by John G. Self | Apr 27, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Early Careerists, Military Career Transition, Millennials
When we lose our job we all — and I mean ALL — want someone to step in and make everything OK and to find us a new job. That is just a natural human reaction regardless of whether it is rooted in reality or not. The reality is that the mainstream practitioners of...
by John G. Self | Apr 26, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Early Careerists, Leadership, Military Career Transition, Millennials, Podcast, Recruiting
This is a follow-up podcast to our blog on Monday, April 25, 2016: Behavior & Values Interviewing: A Performance Imperative. More and more companies are using this approach to interviewing but it produces better people, better results. Our Firm has been using...
by John G. Self | Apr 21, 2016 | Career Management, Early Careerists, Healthcare, Millennials, Podcast
The path to the executive office can be daunting, especially for early careerists. This journey can be long and the pathway filled with potholes and infiltrated with jerk leaders who enjoy thwarting the advancement of competitors. Planning ahead can help you dodge the...
by John G. Self | Apr 15, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Early Careerists, Millennials, Recruiting
Recruiters and candidates need to be more respectful of one another. As I have written before, candidates and recruiters actually have one important element in common. Job seeking executives spend every day networking and looking for work. So do recruiters. But all...
by John G. Self | Apr 13, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Early Careerists, Healthcare, Military Career Transition, Millennials, Resume, Social Media
The good news is that there are fewer snake oil salesmen guaranteeing out-of-work executives that they can find them that big-time senior executive job making at least $200,000. For a big fat fee. For those job-seeking executives — young or old — who still think...
by John G. Self | Apr 11, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Current Affairs, Early Careerists, Healthcare, Leadership, Military Career Transition, Millennials, Recruiting
Racial diversity is not social engineering as some think. It is good business. For too many years businesses across the US did not pay much attention to diversity hiring. Executive suites, especially in hospitals, reflected that lack of attention – mostly...
