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Another Denied Comment

I like Recruiter.com, but they definitely seem to put a stranglehold on the comments to make sure everything is nice and shiny.  Here’s an article they put up concerning dress code, and my response:...

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Interesting Article from WO

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-samuelson-where-have-all-the-entrepreneurs-gone/2014/08/06/e01e7246-1d7c-11e4-82f9-2cd6fa8da5c4_story.html Old business practices are indeed a major...

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A Worthwhile Read for Every Idiot Manager on the Planet

[M]ost American workers don’t realize that for most of the 20th century, the broad consensus among American business leaders was that working people more than 40 hours a week was stupid, wasteful,...

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The! War! For! Talent!

Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of posts prognosticating that 2015 is going to be The Year where everything turns around. Employees are in the driver’s seat! Salaries are going up! The economy is in real...

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Good LinkedIn Post

Definitely worth reading this, I’ll comment on it later, but I wanted to get it up here when I saw it. Update: Ted makes some good points, but I think he misses the underlying problem: Sales!  The...

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The Broken Window Fallacy and Sales and Recruiting

The broken window fallacy is simple, yet most people don’t get it.  Most news anchors will commit this fallacy whenever there’s a hurricane, and in the aftermath they say something along the lines of,...

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Another of Ted’s LinkedIn Posts

Another good post by this guy here, I have some comments to offer, with quotes extracted I will comment on, but the gist of the post is that productivity has gone up quite a bit from the 1950s, but...

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Some Comments on a Recent Tom Woods Show

I’ve commented a few times on Tom Woods’ show.  Now, to be straight, I like the guy.  His political ideology more or less matches mine, but we came to it from two totally different starting points.  He...

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LinkedIn, and the Great Recruiter Fuckfest

I do love LinkedIn. It was nothing more than a hopped up resume database with hyperlinks, and it made research real easy, and that was good. Over the last year or so though, it has turned into a...

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Interviews, or How to Fuck Up Hiring

There’s a nice article here on interviewing, it’s short and sweet, but pretty much sums up my views on the matter entirely. The TLDR of it is, you’re wasting your time with interviews unless they are...

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