Career

The Right and Wrong Ways to Manage People Through Technology

As we progress further into the Digital Age, many of us fear that the automation of processes through technology and the movement of HR into the cloud may cause us to lose the human relationships that lie at the heart of all good HR practice.What we need to realize, though, is that technology is useless unless there are people around to apply it.

4 Secrets of Recruiting Every Candidate Should Know

What's worse: being rejected from a job and receiving honest feedback regarding why you were not selected, or getting no response at all from an employer?As a career coach, I find that most of my clients feel no reply is worse than an honest, if negative, reply.

The Latest: Amtrak says safety improving after fatal crash

The Latest on ruling (all times local): 12:30 p.m. Federal investigators say they've found major lapses in Amtrak's safety culture, including more than two dozen unsafe conditions at a work zone where a train slammed into a maintenance backhoe last year near Philadelphia, killing two workers.

Recruiting Is About More Than Putting Warm Bodies in Desk Chairs

When it comes to recruiting, there's an easy way and a hard way to get the job done.The easy way focuses on volume: Place a lot of candidates into jobs for which they are vaguely qualified, kick your feet up, and wait for the money to roll in.The hard way – and the right way – takes more work: Truly get to know clients and roles, spend time matching the right candidates to the right opportunities, and support candidates and clients in the long term.

Commanding Growth: Creating New Market Categories in Shrinking Markets

How can your organization grow in a market that is itself not growing – or in a market that is in fact shrinking?That was the challenge my marketing, sales, and research and development (RD) teams faced with our emergency medical services (EMS) equipment business at the turn of the millennium.Our parent company, Stryker, launched the RUGGED ambulance cot in 1994.

Office Life Captured in 10 Haiku

Despite being a traditionally nature-oriented form of poetry developed in pre-modern Japan, the haiku may be the perfect verse form for life in the modern workplace.

It's Not You, It's Me: Why You're Not Getting Hired or Promoted

Whether it's not hearing back about the job for which you applied, being politely turned down after an interview, or being passed over for promotion, rejection hurts.It would be understandable to get angry, depressed, and/or apathetic about it.