Some humble pie from the recruiting trail…. There’s some non-verbal cues that I call the meeting wrap up signals. If you meet with people for a living, you probably know them well, even if they’re involuntary on your part. Non-verbal meeting wrap-up signals include the following, from least to most demonstrative (most demonstrative means you’re trying [...]
Cool stuff when I got home last Friday. My oldest son (9 year old) had a “livestrong” type message rubber bracelet on, and under further review, it had the Y logo with the numbers “5210″ on it (pictured to the right). As a DAXKO team member, it was great to see the Y logo on [...]
As part of my professional development at DAXKO, I’m going to be at the Social Recruiting Summit in the Twin Cities in May – see more details here. The good news for DAXKO is they don’t have to pay for this conference, because I’m working this one to pay my frieght – I’m the host of [...]
You know the drill. When you hire for a living, you verify whether the person has the knowledge, skills and abilities to do the job the way you need it done, then you go by your instincts. Do you want to work with the person? Are they going to drive you crazy? Liking the person [...]
Of course, we don’t want you to wreck your career. But just for contrast’s sake, we’ll tell you how to make the least of what’s left of your career, then we’ll tell how to do the opposite – to actually be successful in your career endeavors – in case that’s the path you want to [...]
We’ve got this little series at DAXKO called the TMD program. TMD stands for “Team Member Development” (I know, it’s a sexy branding statement, isn’t it?) and the concept is that you bring your lunch, and we’ll provide a speaker (could be internal or external to DAXKO) to get you up to speed on a [...]
By now, you’re probably on Twitter. Congrats. There is stuff to be learned there, but you have to make some choices. Am I using it for my personal life? Limiting it to just those I can learn from professionally? A mixture? If so, how do I wall that off? What type of tools should I [...]
Here’s some advice that will have you throwing things at your computer screen when the past two years have witnessed your 401k value chopped by 40%… “Buy Low, Sell High”. It’s a cliche’, but it’s true. It’s human nature to avoid things that are painful, especially shortly after you have experienced the pain – things [...]
Is performance management upside down in Corporate America? Here are a couple of quick observations: 1. Jobs are structured for the company, not the employee. I’m not saying that’s wrong, just outlining the facts. 2. 90% of the time we spend talking about performance is about how to manage negative variance. 3. We don’t spend [...]
If there is anything the insertion of technology has done in the hiring process, it’s cheapen the value of each application submitted by a candidate when job hunting. The old process used to keep a lot of people out of consideration – it took work, including printing your resume, addressing an envelope, maybe doing a cover [...]
