{"id":1537,"date":"2008-04-26T09:40:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T14:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/relocate-me\/"},"modified":"2008-04-26T09:37:05","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T14:37:05","slug":"relocate-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/relocate-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Relocate Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/relocate-this\/\">This post was no joke on April 1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I give you my backyard this morning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.selectmetrix.com\/images\/Posts\/RelocateMe_852B\/April26Backyard.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.selectmetrix.com\/images\/Posts\/RelocateMe_852B\/April26Backyard_thumb.jpg?resize=244%2C184\" alt=\"April 26 Backyard\" height=\"184\" style=\"border: 0px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Add to that 31 degrees and you may understand the overall somber mood up here.\u00a0 Last weekend was sunny and 75 degrees.\u00a0 One thing about living in Minnesota, we love to <strike>whine<\/strike> talk about the weather.<\/p>\n<p>Now, perhaps, you understand why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was no joke on April 1. I give you my backyard this morning: Add to that 31 degrees and you may understand the overall somber mood up here.\u00a0 Last weekend was sunny and 75 degrees.\u00a0 One thing about living in Minnesota, we love to whine talk about the weather. Now, perhaps, you understand why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[480,168,101],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","tag-mn-winter","tag-recruiting","tag-relocation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-oN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1670,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/degreesdollars\/","url_meta":{"origin":1537,"position":0},"title":"Degrees=Dollars","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 22, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is from the Career News newsletter (sorry, no link): According to the U.S. Census Bureau the difference in lifetime earnings between a high school diploma and bachelor's degree is a million dollars. 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I think that is a good way to frame the requirement.\u00a0 I would not want to prohibit a strong sales candidate from applying because of a degree requirement.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Employment Ads&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Employment Ads","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/employment-ads\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1843,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/01\/pat\/","url_meta":{"origin":1537,"position":2},"title":"Pat","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Don't get me wrong, I love email.\u00a0 However, there is a downside to it.\u00a0 I am emailing with someone today and I have no idea what gender they are. The fact that it is -25 degrees F here today may be impacting my cognitive ability which is fine as long\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anecdotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anecdotes","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/anecdotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1396,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/01\/cold-calls-or-connections\/","url_meta":{"origin":1537,"position":3},"title":"Cold Calls Or Connections","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"We have been debating the merits of cold calling recently here at Select Metrix.\u00a0 My take is that it is an archaic approach that appears active but produces little.\u00a0 I don't recall the other argument since mine was so persuasive (that ought to get Lee going). 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