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Interviewing during the holidays

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#RealTalk
Missed Opportunity for Job Interview Practice
A Holiday Tradition

There’s no better time to start job interview practice than the holidays.

Every year, I watch close friends shepherd their little monsters through another festive season. I see the same missed career development opportunity playing out in public. It forces me to question the future of corporate America. Not because children are terrible. But because adults are raising future coworkers and teaching them exactly the wrong lessons.

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Job Interview Practice before meeting with CEO of Christmas

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job interview practice

job interview practice

These two didn’t get any interview practice for their meeting with the CEO of Christmas
Missed opportunity for job interview practice

There’s no better time to start job interview practice than the holidays. I have close friends with little monsters and see a wasted career development opportunity. Watching them go through another holiday season forces me to question the future of corporate America. There are plenty who feel I am insensitive and that I do not believe in humanity.

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Is it OK to have a company Christmas tree? HR speaks out

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company christmas tree

company christmas tree

No trees were cut, bound, lashed, or had melted candle wax dripped on them
Company Christmas tree

Given the heightened sensitivity in the workplace and the 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?” Questions start coming in hot the day after Halloween and continue mercilessly through December. Now that Thanksgiving has passed,

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