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Jobs Are Scarce, But Candidates’ Expectations Aren’t

There’s an assumption pervading board rooms and inner circles of management that high unemployment is tempering the demands of candidates. I’ve got a simple response: Stop drinking the…

The Pros and Cons of Rehiring Employees Who Quit

Just a few years ago, using the axiom “time heals all wounds” and boomerang worker in the same sentence would seem so…contradictory. This shift in attitude has thrown a…

Job Market of the Future: Startups With Zero Employees?

When writing my monthly column for Business2Business, I included a statistic from a previous post about my prediction for jobs growth in 2010. “Unlike the economic…

The day I took my mother to work and….

My 85 year-old mother is visiting with us this week. I invited her to come to "work" with me yesterday.  Not only was she thrilled…

Workforce trends 2010: Changing Career Paradigms

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First, Know Thyself

"When it comes to career reinvention, too many people make a fundamental mistake: They don't know themselves," begins an article in yesterday's Wall Street…

Know your career ‘inflection points’

Everyone has probably head the quote attributed to Albert Einsten that insanity is defined as "doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result…