All Entries in the "Human Resources" Category

Receive A Job Counter-Offer? Don’t Take It

“Pitting your employer against another in bidding war for you is often career suicide”
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Google’s 8-Point Plan to Help Managers Improve – NYTimes.com

For much of its 13-year history, particularly the early years, Google has taken a pretty simple approach to management: Leave people alone. Let the engineers do their stuff. If they become stuck, they’ll ask their bosses, whose deep technical expertise propelled them into management in the first place.
But Mr. Bock’s group found that technical expertise [...]

Talent Retention

How to keep employee poachers at bay
BRYAN BORZYKOWSKI
Special to Globe and Mail Update
No business wants its work force pilfered by the competition, especially when it comes to key performers. And that’s even more so for small and medium-sized businesses than bigger ones, which can ill afford to lose and try to [...]

The Counter Offer – Dangers and Food for Thought

In a highly competitive landscape where talent is the straw that stirs the drink, the truly talented are often faced with considering a counter offer from their current employer when they resign.  A candidate I recently placed very aptly described the counter offer as being akin to the man who suggests counseling only after his [...]

Ten must-ask job interview questions

The Manager
Ten must-ask job interview questions
HARVEY SCHACHTER
From Monday’s Globe and Mail
Posted on Monday, January 3, 2011 9:29AM EST
THE KEY QUESTIONS
1. What was your most challenging job? Why? What did you learn from this job?
2. What was your least challenging job? Why? What did you learn from this job?
3. In what situation did you find that [...]

Meet the Millennials – Hospitality Hiring and the Under-30 Set

“Social media is the new networking”, says Doug Churchill, hospitality recruitment consultant for Lecours Wolfson, a leading recruiter of hospitality executives, managers and chefs. But like any other tool, job seekers interested in a hospitality career need to see beyond Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other sites to find the opportunities behind [...]

Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything – Tony Schwartz – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review

This is a great article, from HBR’s Blog, about the power of passion and intense/organized practice…
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If you want to be really good at something, it’s going to involve relentlessly pushing past your comfort zone, along with frustration, struggle, setbacks and failures. That’s true as [...]

“…small moves, smartly made, can set big things in motion”

An insightful ‘how-to’, by John Hagel and John Seely Brown (HBR Blog), about influencing opportunity and the power of genuine passion.
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“How to play a winning Card at the Interview”

Careers
Job interviews: Prepare for the right comeback

James Dimas LAURA LEYSHON for the Globe and Mail

Here are some do’s and don’ts for job seekers on giving the best responses to potential employers’ probing questions

Wallace Immen
From Friday’s Globe and Mail Published on Thursday, Sep. 09, 2010 4:57PM EDT Last updated on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 6:15AM [...]

Harvard Business Review – Life’s Work: Mario Batali (hbr.org)

The CEO in Orange Crocs – Mario Batali talks about leadership, the importance of teamwork,  and what makes an entrepreneurial partnership work.
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