I always thought it would be fun to be a personal advice columnist, like 'Dear Abby'. The only problem was, I knew my answers would never get published in a general audience paper. 'Dear Jeff, my significant other is having…
I am by nature a skeptic and contrarian. In general, these tendencies have served me well in my various careers. But they also can result in situations where I am surrounded by folks who are making big claims, and who…
To paraphrase a well-known movie/book, conferences are like a box of chocolates - you don't know what you'll get until you try one. Or something like that. The Jobg8 Summit last week in Nashville was a nice mix of old…
Note: The Doctor is heading off to Jobg8's Summit in Nashville this week - and thus thought a repost of this would be a good idea. Enjoy! Hey folks, in a few months days I am heading off to the Jobg8…
Remember full-serve gas stations? Most of us 'of a certain age' do. You'd pull up, an attendant (usually teenage and bored) would appear, ask you how much gas you wanted, then would proceed to clean your windshield and pump the…
As an industry, we have always been the beneficiary of employers' hiring anxiety. Why would they bother to use a job board or recruiting service if they weren't at least a little bit anxious about their own abilities to fill…
What do you get if you can't articulate what you want? Sometimes you get a surprise, as in: 'Just get me something that tastes good', and you are presented with 'liver an onions cooked 7 ways' (apologies to those liver…
Note: The Doctor is recovering from the holiday (and too much house painting!). Enjoy this still-relevant post from last year: A fundamental challenge for our industry is discovery: how do candidates and employers discover each other? You can argue that job…
Although I'm hardly a LinkedIn fan-boy, I've found their strategy since acquisition by Microsoft quite interesting. As many predicted, they've become enmeshed with Microsoft's various enterprise products. But they've also continued to grow their own product via what I call incremental…
Hey folks, in a few months I am heading off to the Jobg8 Job Board Summit, July 26-27, in Nashville. Why? Well, they invited me to put together the agenda and speaker list - so I kind of thought I…