Don’t you get angry when you buy a product and find that it’s not at all what you were expecting? Sometimes I’ll see new products in the supermarket and look at the package and try it. Of course, the beautiful dish on the box looks nothing like the soggy mess on my plate. I never know at whom to get mad – the marketer for doing their job or myself for being such a dope.
The same thing happens in catalogs or on-line. Lovely product descriptions that are only marginally like the thing that arrives in the box a few days later. The funny thing is that people do this every day and they often do it with the single most important thing they have to sell: themselves. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Job Search
False Advertising
Filed under Growing up, Helpful Hints, Reality checks
3 Job Questions You Must Ask
Lots of folks, both employees and friends, have come to me over the years to ask my thinking about a position they were considering. And no, you shouldn’t find it strange that people who worked for me asked my thinking on this – I encouraged it as part of the open communication I tried to foster. They’re co-workers, not slaves! In any event, there were always 3 questions I told them they needed to answer and IN THIS ORDER. Continue reading
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Sayonara
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When I hire people I’m usually paying attention to the time the candidate spent in each job. While I accept the fact that companies and people don’t stay married for 8, 10, 20 years any more as they did when I started my career, it’s still a red flag to me to see someone with 3 jobs in 4 years with 3 different companies. It says as much to me about the company as it does about the candidate. Continue reading
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