Networking Is Only the Beginning
The answer to so many questions today is found in the one word “networking.” This is discussed in product marketing, sales training, recruiting, job searches, and just about anywhere that personal...
View ArticleThe Best Job Search Advice
In an online world where we must constantly be on guard against spammers, tricksters and thieves we arrive at a dilemma: When our needs are great enough to require a greater than normal amount of...
View ArticleReviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – The Intertwining of HR and Job Search
The articles published this week spoke of optimism, learning, networking, advising and intervening. While there is a specific target audience to each of these, there is a thread running through them...
View ArticleBusiness Silo Cure and Prevention
CEO’s, CHRO’s, Engagement officers and other cultural Ninjas in the world of work are in a constant battle against not only the traditional way of doing things, but also need to overcome human nature....
View ArticleReviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Times Are Tough But Life Goes On
This was a particularly rough week for many with ties to the Boston area. When tragedy strikes many people don’t know how to react. There are a few who immediately begin making tasteless jokes and at...
View ArticleNetworking: Anybody Can Do It with These Dozen Tips
Whether you are in human resources, communications, sales, underemployed or unemployed, you will hear the mantra “Network, network, network!” over and over again. Introverts may recoil with fear and...
View ArticleNetworking: The Barrier Buster
When we talk about networking, it conjures up a broad foggy blur of reaching out globally to individuals who may have immediate impact on our goals and desires, but for the most part the network is...
View ArticleNetworking: The Future Is Three-Dimensional
The concept of a network usually can be depicted as a two-dimensional representation of interconnected boxes with a person or an organization as the focal point. As a network grows, it spawns...
View ArticleReviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Thinking Outside of the Network
Making a stab at covering all aspects of networking led to a five part series on the topic. Although each article was banging on the gate to be let out into the wild, I tamed them into showing up on...
View ArticleSocial Recruiting: Where You are Going is NOT on The Map (Yet)
History is often a straight line from the past to the present. People and politics can alter that course, but civilization seems to be predestined to advance because of natural forces that somehow...
View ArticleReviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Exploring Social Recruiting
From time to time I pick out a timely topic and give it a try. I was an early adopter to the concept of using social media in recruiting. I’m not sure who put together the term Social Recruiting but it...
View ArticleThe #tru Meaning of an #un Experience
I am embarrassed to say that I actually told people that I would be a track “leader” at the #truNewYork unconference on May 18th. The truth is that the normal process for leading a track in one of Bill...
View ArticleReal Networking Means Turning Hashtags into Real People
Every time I meet one of my social media heroes in real life there is always a short Wayne’s World moment when I have to resist the temptation to bow down to my rock star friend and shout “We’re not...
View ArticleSmart Networking Techniques
It is always easier to see the negatives than the positives. When we see someone using trickery and deception we know that is not networking. One criticism heard about using networking in a job search...
View ArticleNetworking for Baboons and the Rest of Us
Dr. Robin Dunbar is a British anthropologist who wrote his PhD dissertation on the social organization of the gelada baboon. Known today as an expert in primate behavior, he devised a correlation...
View ArticleDo Not Blow Your Nodes
A big mistake in thinking conceptually about social networking is overlooking the fact that it is in a multidimensional space. Linear thinking will almost always produce a limited picture of contact...
View ArticleMeasuring Your Network
Anything worth doing is worth measuring. If you are a job seeker or individual concerned about your personal brand, measuring your impact on your network and beyond is important. If you run a business,...
View ArticleReviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Social Networking Revisited
In a recent Twitter chat discussing the importance of networking in a job search, the usual tips and tricks were shared with participants. The intended audience for these sessions is the group of...
View ArticleDanger of the Fringe
The dark-side fringe people never live in the shadows where nobody can see them. Instead, they are not only visible, but generally advertise their presence very noisily. They are hard to miss, but...
View ArticlePrehistoric Job Searching
Considering what we hypothesized about Recruiting Caveman Style, the Paleolithic Era humans looking for a way out of the dangers of hunting and the boredom of farming probably began thinking about the...
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