Ok, maybe electronic communication has gone too far. I posted some Termination Tips a week ago that apparently were not read by Radio Shack’s upper management team. Before that, I posted about Text Message Terminations – an employee was fired through her cell phone text messaging. Granted, it was from a body piercing shop, but the approach was still laughable. Now Radio Shack has decided to enter this infamous club by using email to terminate employees. This is no joke: Employees at the Fort Worth headquarters received an e-mail Tuesday morning telling them they were being dismissed immediately.”The work force reduction notification is currently in progress,” the notice stated. “Unfortunately… Read More
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After input from one of our readers (thank you Amitai), we have opened up our comments section so you no longer need to register to post a comment. Due to the high volume of daily spam we receive, we will have to continue to hold comments in moderation for the time being. We will approve the comments as we check to make sure they are not automated posts. At any rate, I hope the open comments section makes it easier to share your thoughts on The Hire Sense.
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We have just been added to the Recruiting.com Blog directory which is a great resource for finding high-quality recruiting blogs. Thanks to Jason for adding us to the directory and I am sure our blogroll will be growing in the next few weeks!
Continue ReadingThe Impending Entrepreneur Wave
A good sign from an Inc.com article – Three Out of Four Teens Want to Start a Business. I suspect there is a dream factor to being young and having your work career completely in front of you. Nonetheless, I am all for the youths of this country aspiring to create new careers for themselves. Two interesting points from the article: Of more than 1,400 teens surveyed across the nation earlier this year, nearly 71% said they would like to run a business someday, up from 64% in 2004 Surprisingly, very few said the desire to own a business is driven by a lack of meaningful employment elsewhere. Instead, nearly… Read More
Continue ReadingHail Rhymes With Sale
This may only interest me, but I read an employment ad for a Hail Restoration Salesperson this morning. We had a tremendous hail storm roll through here last week – softball-sized hail did some extensive damage. I have already received 5-6 mailers/brochures from roofing companies in the past 5 days. Now I read this ad and it states: This could be the opportunity of a lifetime, with six-figure income potential easily within reach. Maybe it is that big of an opportunity, but I am skeptical. What does this salesperson do in the middle of our extended Minnesota winter? I would recommend this position be on a contract only. The steady… Read More
Continue ReadingManaging Other Communication Styles
Monster.com posted this article last week – Adapting Your Management Style. There isn’t a lot of meat in this thing but it does address an important principle: Moniot helped the manager better understand different personality styles and then devised an innovative visual cue of a color-coded piece of paper, correlated with their assessed personality style, that was taped to the top of each worker’s computer monitor. This served as a reminder of each staff member’s communication needs as the manager entered their workspace. I suspect . . . no, I guarantee this manager has a High D style. The High D has long been cherished for management because of their… Read More
Continue ReadingJob Hopping Amongst Executives
Job hopping gets much attention from companies when they are in hiring mode and rightly so. This business article provides some interesting statistics in regards to upper-level management trends. Did you know: A total of 17,612 managers from chief executive officers to vice presidents changed jobs from January through July, more than twice the 7,251 during the same period in 2005, New York-based Liberum Research said in a study released Tuesday. Of the executive changes, 1,636 were CEOs, up 50 percent from 1,089 in the first seven months of 2005 The pressure hasn’t been just on CEOs. Some 1,444 chief financial officers left their companies through July this year, up… Read More
Continue ReadingThe Gut is NOT the Answer
We were at a customer site yesterday afternoon and heard a great line. This is a large, national company with thousands of employees. Our HR contacts have to work with many different hiring managers and have to debrief with them after interviews. One of the lines they hear from a particular manager is that their gut tells them no on a certain candidate who has been qualified and assessed. Our HR contact said, “We don’t like ‘gut’ in HR.” Amen to that! We don’t like it either in our business. Far better to hear objective assessment analysis and direct interview responses as opposed to anything involving the ethereal “my gut”… Read More
Continue ReadingThe Silver Bullet
No, not Coors. I’m talking about interview questions. More specifically, is there any catch-all interview question that will reveal the essence of the candidate. No. I read many articles that discuss interview strategies and most of them are exercises in theory. Maybe my sales background taints my perspective, but interviews are qualifying events for both the candidate and interviewer. What I mean is that template questions tend to generate template answers. For example: Q – “Where do you want to be in 5 years?” A – “I hope to use my leadership skills to expand my responsibilities within the company and move into a leadership position.” That exchange was worthless… Read More
Continue ReadingCrackBerry Lawsuits
Unbelievable. This seems like it must be a joke, but I doubt it. Here is the gist of the article: But instead of increased efficiency, lawsuits against employers who supply workers with gadgets are “very possible,” she says. Addiction to technology blamed by critics on the seeming ubiquity of portable e-mail devices, smartphones, cellphones and laptops, coupled with long working hours is hardly a new phenomenon. But Porter argues litigation could be the next step, as employees seek redress for technology dependence.
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