Allow me to share with you a story about an email I received out of the blue from someone I have never met or done business with...but would one day certainly be open to meeting. We all receive copious amounts of email a day, alas much of it is spam or material that in our personal opinions may as well be spam. So, at the end of my days I tend to go through a major delete and purge mode of my inbox and…

One key to nonstop growth is to go where the money is. This week’s report shows you the top 25 industries with the highest potential demand for staffing and recruiting services.

The first numerical column shows the number of positions added in the past 60 days. The second displays the increase or decrease compared to last year at this time.…

It's funny how many of us spend more time learning how to play a video game or to hit a 7-iron than we do on taking our job search or productivity to the next level.

When we play games we compete and often play with a passion and intensity that drive us to get better and better. When we play with our buddies we can stay up all night but when we have nothing to do we can fall asleep by…

I am normally used to reading about the fabulous new updates on Google’s Blog and how they added this or made better that for searching. But lately I am so fed up with Google making my search life miserable. Actually, sad, hurt and frustrated. I mean its one thing to deal with my 6 year old twins saying no to everything (6.5 to be precise, lest they spot mommy saying this on the big WWW) but now even Google? What’s up? I am in no mood to be sorry or…

Last week, I was able to attend RecruitFest. It was a great event with a lot of interesting topics and conversations but one that stood out was the session “The Candidate Bill of Rights” (video should be up soon at www.recruitfest.com) This session included the some great panelists from Gerry Crispin (…

In a recent HR magazine called “Network” that is distributed through Alberta there was a story posted about an interview appointment gone wrong. I had to read the story about three times over before I could believe what I read. My question is, have candidates really degraded to this level of foolishness?

Story…

A couple of weeks ago I challenged you, as a Business Leader, to evaluate if your company was "In Demand" through the example of Supply & Demand that you learned in ECO 101. This week,…

“What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” – Henry David Thoreau

Saturday marked what would have been the 70th birthday celebration for one of the most inspirational poets of the 20th Century, John Lennon. A man who led a revolt, a revolt for peace around the world. Tolerance

and acceptance are sometimes the most simple yet most difficult things

to achieve. John believed in both. He united…

One of my best friends in High School was King Davis and his mom Shirley used to always tell us to “Act like ya been somewhere”. We never really understood what the she meant and it wouldn’t have made a difference, I mean, after all we were teenagers and we knew “EVERYTHING”. Well with age comes wisdom and, now that I’m old and busted, Shirley’s words…