Category: Recruiting & Hiring

The Corporate Kiss-Off, or What I Learned After Getting Jerked Around About a Job

YOU FIND ALL SORTS of interesting things when you go through old email. I’ve been doing that recently as I try to get rid of the many messages I’ve saved over the years. Why I saved so many escapes me now, but the silver lining is this — I’m finding some interesting conversations that are

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A Problem That Never Seem to End: Jobs That Get Posted That Never Get Filled

HERE’S A WELL KNOWN hiring practice that is as stupid and shortsighted today as it was when I first encountered it nearly 30 years ago. It popped up — again — in a BBC story this past week titled The “ghost jobs” employers never fill. As the BBC described it: “Job boards like LinkedIn and

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