Category Archives: Hiring

You're hired, you're fired

Posted on December 20, 2007 by Rick Turoczy

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Career, Employment, Firing, Hiring, Jobs | 7 Comments

Resumes: Doing our best to fix part of the problem

Posted on November 5, 2007 by Rick Turoczy

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Career, Hiring, Jobs, Resume, Resumes, WantAds | 14 Comments

Breaking News: Want ads still suck

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Rick Turoczy

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Criticism, Hiring | 1 Comment

Hiring decisions, when mistakes keep on giving and giving and giving

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Rick Turoczy

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Branding, Hiring, HR, Human Resources, Perspective | 3 Comments

Anti-assholes 101

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Rick Turoczy

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 … Continue reading →

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Kathy Sierra's bad marriage metaphor dead on for employees, too

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Rick Turoczy

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 … Continue reading →

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