Hiring managers: want someone who will bust their tail for you? Hire a first or second generation American. I’m first generation American. I am friends with many first gen-ers. We are all hyper competitive, overachievers with a hunger to succeed. Most of us have multiple degrees. We started working when we were young, likely for …
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I have long hair. It’s past my mid back. I’ve been alerted by several women’s magazines as well as some career bloggers that since I’m in my early 30′s, long hair looks silly. Professional ladies have short bobs and sensible dos. Unfortunately for all the lady-bloggers and Vogue editors, they do not understand my predicament. …
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Back in the early days of the interwebs, I had an employee who really, really loved surfing the internet. Every time I’d go by his desk, he’d be on some random forum, looking at car photos, or on his personal email. Was it just bad luck, I wondered, as I had been known to do …
Read More…I love the movie Old School, even though it’s silly. I was in my final year of undergrad when it came out, and I got a special enjoyment of laughing at how boring the grown up characters were. Frank: I told my wife I wouldn’t drink tonight. Besides, I got a big day tomorrow. You guys …
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Not giving your employees enough of a complex? Buy these and watch the Foxconn-esque reaction.
Read More…Tomorrow! Curious about what it takes to build and maintain a great Human Resources, Recruiting or Human Capital Management blog? Interested in reaching the HR audience but don’t know what to say? Have you tried blogging for your own company with mixed results? Come hear three leading HR blogging experts talk about building brand awareness, …
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I had “ma’am” and “sir” shoved down my throat as a child as part of the politeness repertoire that my parents mandated. Now, at 32, I feel absolutely uncomfortable addressing someone- anyone- and not using ma’am or sir while doing so. It was more understandable when I was a 22 year old wunderkind that everyone …
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Newly minted college graduates and grad school graduates: you should take this as the gospel. When I was right out of law school at 25, I thought I knew everything because I had memorized a plethora of factoids and cases in my little brain. The working world, however, kicked my butt. No one likes the …
Read More…If you live in Texas, or watched the news or MTV in the late 90′s, you probably heard about my high school. If you were around in the mid 80′s, you have probably heard about my high school. In the mid 80′s, Plano was known for its teenage suicides. In the late 90′s, Plano was …
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