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Hiring for Your Team, One Day Workshop in Sweden
I will be at Let’s Test the week of May 20. I am offering a version of my new hiring workshop, Hiring For Your Team: Culture Trumps (Technical) Skills. If you will be at Let’s Test and you have not … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, hiring decision, Hiring Geeks That Fit, workshop
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A Novel Idea: Hire the Unemployed
Did you read The Jobless Trap? In it, Paul Krugman asserts we are creating an underclass of long-term unemployed. This is what really stood out for me: This could happen because their work skills atrophy, but a more likely reason … Continue reading
Posted in hiring strategy
Tagged age, attractive job, culture, discrimination, experience, hiring decision, Hiring Geeks That Fit
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The Company Doesn’t Love You
I’m rearchitecting Manage Your Job Search (again). One of the things I’m doing is working on the introduction, explaining to people why they need to consider agile and lean as a system in which to work on their job hunt/job … Continue reading
What Scrum Master Are You Hiring Posted
I have another article posted on InfoQ: What Scrum Master Are You Hiring? I’ve noticed that many organizations are calling certain positions Scrum Masters, and they might be Scrum Masters, but to me, they are anything but. You need to … Continue reading
Decoding Culture
After I posted my culture series for job hunters, I saw What Your Culture Really Says. (Hat-tip to Andy Lester who pointed me to it.) This is critical: Culture is not about the furniture in your office. It is not … Continue reading
What Culture Do You Want in a New Job? Part 3
In Part 1, you thought about your culture, and built your lists. In part 2, you developed your questions, and thought about the data you wanted to gather. You started with closed or behavior-description questions, so you had a place … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Job Search
Tagged cultural fit, culture, job hunt, Manage Your Job Search
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What Culture Do You Want in a New Job? Part 2
You have your lists from What Culture Do You Want in a New Job, Part 1. That means you have six lists: Three things you enjoyed talking about at work Three things you shook your head about, or made you … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Job Search
Tagged cultural fit, culture, job hunt, Manage Your Job Search
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What Culture Do You Want in a New Job? Part 1
One of the things I suggest in Manage Your Job Search is to think about your culture when or before you start interviewing. How do you do that? An organization’s culture is made of these three things: What’s okay to … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Job Search
Tagged cultural fit, culture, job hunt, Manage Your Job Search
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Project Culture Reflects Management Culture
I have a post, What’s the Culture on Your Project? that discusses the project issues of the Romney campaign. But there is a deeper issue. If you read the comments in The Romney Campaign was a Consultant Con Job, there … Continue reading
Posted in Hiring Geeks That Fit
Tagged cultural fit, culture, hiring strategy, job analysis, job description
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Series on Cultural Fit Posted
I wrote a series on cultural fit for my Pragmatic Manager email newsletter. In reverse order they were: How Do We Treat Each Other? What Does Your Organization Reward? What is Okay for You to Discuss? Those are the three … Continue reading
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Tagged cultural fit, culture, email newsletter, hiring, project management
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