Where potential employees are concerned, obviously skills are important. Yet we’ve all seen fabulously talented individuals become a team that was far less than the sum of its parts.
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Over the last couple years, there have been many posts written about companies using Instagram as a marketing tool to raise brand awareness, drive leads, even increase in-store or online sales.
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If your business is growing, you’re probably excited by the opportunities you’ve created for new employees. But finding those hires is no cakewalk. That’s why you might want to consider hiring a third-party recruiter. With an expert’s help, you can fill those open positions while continuing to focus on your core competencies and keep the business growing. Continue Reading…

LinkedIn has announced the launch a new home page for LinkedIn Recruiter, which introduces some new tools for hiring.
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Thomas Friedman recently wrote an article for the NYT titled, “Need a Job? Invent It” which addresses how our educational institutions are not teaching students the skills that value most. Continue Reading…

Today around 10% of Americans are regularly working from home, and for good reason. Many organizations today are starting to implement flexible work environments where employees can either work part time or full time from home or from a cafe, a bookstore, or anywhere else. There really is no longer a good reason to force employees to come into the office every day just so that they can be seen or monitored unless your executive team is either insecure or is on an ego trip. Continue Reading…

Too often we fall into the trap of hiring people “like us” for our small business because that’s what makes us comfortable.
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A few days back my good friend, the always inspiring and thought provoking, Dan Pontefract, put together a rather interesting blog post which is just a beautiful story of a conversation he recently had that I could see myself behave and react pretty much in the same way that he did. Continue Reading…

Last month, I said that SEO is the top skill for digital marketers. This might seem outrageous to one who has not read that post. Even to those who have read it, it might seem controversial. Many people in my Twitter stream are calling SEO the bane of the web. @markschaefer, for example, recently tweeted: “SEO is the plague of the world.” How could it be a vital skill and be such a pariah? The point of this post is to counter these objections and show how SEO skills are so vital to critical web development roles.
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A few days ago I presented on the opportunity that I believe HR professionals have to lead enterprise collaboration within their organizations. HR is the only department that really focuses on people and so those in HR are in an interesting position when it comes to collaboration. Continue Reading…