Professional growth doesn’t happen through giant steps or grand leaps. Rather, it is the daily small actions and repeated steps that facilitate growth day by day. As the saying goes, “Most people over-estimate what they can do in one year and under estimate what they can do in five”. Here are a few small steps to
If you spend any time on professional social media you will see the topics of talent acquisition, recruiting, executive search and job search are hot trending topics. There is a lot of conversation about the necessity of using professional recruiters to find talent; there are also posts about the negative sides of engaging with a
Hard Work? Good Intentions? Speed bumps? Pot Holes? Hope? Experience? I have the honor of talking to people all day, every day about their careers. I hear why people are disenchanted with their current job, what they think they would like to do next. I hear about dreams. Dreams fulfilled, dreams lost, broken dreams and
In part one we shared information related to interview etiquette. Today we will talk about the balance of power in the interview process, also known as “two way interviews”. Spoiler alert, there is no such thing as a “two way interview”. I am frequently told by those we represent to a position “interviewing is a
I received an email from a colleague in the U.K. that had this logo that said “we are a living wage employer”. Being naturally curious, I googled this term and discovered that in the U.K., like the United States, there seems to be a large disparity between what some employers pay and the cost of
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 164,000 in April, and the unemployment rate edged down to 3.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in professional and business services, manufacturing, health care, and mining. Read the pdf
More than half of U.S.-based women in tech say their ideas are ignored in meetings until a man repeats them. Are you kidding me? More than half also say they’re left out of professional/social events and are often assigned low-level tasks in their groups. More than a third of women say their appearance has been
It’s well understood that culture can make or break a workplace. Understanding what “culture” means, however, is a whole other matter. As a working concept, culture can’t be easily defined or measured. Merriam-Webster offers six different definitions (and even named its Word of the Year in 2014 after it received the highest number of web
