It’s Saturday morning so why not browse through the email junkyard? I receive many junk emails every day but my filters are fairly robust. However, every once and a while I go in there and look at the trapped messages. I suspect you are familiar with many of them too. I was thinking of embellished resumes when I read a junk email that had this (their spacing, not mine): Ha ve you ever thought that the only thing stopping you from a great job and bet ter pay was a few letter s behind you name? Well now you c an get them! BA BSc MA MSc MBA PhD Within… Read More
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Our latest article is finished and has been submitted for editorial review. Look for it early next week – can it really be that the Fourth of July is just over a week away? I was reviewing some of our previous articles and came across these paragraphs from Retooling the Hiring Process for Today’s Market: One key to properly retooling will shift the current focus from experience to talent. This fundamental change will be precipitated by the need to develop talent as opposed to hiring experience. The experienced candidate will become a product of a supply and demand marketplace. There will be more demand with less supply which leads to… Read More
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From a generic cover letter of a person who claims to be a “walking think tank”: I currently have a job, which pays well, but does not allow me to allow my creativity to flourish. So here, I pose an offer. If you represent a company that can recognize an innovative mind with unlimited potential for improving your company, please contact me immediately. An interesting approach that makes them stand out. Unfortunately, it does so by sounding quite arrogant. “…unlimited potential for improving your company” speaks in what I term the infinitive condescension. My immediate suspicion is that this person is more concerned about meeting their own needs as opposed… Read More
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