Hitchhiker in the Corner Office

Just the other day, I was reminded that companies need to be nimble in order to get the best talent.  For the past 3 months, I have been engaged with a client that is looking for a Vice President of Operations for a remote location on the West Coast.  This search has had its issues [...]

The resume is thedoorway to landing a position. As the first impression that most employers have of you, it should be your goal to make sure that it can outshine all the othersthat come across the employer’s desk. This means that it must contain certain elements that will make the employer take notice of it [...]

A lot of employers these days are using phone interviews as the step before deciding whether or not to have a candidate in for an in-person interview. A lot of the reason is because a failed phone interview can be a deciding factor in whether to move on to that next step. Here are some [...]

Earlier this week, Kathy Casey-Krischling was the first of her generation, The Baby Boomer, to receive a Social Security payment.  (See article)  What this means is that some 8,000 of her fellow boomers will be 62 years old and eligible for Social Security.  What this means from an employment standpoint is that a huge part [...]

When working in the corporate world, especially over a certain salary range, the likelihood that an organization will desire for you to relocate to fill a position increases. In a day and age where country borders do not form borders to business and the world is our corporate boardroom, it is necessary to be prepared [...]

Burger King has been kicking some serious ass lately with great sales and television ads.  Hey No Whopper On The Menu?! in today’s Wall Street Journal talks about the current series of ads the company is running. If you haven’t seen the ads, customers are secretly video taped and told that the company has decided to [...]

If you can say that you have never dealt with a challenging manager, then consider yourself among the few and the blessed, because they are a lot more common than not. In fact, you might find through research that issues or challenges with upper management ranks among the top reasons that individuals choose to leave [...]

If you are a recruiter like me, then you have probably received a resume or two across your desk and wondered just how best to pull applicable information from it in order to fill a position. It’s no secret that many individuals do not know how to construct a proper resume, and then there are [...]