Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
IT ALWAYS SEEMED too good to be true. Back in 2019, I questioned a relatively new employment practice that a lot of companies were pushing at the time — unlimited paid time off, better known as PTO. I didn’t think much of it back then, and the debate hasn’t changed much since I wrote about
FOR ALL THE HULLABALOO we keep hearing about Artificial Intelligence and all the advancements that will flow from it, there’s another school of thought to keep in mind. You may be hearing it more these days, and it’s this: Perhaps the AI hype was a little overblown. Case in point: A timely story from Computerworld
YOU DON’T REALLY KNOW what a four-day work week is like until you actually work one. I know how it is because I found myself working one (more on that shortly) back near the beginning of my career. And you quickly learn this: once you work a four-day work week, you NEVER want to go
I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TAUGHT that when it comes to writing, less is more. As the BBC points out, it’s an idea that goes back at least 2,500 years, but I originally heard it from my first professional editor on my first professional job. There’s even a Netflix series about it, although the title of that
I LIKE LAS VEGAS, probably because I have been visiting Sin City since I was a boy. It helps when you live in SoCal and it’s only a four hour drive away. For the last 20 plus years, my trips to southern Nevada were scheduled around conferences held there because I edited and managed a
EVER WONDER ABOUT the impact the last few years have had on the younger generations? Well, here’s new research with some intriguing insights. Deloitte’s 2023 Gen Z and Millennial Survey explores how the disruptive events of the last three years have shaped respondents’ lives and views. As the COVID-19 pandemic recedes (despite attempts to bring it back),
IF THERE IS A SINGLE piece of advice that’s critically important for every recruiter and hiring manager, it’s this: Always remember what it’s like to be on the other side of the table. Everyone who recruits or hires should have to step outside the job and actually take a turn as a job candidate sometime.
LEAVE IT TO THE GREAT Adam Karpiak to have a very inventive take on the state of the recruiting and hiring today. Don’t know Adam Karpiak? He’s a recruiter with more than a half million followers on LinkedIn, where he’s well known for his humor and common-sense advice. He says this about his work —
I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW OFTEN I’ve heard that “people don’t leave because of pay, they leave because of their boss.” Now, as we continue to slowly recover from the pandemic and lockdown, we’re finding out that people leave jobs and take new ones for all sorts of reasons. But what seems to be most important to people today is what has ALWAYS been most important
Editor’s Note: I’m occasionally republishing some classic Skeptical Guy posts. This one is from January 2019 . WHO SAYS THERE’S no such thing as “fake” news? I’m reminded of this whenever I read about how the “ghosting” trend (people skipping job interviews, failing to show up when they get hired, or bailing from a new job
