Ringmaster Help
I don’t normally share information about my personal life. But… these are unusual times. See, here’s the thing. I know how to work from home. I’ve been doing it successfully…
Coronavirus and its impact on your hiring
As if running a company wasn’t already challenging enough. As if there wasn't an astronomically high demand for technical talent, salary ranges that are a bit out of whack, and…
Habits: Less is More
Remember when you started your last new job and on the first day, you vowed to keep a clean email box, use a daily tracking doc and walk every day…
Falling Iguanas
Chicken Little warned that the sky is falling. My grandmother often proclaims that it’s raining cats and dogs. The Weather Girls were thrilled that it was raining men. And last…
The Elusive Candidate
In the world of high tech recruiting, there seems to be a new recruiting trick, app or tool almost weekly. Something that promises to make recruiting the critical in-demand talent…
Autonomy or Amazon?
Do you find yourself wondering how you got here? By “here,” I mean December. The end of 2019 is just a few weeks away…and, like me, you may have just started remembering…
Black Friday
A little Black Friday history. The earliest known use of the term “Black Friday” occurs in the journal Factory Management and Maintenance in 1951 referring to the practice of workers…
Ninjas, Squirrels and Warriors
Guru, Visionary, Thinker, Herder, Overlord and my personal favorite… Goddess. What do all of these have in common? These are portions of real job titles that people actually use. And…
Back to School: Back to Basics
It’s September. At my house, that means we’ve been adjusting to back to school routines. It didn’t take me more than a few days to realize that we had gotten…
Revamp the Review
At some point or another in your professional career, you have probably suffered through a terrible performance review. Whether it was the manager or the company’s required process, the whole…