by John G. Self | Jun 27, 2010 | Career Management, Technology
When I began this blog some 149 posts ago, I wrote about recruiting, leadership, healthcare reform, career management, politics of healthcare, quality and patient safety, etc. Virtually everything that touched healthcare and captured my attention made it into this...
by John G. Self | Jun 13, 2010 | Career Management
I bought a lottery ticket last night. For me it is a whim, a flight of fancy that I take every week or so knowing, of course, that my chance of winning is so statistically remote, that my decision to fork over a dollar bill is nothing more than my paying...
by John G. Self | Jun 7, 2010 | Career Management
As an executive recruiter I receive dozens of calls each week — executives who have lost their job are scouting for a new opportunity. They want help. My practice model is client retained. This means that I work for clients, not candidates. To put...
by John G. Self | Jun 3, 2010 | Career Management
For emerging executives — early careerists –Onboarding guru George Bradt’s blog today at “Better Results Faster” is spot on. As I interview young executives, I frequently hear them talk about the mistakes they made early in...
by John G. Self | Oct 6, 2009 | Career Management
Mark Twain once defined a good liar as someone who could tell a fib, believed it to be the truth, and remembered the difference. With jobless rates nearing 10 percent for the first time since the early 1980s, and the competition for good jobs at heated levels, it is...