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Blog Post: What Can You Learn From A Terrorist? [Part 2 of 4: Navarro]: After hearing Joe Navarro speak and then reading his book…; Added by Jonathan D. Davis at 3:04pm on October 26, 2010

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Blog Post: Recruiting Out of State Talent Successfully: It is interesting to listen when companies complain they have difficulty attracting candidates from out of state. With a little research, a consultant may easily determine why they are…; Added by Bill Humbert at 12:07pm on January 24, 2012

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Blog Post: Representation Of Men: How It Can Affect A Career: The representation of women in media is a hot topic today. Discourses on gender stereotypes are making us question the fair portrayal of women, who are often perceived as overly sexualised,…; Added by Adam Johnson at 10:08am on April 21, 2022

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Comment on: Topic 'Generational Con Man': load of crap that is in the toughest way possible. My father started prepping me for college when I was the ripe age of 10. Yes 10. I clearly remember him telling me I had to get good grades in school then so I could get into a good college and from their grab a great career and be on my way to a bright future! So that's what I did. I was in honors and advanced placement classes through high school. I got into a good college, double majored in English Literature and English Writing, graduated with a high GPA, even studies Shakespeare and Seventeenth Century Literature at Oxford University through a study abroad program. I thought I did everything right. Then I got out into the real world. The real world is a savage beast. I remember applying and interviewing for jobs. To my surprise, less than half of the companies I replied to called me back about a job. The interviews I did have mostly resulted in a: "Thank you for your application. Unfortunately at this time we do not feel you have the experience required for this position. Go suck an egg." That's for those companies that ever even bothered to send me a rejection letter. All I wanted was a job copy editing for a newspaper. I double majored in English! I studied at Oxford! What the hell was happening? The ever haunting post-graduate Catch-22 of requiring experience that you'll never get until someone gives you a chance and hires you for a job was kicking the life out of me. I eventually took a low paying Project Management role (actually started as a personal assistant to the owner of a small sign and lighting maintenance company--went through all that education to NOT become someone's secretary and there I was, filing, copying, and doing data entry) where the management preyed on young women with little education or options and had them working their fingers to the bone for $13/hr. Hell, I could have saved myself the $25k in student loan debt and gotten that job. It was a whirlwind from there. I did everything I could to pull myself up by the boot straps. I made some bad career decisions, then some stupid life decisions and here I am 5 years later trying like hell to make a career for myself. Luckily for me, I receive fantastic advice and support from my grandmother. She's in her seventies now. She left her abusive, alcoholic husband when my dad was only 8 and worked a full-time job and kicked her own arse to provide for herself and her son. Grandma Val had the support of her late mother, my Nanny, who pulled herself up by her bootsraps when her husband tragically died while she still had young children and she went on to be a cook in some of Philadelphia's premiere restaraunts. I am proud of my legacy and grateful for the lessons of the generations before me. I have been lucky to have those two strong women in my life. I spent many wonderful weekends in their beautiful home in a quiet suburban neighborhood. They taught me how to garden, how to cook, how to appreciate what you have, how to save money, how to treat people with respect, and how to work hard and be the best person you can be. I learned that life is what you make of it. I could feel sorry for myself and my generation for the hardships we have to endure but I don't. Upon close inspection I've come to realize that everyone throughout time has to fight battles and so will I. I'll win some, I'll lose some. I'll probably lose more than I'll win. However, at the end of the day, no matter what my social status is, no matter where I am in my career, I am happy with myself because I know the true value of life. I can seed a garden, I can make a beautiful Sunday dinner, I listen to my son and enjoy my time with him, I got to study at Oxford, I know some poetry by heart, I appreciate what I have, and I never give up. So you see, in life, throughout the generations, there are sniveling brats with a sense of self-entitlement and there are those who want nothing more than to make their way themselves, who don't expect handouts and just want a chance. Somehow very few people saw that desire in me or maybe just didn't care. Interviews are not the best forum to really understand what a person is made of. In any case, the world keeps spinning. There will always be companies looking to exploit people like me who are looking for an opportunity but those companies won't go far. Their turn-over is high, their training is crap, they have outdated systems of metrics, and they don't really care about anyone's career. They just want someone to make them money now. Kind of like how banks and credit companies used to hand out sub-prime loans like Halloween candy. They looked great on paper 10 years ago. Now look where they are... Sandra McCartt said:Thanks Jen,Good thoughts, i thought your response about Woodstock was funny and you were being your cute , kick ass self. So was not being patronizing. A tongue in cheek response if you will.I know you are working your tail off and fighting something that you can't do anything about at this point because you are in this game at the worst possible time any young recruiter could ever try and break into it.We so tend to lump everyone in the basket of generational identification. I do know a lot of GenXY who have come to the party as you have. Just as we did when we were young and thought we could change the world. I don't think we have to be self-deprecating because i think that is also self serving to play that game in order to convince your generation to take a job that none of our own generation would take.I was your age when the original Woodstock took place in 1969. According to my calcs Mark would have been in about the 8th grade of maybe the 9th so he probably didn't make it to Woodstock. I wasn't going to go do drugs in the dirt then either because i thought it was trashy then and i think it's trashy now. And like yourself, i had kids to take care of , school and a job. It's always easy to blame parents and we deserve some of that just as ours did for convincing us that it was failure if we did something horrible like get a divorce for any reason or not stay on a job for 25 years until we got the gold watch. We were however perhaps a little more equipped to handle failure because anything that happened to us was our fault no matter what it was. As a result of that attitude of "anything that happens to you that's bad is your fault". We reversed it and wanted our kids to grow up without the feeling that everything was their fault and the pendulum went too far the other direction. Then we dumped you out on the street with no survival skills because we tried to make life easier for you. Now we bitch because of the sense of entitlement and the shock of reality has thrown your generation into a tailspin. They are scared and pissed off and don't understand why all the stuff they were told is not working.We convinced you that all you had to do was get an education and the world would be your oyster. We forgot to give you the chance to fall down and get up by yourself when it was the little things, now we expect you to jump out there and be worldly wise, self reliant and as savvy as those of us with battle scars.That's why we need to be supportive and informative not self deprecating and manipulative to get you into situations where we set you up for failure then blame you for reacting to the message that we sent you . Your generation is taking it on the chin when it really counts. And you are correct ,entitlement is a learned behavior. Some of the most "i am entitled "people i work with are baby boomers who were nasty hippies then, are aging whining hippies now. They dropped out, turned on, protested and are still doing it. Their drug of choice was booze and it still is. Those little bottles on airplanes ya know........ …; Added by See_Jane_Recruit at 12:53pm on May 12, 2009

Blog Post: The Wide Open Controversy of Criminal Records and Employment Background Checks: There is an ongoing controversy about…; Added by Gordon Basichis at 6:38pm on September 15, 2010

Blog Post: Top 3 Technologies Used at a Recruitment Fair You Should Know About: Recruitment fairs have always been one of the most effective solutions for job seekers and recruiters throughout the years. When our world is getting more digital, recruitment fair planners must…; Added by Ngan Pham at 9:30pm on October 5, 2021