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Keep Your Resume Short

A capable senior manager has been looking for a new job for a couple of months. He’s a capable guy, and although two months isn’t that long, I was surprised that he’s had no nibbles.Then I saw his resume. His resume was 5 pages long, and had too much detail to read quickly. It also […]

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Is Your Hiring Strategy Creating a Mono-Culture?

George Dinwiddie pointed me this post, I got rejected by Google – woe is me. Read through the comments; they are as illuminating as the post. Here’s the stated Google hiring strategy, Hiring: The Lake Wobegon Strategy. I don’t see Google’s stated practice of hiring above the mean as congruent with what’s happening in practice.

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Is the Hiring Crunch Headed Your Way?

On my recent trip to NZ and AU (to speak about project management), I had some informal conversations with people who could not find enough people for their projects.From my non-scientific survey, it appears that we have started a technical hiring crunch (not enough candidates for positions). Consider people you might not have considered before:

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