More than a living

Anyone who talks to me about their current corporate career will likely have heard me utter—likely innumerable times—my quintessential thought about staying in one place too long, “You’re not going to retire from there.”
Truth of the matter is that there are very few, if any, corporations that should be giving away gold watches to long, […]

Sure, sure. You see us carp and complain about how horrible want ads are. Constantly describing the role instead of the problem that needs to be solved.
Well, you know, in all fairness, want ads are only part of the problem.
I mean, want ads suck. But, let’s face it. By and large, resumes suck, too.
And when […]

Apparently, they still haven’t fixed the job description/want ad problem.
Mr. Peabody, could I borrow that thing for a sec?
In light of Guy Kawasaki going off on want ads and 37signals going off on want ads, we’ve gone back in time to pretend we didn’t publish this, this, or this, until now.

I was reading Toby’s post, entitled “Influential HR Grows Talent Management, First and Foremost,” preparing to slap a little bit of artwork on to the top of this article when I stumbled across this passage:
HR is responsible for Human Capital Management, cradle to grave (or hire to separation).
When it dawned on me, that the grave, […]

How do you avoid assholes from the get-go? Jason Fried of 37signals has some advice:
I would never hire someone I didn’t like as a person. I don’t care if he/she is a rockstar designer or programmer or whatever—if I don’t like them as a person they won’t be working here.
You must trust the people you […]

You don’t need me to sit here and prattle on, yet again, about how much of a genius Kathy Sierra is. If you do, I’d be happy to do that. But I won’t until you ask. (Maybe I’m just tittering on about her, this time, because we both just used the marriage metaphor in blog […]