Have you ever taken an employee survey where you are asked to respond to items like this?
“I have the opportunity to do my best each day.”
“I would recommend the company as a good place to work to my friends.”
“Even though I work as hard as a dog, have no personal life and have not seen [...]

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I am all for college degrees. In fact I have a couple myself. But for many people, getting the college degree didn’t happen either by plan or by circumstances. Despite this they have built a good career holding the types of professional jobs even though their peers in similar positions had degrees.
How does this happen?
Simple actually. These degree-less people [...]

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If you haven’t yet, you must see George Clooney’s movie “Up in the Air” – the story about a charming corporate road-warrior hired by spineless managers to fire their employees.
I saw it last weekend and as someone who spent 18 years witnessing thousands of people lose their jobs it was very hard to watch and [...]

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I was poking around a few of my favorite job sites this morning, and discovered that a particular company was announcing that it was hiring.  Great! So what’s the problem?  One of my dear friends had just been laid off from that very company not one month ago. Oh.  Ouch. Chances are excellent that candidates [...]

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