Most bullshit job search term ever: “Overqualified”

Overqualified Is Job Search BS

Wrote this post a while ago, then re-purposed it on LinkedIn over the weekend. Did OK there (maybe 1,000 views and a handful of comments) and one of the comments jumped out to me first. It was about the whole… Continue Reading →

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Experience shouldn’t matter in job search, but boy … does it ever.

Experience Shouldn't Matter For Jobs, But It Does

Got that video from the Stanford Business School Insights page, and notably this post. Here’s essentially what a couple of researchers did/found: Along with University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Camelia Kuhnen (who earned her PhD at Stanford GSB),… Continue Reading →

Maybe we need to focus less on “professionalism”

Let's abandon professionalism

We mostly use it as a way to keep certain people down anyway. Continue Reading →

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This one quote explains why “talent strategy” is a joke

Talent Strategy Is A Myth

I’ve been pretty vocal since I started writing this blog about how the whole concept of “talent strategy” — at least as upsold by executives — is kind of a farce. It all started when I got rejected for a… Continue Reading →

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On the hiring vs. efficiency schism

CEOs want growth but also efficiency

What I am about to write is by no means scientific. I don’t have a lot of facts to back it up or anything. It’s mostly anecdotal from a series of places I’ve worked. Apologies in advance that this isn’t… Continue Reading →

Your LinkedIn job title is ridiculous.

Ridiculous LinkedIn Job Titles

You’re not an “Analytics Sensei.” That sounds preposterous. Continue Reading →

Only 50 percent of people are clear about what’s expected of them at work. Awkward.

No one understands expectations at work

I got that stat from here, which is in turn from here. This doesn’t really surprise me. Let me give you an example from a job I had a couple of years ago. The marketing team here had this basic… Continue Reading →

WTF? Average CMO tenure is only 48 months? 23 percent of top jobs are open annually?

Marketing Department and CMO Churn

Here’s an article with a ton of buzzwords that reads like a catalog of CMOs who have been promoted in recent years; it’s actually really hard to get through without gagging or trying to smash your computer into 48 pieces… Continue Reading →