In a continuation of conversations with leaders during the Covid-19 pandemic, I had a great opportunity to share time with JJ Gottsch, COO of Ryan Sanders Sports and Entertainment. This is a company that has seen an incredible impact due to the current crisis, but is still finding their way forward. Here is part of …
Professional lives and business operations are drastically changing and adapting in unprecedented ways in light of the current pandemic. For many companies, there are still targets to meet and deliverables to accomplish. For some, it is still business as “usual,” which means they are continuing to expand and hire. Big companies like LinkedIn and Google led the …
Rear-end collisions are the most common accidents. In an even narrower way, the more common type is when merging into traffic and anticipating what the driver in front of you will do instead of what they did and waiting your turn to then do your thing. You can see the frustration on another driver’s face when the …
Grocery stores and retail – that was my life from 15 years old when I had my first “non-ditch-digging/lawn mowing/snow shoveling job” until 1998. Working in the stores ‘facing’ the shelves (if you ever worked in the grocery stores, you know what that means and likely still do it when you shop today), getting shopping …
And other actual questions you should never ask in an interview A very good friend of mine recently let me know that he was interviewing someone for a job he had and the person started by asking him: How long is this gonna take? My friend is incredibly gracious and kind – he interviewed her …
As someone who has been in the recruiting industry for more than 20 years, this is something that I have heard hundreds of times. There are cases where an “ideal fit” comes along – those are great days and every recruiter pinches themselves when it happens. The fact of the matter, however, is that a …
During a conversation with someone the other day about interviewing and resume writing, it came up that “everyone inflates the truth” in both. I thought it odd to suggest that everyone does it though I would certainly be naïve to think it doesn’t happen at all either. I cannot (and won’t any longer) say that your entire …
Recruiters get a lot of questions related to their candidate’s overall job search. One came my way the other day that hadn’t been presented to me in a while. Specifically, “If I applied for, interviewed for and was declined for a role over a year ago, would it make sense to revisit that employer to …
I remember a conversation with an employee at Park Central Mall in downtown Phoenix some 13 years ago. I don’t recall the specifics of that talk, but I do remember that it ended with, “let’s stop telling people that we are ‘busy’ because it essentially means that we don’t have time to help them and, …
It’s interesting to think about the stages of life we go through as it relates to something like this and the various reactions we have as a result of our age. When you were a kid – you didn’t really care. Brownies, pepperoni, all the food you could, you would do the “see food” thing …