Corporate ladder, meet elevator
Corporate ladder, meet elevator
Age Discrimination in the job interview. You can do something about it.
Age Discrimination and the job interview
Age discrimination in a job interview is a volatile topic. Candidates can feel helpless when they feel this happens and it isn’t just to folks over 40, 50 or 60+. Stereotyping can be experienced by candidates that feel they were declined because they are too young,
No trees were cut, bound, lashed, or had melted candle wax dripped on them
Company Christmas tree
With so much sensitivity in the workplace and so much insensitivity in the political arena, I thought I would update a classic post. Every year, I am asked an age-old HR question. “Can we have a company Christmas tree at work”.
Effective remote workers in their element
How the remote worker can demonstrate success
Do you want to be a remote worker? With evolving workforces and the new technologies entering the job market, one common perk in a comp package is the ability to work as a remote employee.
There are several reasons this request is made by a candidate or existing employee:
Let there be cake!
Disclaimer: *The following story is a true workplace diversity story. I wrote the below post which was uploaded on our company website and am reposting it here with permission. The names have been omitted to protect from poaching.
Celebrate
Today, one of our Senior Developers brought in carrot cake for the entire company.
Will your answer to the Desired Salary question make it rain?
We know the Desired Salary question is coming
“What is your desired salary question?” Ever worried if your number was too high or too low when interviewing for your dream job? Ever wonder if you are disqualifying yourself or leaving money on the table?
A compensation philosophy isn’t just about the Benjamins
The interview question of questions
I don’t think a week goes by where I am asked how to answer the standard interview question “What is your desired salary?” Truthfully, I don’t hear about it this topic in the form of a question, I hear about it in the form of an accusation.
Are you promotable?
Are you Promotable or Expendable at your job?
Ninety percent of employees feel they are promotable. In reality, from a manager’s standpoint, 90 percent of employees fall into category number 2 and 3 listed below.
Uhh yeah, wrong answer. How do you recover?
Wrong Interview Answer
What do you do when you realize that you provided the wrong interview answer? What do you do when you realize we could have answered an interview question more effectively after we have left the interview.
We have all done it.
A beautiful gesture!
Job reference follow up
You would be surprised how many candidates unintentionally burn bridges with their references after the job was landed. Don’t think it was you? If we are not reaching out with updates to these important contacts, that bridge may be burned. Today’s post is part three in a series of three posts on the topic of handling our references: how to strengthen the bond between us the candidate and our reference.
Direct what is said in your references checks
Controlling the reference checks conversation
For most of us, the reference checks stage of a job search either scare us shitless or we don’t realize how important this step is. Depending on our personality type, we think of one of two things when it comes to reference checks.
Is your recruiter able to reach the 2 job references you provided?
How many job references should I provide?
Congrats! We landed a job offer and the hiring company is going to check your job references. Today, I want us to think about providing more than the ho-hum, standard 2-3 job references that the hiring company requested.
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