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Posts Tagged ‘hire’

Job Ads and Candi ‘dates’

Jun 11, 2011 | 10

My phone rings and the Recruiter/HR voice on the other end and I exchange cus­tom­ary pleas­antries. The weather. The week­end is around the cor­ner. So and so moved on to another company. Then like clock­work the ques­tion is posed… Do you know any­one for this job? The can­di­dates I’m screen­ing aren’t cut­ting it. I ask to…

Who’s Gonna Hire Me?

Nov 07, 2009 | 5

I sat around a conference room table with a local job club as a guest speaker. They wanted a pep talk, to ask questions and get "real" answers. Mostly, they wanted to know what they were doing wrong, what they could do better and why they couldn't get a job. I rolled my sleeves up.…