Tricks of the Trade

ERE Article: Direct-Dial Directories: How to Research Staff via Phone Numbers



THAT will be our class subject today (T, Mar 31) - how to "listen" for (and interpret) the nuances in research like that. Read the article (it's short!) and then come to class at noon EST to discuss the variegated ways building out a company's… Continue

Hi,

Thursday’s MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Class Chat was a great success! We had about twenty people show up on pretty short notice including Shally Steckerl and Glenn Gutmacher to give us some great advice regarding LinkedIn’s most recent (and some hints at coming!) changes. You can read through the Class Log here.



There's some great new content posted on the MagicMethod site that you might find interesting. Among… Continue

ERE has been so kind as to publish one of my how-to's:

Many sourcing expeditions are doomed to failure because the sourcer “assumes” they have found what the customer wants. The fact is, in these instances, the sourcer hasn’t asked enough questions of the customer on the front end of the process to know what the customer wants. This is because they do not possess the depth of experience in sourcing to know what questions to… Continue

Cities in the Pacific Northwest and Texas have the best employment outlook for April through June, while cities in the the Southeast have the weakest, according to the study. More… Continue

There was a developer from ning

Who created a chat box that could sing

But then he futzed with the code

And the problems did explode

It's now like a bird with clipped wings. ~ Steve Levy (RBC Poet Laureate)



Suggestions to ning to fix the dang thing:

REINSTALL the copy and paste.

REMOVE the double spacing.

MAKE the chat history LONGER - as it is it goes abt 15 mins on an active chat -… Continue

The anonymous comment on the Web site RateMDs.com was unsparing: "Very unhelpful, arrogant," it said of a doctor. "Did not listen and cut me off, seemed much too happy to have power (and abuse it!) over suffering people." Such reviews are becoming more common as consumer ratings services like Zagat's and Angie's List expand beyond restaurants and plumbers to medical care, and some doctors are fighting back.



They're asking patients to agree to what amounts to a gag order that bars… Continue