February 2012

What Do You Do When Your Job is a “Just a Job?”

Let’s face it; sometimes it’s about the glory, or god – sometimes, though, it’s just about the money. My lunch with a friend I’ll call “Julie” last week is one such case. Smart and hard working, she jumped from a burning ship to a role she thought would be a great way to spend the [...]

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How Do You Keep Life From Passing You By?

It’s a common refrain; one that even ended up as a question for the digerati at Quora. Just how do you keep life, like a river, from passing you by? There are signals everywhere that you must do more to keep your head above water; even more if you want to “pull ahead.” A recent Fortune [...]

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[Life Back West] February 2012 – “Back to the Future”

Our 20 week-old Terrier-mix pup Porter’s maiden trip to Dolores Park brought back memories of the countless mornings and evenings spent with our much beloved, now-deceased, mutt Roady playing chase, kong fetch, and rolling on his back (Roady, not me) playing “sharky.” It may turn out that you can go back, but will you find [...]

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The Trouble with Recruiters

There is trouble in recruiter-land. Talk to any in-house recruiter and they know it. Talk to any job candidate and they suspect it. Heck, as someone who has run small, medium, and large size talent acquisition operations I even know it. You probably do too. So what’s going on? Back in the pre-online application days, [...]

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I Just Had a Job Interview: Am I “Owed” Feedback?

  No. I’d still ask though. In 30 years of interviewing thousands of candidates from CEOs to resident advisors to scientists and engineers, I can count on one hand the number of people who have followed up to ask for feedback. Half of those few were asking to ask, not asking to learn, and lacked any [...]

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