Hiring Revolution is is dead on about slow-poke clients taking for-freaking-EVER to make a decision about a candidate. I don’t know why my clients think they can get away with this and still get the best talent. A year ago, there were plenty of high-quality tech professionals positively falling off trees and you […]

Ragan asks another version of what I wondered early this week: Why can’t people be nice to recruiters?
Yeah, I know, Google is a great place to work and it’s very prestigious. But times change, people change, and the job market changes. Is it really that hard to imagine a time when you […]

Here’s another hint, jobseekers… You’re not going to get very far in your job search if you can’t be available to interview.
I received an email today from a guy who told me that he had recently switched jobs, hoping that it was going to be a step up for him, only to find […]

Joel made me laugh really hard today.
Heh.

Because I was on the road, I missed these when they first posted- the Washington Post has a blog called “On Balance” that I read pretty regularly- it’s work-life balance issues for mothers. I don’t tend to post a lot about that topic due to my complete lack of experience with it- but as […]

Okay, I REALLY should not have to say this, people. Seriously. But since someone apparently doesn’t know:
“Hi i was told to send you my resume”
is NOT an acceptable cover letter. Clearly it was your email client that capitalized the H in “Hi,” because there was no punctuation or capitalization in the rest […]

I got a call from a friend today who has been involved in a protracted job search. He received an offer from his first-choice company today, but the salary was a little bit on the low side and he wanted to see if he could get them to raise it. He was concerned […]

Look, guys, we know. We know that we interview candidates we then aren’t able to find work for. We know that it costs a lot of time to meet with recruiter after recruiter, only to not find work through them. We get it. Believe it or not, it frustrates us too.
But […]

Jack Sparrow at Jack Stack’s

Originally uploaded by tjbax.

I’m on a 12 day road trip through the Midwest this week, hence the light posting. Last night, it was BBQ in Kansas City, and the acquisition of this South Park-style Jack Sparrow doll from a McDonald’s in Colorado.
It’s […]

I’ve been reading a lot of complaining lately about how employers will Google potential (and sometimes current!) employees to check them out before making decisions about them. The horror! The intrusion! The disrespect of privacy!
First of all, I can’t believe that anyone who has been using the internet for longer than 10 […]