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Editor’s Note: One of the areas that keeps evolving and changing is the workplace — how we earn a living. Our guest expert, John Mariotti, has been observing and tracking changes in the workplace and what it means. In this guest article he comments on the implications for small business…
Flash Movie: Career Choices
Anna Johnson has sent me a link to another of her fun Flash movies to watch. This one’s called Career Choices. I’m not sure if the point is you should find a career that you are temperamentally suited for, or if the point is not to let yourself get stereotyped. Either way, it’s a…
Job Candidates With Body Art: Hire Or Not?
The US Army is getting more recruits with tattoos. And so are you.
One third of the population 18 to 29 has a tattoo. Your Business Blogger is outside this age range and our five-kid penta-posse has not yet demanded needles with ink. But this is an exploding trend that will affect small business…
Small Business Super Star Hiring Hassle
Microsoft can hire anyone (or anything) it wants. The business giant has one real point measurement for hiring.
IQ
There may be a lesson here for the small business owner.
Your Business Blogger has interviewed, hired and managed (computer) coders, sales reps…and government bureaucrats.
When…
Job Interviews: When To Lie
He that covers his sins shall not prosper. Ancient Jewish Proverb. There seems to be a disturbing trend that all business owners are facing: job candidates who lie.
Mitch, The Window Manager, one of the best business blogs in the business, had a reader in a job interview with a dilemma:
How does a…
The Latest Trend In Hiring Requirements
Blogs are better than classifed ads
Much good advice has been offered on blogging and career management.
Whenever Charmaine or Your Business Blogger have to hire someone, the first question we ask ourselves is,
Who do we know?
So we then tap into our network of contacts and friends and get the…
Hiring? The Best Question To Ask a Job Candidate
What were your high school dreams?
Your Business Blogger is noticing a troubling trend in the hiring process. Lots and lots of personality questionnaires. Psycho-testing. Honesty testing. Handwriting analysis.
But if you want to do well in interviewing job candidates, get Smart.
No, not the secret…
Military Management: The New Trend for Small Business
Some business owners have a desire to run a company like a military unit. The business owner understands, almost instinctively, that there are unique management strategies that military organizations employ to accomplish difficult missions. And perhaps die in the attempt. To sacrifice the last full…
Two Perfect Job Candidates? Here’s How to Choose
Hiring is one of the most time consuming and agonizing responsibilities of the small business owner. We are often confronted with candidates with nearly identical categories of knowledge, skills and abilities.
How does the business owner pick just one? The one right person?
Brad Feld and Your…
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