by John G. Self | Jan 13, 2016 | Career Management
Sometimes it is hard to trust — instrumentation, technology, even Google maps and route navigation. The human mind is a powerful computer that can be adversely affected by our senses, even when those strong impulses in the brain are misguided. For example, when...
by John G. Self | Jul 29, 2015 | Career Management
At 32, after eight mostly successful years as a special projects manager for a major health system, Sally was out of a job. That there were 150 colleagues in the corporate office facing the same fate did not make this day easier. They called it a strategic...
by John G. Self | Jul 8, 2015 | Career Management
When an executive gets the sack, there are two underlying facts: they were caught off guard, or, they saw it coming. Either way, there is no reason — no excuse — not to be prepared, especially in an era of rambunctious business model reform, consolidation and...
by John G. Self | Jul 6, 2015 | Career Management, Recruiting
The meeting with his boss was a shock. What a 55-year-old Chief Operating Officer thought was a routine weekly update meeting would be his last with the company. He was informed “the organization wanted to go in another direction.” He was being terminated. They...
by John G. Self | Jun 26, 2015 | Career Management, Recruiting
CHICAGO — When my seat mate on a recent flight found out that I was a recruiter, she told me she was not impressed with her recruiter who insisted on charging her a fat fee to find her a job. She then used a phrase that can best be translated as people like me are...
