by John G. Self | Apr 12, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Leadership, Millennials, Podcast, Recruiting, Social Media
Young executives — Generation Y, aka The Millennials — get the importance and understand the power of social media. But when you get to the Baby Boomers and Generation X, those groups that make up the largest group of business executives, they are a little...
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...
by John G. Self | Mar 30, 2016 | Career Management, Early Careerists, Healthcare, Leadership, Millennials, Recruiting
I think the Millennials — the vast majority — are getting a bum rap. Previously, I wrote about some fairly damning criticisms of this group which I thought were unfair, especially when you consider that every generation has its own sociological quirks. An age...
by John G. Self | Mar 27, 2016 | Career Management, Current Affairs, Millennials, Recruiting
Our economy is undergoing an irreversible shift and let’s be honest, things will never be the same again, regardless of who we elect as President. Symbolically, global trade and the loss of thousands upon thousands of manufacturing jobs have given way to the rise of...
