This post got quite a bit of play on LinkedIn, so I thought it would appropriate to share it with clients and potential clients on my blog: Companies should carefully consider “why” they feel the need to make every employee return to the office five days a week. This is far more about “controlling people” […]
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If you treat your employees as if they are a “cost” or “resource” and not as a human, or don’t care about them except as a potential source of revenue, you hamper your company’s ability to be successful. Treat your employees the way you would treat your most valued client and watch your company
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In an answer – NO! I am definitely a proponent of AI in many areas, including research, but always caution to trust but verify what it gives you. However, it creates disaster for the job seeker, HR, and the Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS). From having numerous resumes and cover letters now looking eerily similar or
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I saw an article today discussing how long you should take to consider a job offer, and wanted to put forth a few thoughts. First, never be pressured on the spot at an interview to take a job, that is a huge warning sign that something is wrong in the organization. If they can’t wait for a
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Well, this should NEVER be in a job ad: “Must adapt and deal comfortably with ambiguity.” However, I have been seeing it quite a bit in recent years. Particularly since COVID. That isn’t an excuse to put such a statement in a job ad. Certainly, this occurs in a workplace occasionally, but ambiguity is defined
According to a 2023 Gallup Poll, “68% of employees believe they are overqualified for their current job”. Remember, just because you’ve become bored with a job doesn’t make you overqualified. Doing the same thing day after day can be boring, but it doesn’t make you ready for the next level, necessarily. So, what can you
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Resume Writing Tip: Be careful utilizing images and graphics on your resume. While they may make your resume look great, they can impact its scan-ability in the Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS). From hiding information that the scanning system needs to see (without you knowing it), to making the file so large the system cannot take
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It was National Employee Appreciation Day last month, but you can’t tell. While individuals are increasingly seeking a better balance in their work, companies are pushing back. Despite the fact things changed permanently after March of 2020, many corporations haven’t recognized this reality. All that wonderful talk about taking care of people has been replaced
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In keeping with the Halloween season, let’s discuss the why’s behind so much ghosting, and a couple of tips to help you weather that storm. After all, when you know it is going to happen, and have some strategies to deal with it, you will be better able to move forward in your search. Some
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Referencing comment to article on cooling of the war for tech talent, and they “why’s” behind it. Here are my observations as to why, and advice to keep it from happening to other companies, tech or otherwise: https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/is-the-tech-war-for-talent-over-4827217/ So many startups were like many large companies prior to the great recession that started in 2006.
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