Harvard’s alumni network is legendary. I have colleagues over 50 who’ve never looked for a job outside their Harvard network. But how many of us managed to attend or graduate from Harvard? Not that many, I suspect. On the other hand, many of us have worked for great companies—or at least worked with great people.
I’ve been working with more and more senior managers (and executive recruiters), helping them assess their CxO candidates (CEO, CIO, CTO, Senior VPs, you name it). By the time someone’s made it to the senior management level, they know how to make themselves sound good, so you can’t ask the strength/weakness question, even if you
Over at Employment Digest, there’s a post called The top 10 ways to bomb a job interview, aimed at candidates. But hiring managers and HR folks can be just as likely to bomb an interview. Here are my favorite ways: Change your toddler’s diaper while interviewing a candidate. Yes, this happened to me early in
There are several questioning comments on my post Testing is Not a Service: What do I mean by testing and how do I reconcile my statement with the context-driven school of testing? Let me clarify what I mean by service first. The way the participants were discussing testing as a service, they meant a common
I’m doing a webinar Thursday, May 17 for Kennedy. See Using Behavior Description Questions in Phone Screens. I am expecting to take questions and help people convert their essential technical skill, non-technical skill, and elimination questions into behavior-description questions. I hope you decide to join me. Labels: phone screen, webinar
I taught a one-day workshop at StarEast yesterday with Esther. I was astonished at the number of test managers who think testing is a service. Effective testing is not a service. Effective testing is an integral part of development. When people–especially senior management–consider testing a service, there are inevitable consequences: Testers multitask between several
From 1974-2002, Jerry Weinberg, taught Problem Solving Leadership. Jerry thought he was done teaching in 2002, but is co-teaching PSL again with Esther and me June 24-29, 2007 in Albuquerque, NM. Want more information? Send me an email.
I am happy to report that Manage It! is at the printer, both the book and the cover. We’re looking sometime in June as a ship date. Just thought you’d want to know 🙂 Labels: Manage It, project management
George Dinwiddie pointed me to this great column, Fired With Enthusiasm. I have a talk that I’ve given at a bunch of Software Development conferences, called “Successful Software Management: X Lessons Learned,” where X started at 8, and is now up to 16. Lesson # 11 is “Fire People Who Can’t Do the Work.” I
I’m one of the folks writing a monthly column over at Recruitingtrends.com. My first column is Exploiting Your Alumni Network.