected for both your talents…

    We often talk about how expensive turnover can be for companies. It has been estimated that the cost of replacing a single employee can run up to 150…

In our current unmanned environment, there is a mix of government downsizing, regulatory challenges, and venture capital indecisiveness that is making our job market more unpredictable than many of us…

      According to the job-matching service, TheLadders, most hiring managers spend an average of 6 seconds looking at a resume before making a decision. That’s 6 seconds to…

      You’ve found the perfect candidate, extended the offer and made your hire – congratulations! Now the real work can begin! That’s right – finding and hiring the…

    The cornerstone of every good sports team is a strong ‘D’ – for defense. But when it comes to climbing the career ladder, the best defense often comes…

    We have all had our share of really amazing, and truly terrible, managers. Which means we all know, first hand, that the quality of our work in the…