A Recruiter.com Article I Commented On
There’s an article here at Recruiter.com that I decided to comment on. Here’s the comment: “‘It’s weird that we haven’t built any tools for team leaders at all,’ Buckingham says. ‘We have none – not...
View ArticleYet Another Example of Incompetence…
So we have a client who came close to a hire, but since they put the date of hire off for two months for some reason, the person found something else to do. They got a bunch of resumes, went through a...
View ArticleHere’s the thing…
I’ve noticed something, something people don’t seem to get, and that is that there’s a compounding effect among the factors that make a bad job bad. Put another way, as jobs get worse, they tend to...
View ArticleGood LinkedIn Post
Definitely worth reading this, I’ll comment on it later, but I wanted to get it up here when I saw it. Update: Ted makes some good points, but I think he misses the underlying problem: Sales! The...
View ArticleGet a Degree?
An interesting post on LinkedIn asked a question: why is there no recruiting degree? The reason is frighteningly simple: there’s no degree to be offered in bullshit this blatant. Let’s go through the...
View ArticleThe Broken Window Fallacy and Sales and Recruiting
The broken window fallacy is simple, yet most people don’t get it. Most news anchors will commit this fallacy whenever there’s a hurricane, and in the aftermath they say something along the lines of,...
View Article… And Yet More “Recruiting is Sales!” Bullshit
Yet another article, again predictably on LinkedIn, claiming recruiting is sales. And yet another blog poster blaming HR for shitty results. Now, to be fair to the author, Lou Adler, I have found his...
View ArticleAnother of Ted’s LinkedIn Posts
Another good post by this guy here, I have some comments to offer, with quotes extracted I will comment on, but the gist of the post is that productivity has gone up quite a bit from the 1950s, but...
View ArticleH1 B Article
This article is worth a read here. The author is right, and wrong. I’d say, in a free economy, come who may and work or not. The problem is we don’t live in a free economy, we live in a highly...
View ArticleSome Comments on a Recent Tom Woods Show
I’ve commented a few times on Tom Woods’ show. Now, to be straight, I like the guy. His political ideology more or less matches mine, but we came to it from two totally different starting points. He...
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