July 08, 2009

My boss made me do it

My boss made me do it...

June 02, 2009

Worlds most Craziest and Dangerious job

Worlds most Craziest and Dangerious job.

May 19, 2009

HR Decisions on Who gets Laid off

This came from: unemploymentality.com


May 11, 2009

Microsoft's Resume template with "Zap" and "Pow" Graphics

Microsoft Office offers this resume template that most recruiters would probably prefer job seekers don't use.

View or download the template here


May 04, 2009

Kid Fakes Job Interview -- Consultant Interviews

This video puts consultants through the ringer in interviews.


The was from from the Career Realism blog post, which I found from an @Animal retweet.


April 30, 2009

Singapore's Surprising HR Techniques

April 22, 2009

Terrorist at Recruiting booth of Homeland Security

Wearing a Terrorist t-shirt to the recruiting booth of Homeland Security, probably isn't a great idea.


March 18, 2009

How to Tweet Your Way Out of a Job

This came from Hutch Carpenter at the I'm not actually a geek blog.

Temp

January 18, 2009

Steve Jobs Top Quotes -- about Hiring & Firing

4 of the 10 Top quotes from Steve Jobs are about hiring and firing.


#9. On Hiring

Recruiting is hard. It’s just finding the needles in the haystack. You can’t know enough in a one-hour interview.

So, in the end, it’s ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they’re challenged? I ask everybody that: ‘Why are you here?’ The answers themselves are not what you’re looking for. It’s the meta-data.

#8. On Firing

We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place — the last thing we were going to do is lay them off.

#7. On a CEO succession Plan

I mean, some people say, ‘Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.’ And, you know, I think it wouldn’t be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple.

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that’s what I try to do.

#4. On Evangelism

When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself.

They’ll want to do what’s best for Apple, not what’s best for them, what’s best for Steve, or anybody else. (this actually reiterates my oft-repeated mantra of “ubiquitous evangelism” in companies)

-Bryan

November 05, 2008

Job Seeker can't Spell

It is too bad when job seekers can't spell.

Source: Fail Blog

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