Why you need to Use LinkedIn job ads
There must be something quite jarring about the President of a staffing company promoting LinkedIn job ads. I won’t get too far into self-congratulation mode because all of our clients fully recognize how selfless we are here. Nobel Peace Prize material in fact. Every HR professional on the planet has made the mistake of placing […]
The Power of Excellence is Influence
“Join Us – we’re average” Thankfully not my client. A fellow headhunter had a conversation with a client where they basically said that they loved a candidate but thought he might be too good for them. This got me thinking about how many hundreds of headlines I could write for one of their job ads. […]
How bad customer service actually drives competition
I went on vacation last week. It was lovely. Thanks for asking. My wife and I escaped without children to beautiful, sunny and hot Mexico. A couple of things got me thinking about how some companies are their own worst enemies. Uber is on the verge of launching in Playa Del Carmen, the taxi drivers […]
The Top 10 Tips for Passive Job Hunting on LinkedIn
I’ve had a number of conversations with people lately about how they can best be seen on LinkedIn but not be seen to be looking for a career move. The reasons for this are countless but topping the list are a desire to keep their search confidential or to dip a toe as it were […]
Jiffylube – Ambition redefined
You have to wonder sometimes, I spend way too much time reading articles on LinkedIn about career growth, personal brand, drive to succeed and so on. Now that we’re in the dog days of summer, our teenagers have landed themselves jobs. Mr Back-from-University proudly told me he dialed the phone 200 times the other day. […]
A LinkedIn Tribute to The Bard
It’s been four hundred years since Shakespeare’s sad demise My, it’s surprising how quickly time flies In honour of the passing of the Bard I thought a written tribute to him wouldn’t be so hard After all, I’ve written a few LinkedIn essays That probably couldn’t compete with any of his plays But it must […]
The demise of LinkedIn. Sorry, it’s my fault.
I love LinkedIn. So much so that I gave them a great big cheque so that I could be one of a few hundred thousand of their closest friends who gets to play with all kinds of tools. I spend a great deal of my life networking on LinkedIn and reading up on what various […]
We don’t talk anymore
With the news that Coca Cola has ditched voicemail at its corporate headquarters at a massive saving of $100,000 but dramatically increased productivity in doing so, I wonder if Alexander Graham Bell is becoming increasingly redundant. Actually, I think vocal cords are on the way out. My teenagers are, like, not, like, ummmmm, sorta like, […]
ESL lessons – a lesson in avoiding under employment
Being in Canada, the immigration of, initially, 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada to start their lives as Syrian Canadians, has been front and center in the media. For my family, it’s been front and center in our house as we have had a widowed mother of 5 kids staying with us in our house since […]
Why I spanked a Walmart Manager
Well now, that got your attention. Actually it was an assistant manager and the spanking was verbal. It was a classic case of bad management and bad customer service rolled up into one. Walmart is the constant and ongoing butt (pun intended) of my jokes about how not to do that customer service thing. Yesterday […]
