Upgrading talent

Downturns place companies’ talent strategies at risk. As deteriorating performance forces increasingly aggressive head count reductions, it’s easy to lose valuable contributors inadvertently, damage morale or the company’s external reputation among potential employees, or drop the ball on important training and staff-development programs. But there is a better way. By emphasizing talent in cost-cutting efforts, employers can intelligently strengthen the value proposition they offer current and potential employees and position themselves strongly for growth when economic

Positioning the Possibilities

People who have advanced degrees are everywhere. Anyone who has spent time recruiting knows that a master’s degree or PhD does not bestow any level of common sense or intelligence. Despite what schools would like us to believe, the degree, by itself, will not get you a job if you haven’t found another way to convince the company of your potential. Instead, you have to dig into your experience and come up with the stories that will get a hiring manager to think