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The Greatest Internship on Earth

Oct 24, 2009 | Comments

Are you thinking about your 2010 career goals yet? I am. They're established and documented and I'm ready to roll to create the best internship program on earth to enhance the way talent meets opportunity. No more running errands, desk in the broom closet, emptying garbage cans for credits... real honest to goodness pre-career experiential learning. …

Ex-Offender Vick = Eagles = Whatever

Aug 14, 2009 | Comments

Ex-offender does his time, gets out of jail and gets hired to go back to work. He is no longer a burden to society. I'm glad about that no matter how horrific the crime. The paparazzi is all over it. What did they expect, that Michael Vick would go to work at the local mini-mart as a cashier?…

DSL™ — The New Professional Credential

Aug 08, 2009 | Comments

Oh yeah, it's an alphabet world out there in employmentville. They have certifications and licenses and initials to go with them for everything it seems. Human Resources, Project Management, Physicians, Attorneys, everyone who studied something seems to have a set after their name. There's a new kid in town, DSL is the new professional credential.…

The World is Full of Ballerinas

Jul 25, 2009 | Comments

It's true, life is a stage. But if every little girl that dreamed of being a ballerina really became one, Recruiters would have a difficult time filling all those other really necessary positions. We dream as children and then we're brought down from the clouds by the reality of the teenage years that most likely we are not going to the academy of fine arts, we are going to school for B.S. .. oops I forgot the article "a". I meant go to school for a B.S. Don't be upset with me Mrs. Cronauer, that was a joke.…

50 is the New 30

Jul 18, 2009 | Comments

New terms like recareering and 2nd life passions are creeping into employment lingo. Recently, someone confided in me that he would like to return to work for someone else but he's 50 and who's going to hire him? This is all befuddling to my sexy 28 year old mind but I'm going to take a shot at it.…

So, Why are there 2.6 Million Jobs Available in the US?

Jul 11, 2009 | Comments

A great friend of mine for­warded me the new Busi­ness Week blog post by Peter Coy. I’m grate­ful because he left some things unsaid. I agree it would be super cool to be a Wine & Cheese Som­me­lier or Art Auc­tion­eer on a cruise ship but I had one of those “the cheese smells in Den­mark” moments think­ing…

The Art of Baking

Jul 10, 2009 | Comments

My col­league across the pond, Bill Boor­man, thought it curi­ous that I was hav­ing a dif­fi­cult time not mak­ing food analo­gies in my blog post com­ments today and told me he wanted to bake me a vir­tual cake. Thank you Bill for being my first guest blog­ger ♥ Now here’s Bill! I don’t know if any­one has…

It’s All About the People — Really?

Jul 03, 2009 | Comments

Being a mem­ber of the very spe­cial cult of HR leaves you incul­cated with the phi­los­o­phy that peo­ple stay in their jobs because of work­place rela­tion­ships, specif­i­cally the one you have with your imme­di­ate super­vi­sor, and com­pen­sa­tion plays sec­ond fid­dle. I sus­pect this comes from the Per­son­nel Board God who whis­pers divine inspi­ra­tional kum­baya in the CEO’s ear. The…

The Dysfunctional Village

Jun 27, 2009 | Comments

They say it takes a vil­lage to raise a child. It makes sense. After all, under usual cir­cum­stances chil­dren are not raised in iso­la­tion and the peo­ple of their com­mu­nity influ­ence them and help to mold their expe­ri­ence and future.  Many com­mu­ni­ties, includ­ing the one I live in, work hard to improve in the rank­ings of…

Workplace en Vogue

Jun 21, 2009 | Comments

Last week I attended an Advi­sory Com­mit­tee meet­ing of a pro­gram that helps tran­si­tion high school stu­dents to col­lege. It’s a great pro­gram with excel­lent focus and results. The 14 mem­bers in atten­dance were over­whelm­ingly Baby Boomers and Gen­er­a­tion Jones, many with dis­tin­guished careers in the pub­lic sec­tor and edu­ca­tion. Two down from me sat…