by John G. Self | Dec 20, 2013 | Stories
The best time to be in a retail bakery is in the morning. The aroma is overpowering. Freshly baked coffee cakes and breakfast danish loaded with cinnamon and almonds. The smell of breads and cakes just out of the oven. Wow, the aroma alone will sell the products....
by John G. Self | Dec 18, 2013 | Career Management
Dan is spending this Christmas holiday in a rented town home in suburban DFW worried about his future. Dan, his wife and two kids relocated to Dallas to be near family. They’ve done a major lifestyle shift to preserve his dwindling savings. Dan is a seasoned...
by John G. Self | Dec 9, 2013 | Career Management
I think most career counselors and recruiters have this recurring dream: they take the time to share helpful tips on brand management with job seekers but the vast majority are not listening, or, they are just lazy and hoping the extra effort with the resume will not...
by John G. Self | Sep 25, 2013 | Career Management, Recruiting
John Self is off this week. We hope you enjoy this blog from July 2010 on the top of telephone interviews. The telephone interview is a killer. More potentially good candidates are eliminated from consideration based on their performance at this stage of the...
by John G. Self | Aug 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
Let’s be honest. Not every employee is, or can be, a top performer. Most are not. So the real question, the important question, is how do you improve on average? Mediocrity is a mixture of skills, knowledge, potential and attitude, so says author Rymer...
