by John G. Self | Apr 21, 2016 | Healthcare, Leadership, Military Career Transition, Recruiting, Technology
The law of unintended consequences is a virtual certainty in crafting complex solutions, passing new laws and in proposing quick fixes to intractable problems. That is one of life’s great realities. The other is that nothing is as it appears. In 1956 a popular...
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...
by John G. Self | Apr 6, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Early Careerists, Healthcare, Military Career Transition, Millennials, Podcast, Recruiting
Hello everyone! Today’s podcast focuses on how to work with recruiters. I am always surprised when I realize how little executives and candidates know about the recruiting process, and how various types of search firms actually work. We will provide you with...
by John G. Self | Mar 31, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Healthcare, Military Career Transition, Recruiting
One thing the military does better than Harvard, Yale, Wharton or Kellogg schools of business, is teach leadership. The Pentagon invests more per capita on leadership training than perhaps any US corporation, save GE. “After you strip away the rank, the uniform and...
