You’ve probably heard of the Ugly American. It’s a phrase commonly used to describe loud, rude, arrogant Americans abroad. These are the types of people who get upset when the corner ice cream stand doesn’t accept dollars and yell at people to speak English already, even though they are in
Paul Bogaards is an EVP, Director, Public Relations, Knopf Doubleday, a publishing company. He’s looking to hire a publicist, and so he wrote what looks like an extremely creative job posting and published on Tumblr (not, as he says, on the official Knopf job’s page). It’s brilliant. It begins like this: The
Being a cheerleader is hard work and glamorous and you can bet that any woman that makes it that far figured out long ago how to handle tampon usage and the right shaving techniques, but the NFL doesn’t think so. The New York Times reviewed the handbooks for seven
My name is Suzanne and I’m a podcast addict. Sadly, I don’t have enough hours in the day to listen to every podcast that I want to listen to, but I listen to enough to have noticed a very weird phenomenon: Podcasters are crazy collaborative and supportive of
Would you hire an employee that demanded a salary higher than your CEO’s salary? What if that was 70 percent more? Smartsheet did just that, when it poached Gene Farrell from Amazon, had to fight a legal battle over a non-compete to do that, and now pays him $2.7 million,
A French waiter, working in Canada was fired for being “aggressive, rude and disrespectful.” That sounds like a great reason to fire a waiter. But Guillaume Rey filed a complaint saying that he was really fired for being French, and that’s just how French people are. He doesn’t claim that he
Other people discriminate on the basis or age, sex, national origin, or even silly things such as what university they attended or whether they ask for soda or pop. You don’t. You always look for the best candidate, and that’s that. Well, it’s not. You suffer from unconscious bias, and
There is often a tenuous relationship between recruiters and job seekers, which is funny because they need each other to be successful. But, they drive each other nuts and that came out to be blatantly obvious when a recruiter posted his pet-peeves about candidates and the candidates responded. Ciaran
Did you start your career at McDonald’s? Chances are more than a few of you did, and those that didn’t may have worked for another business that operated on the franchise model. How the franchise model works is that a person or group buys the rights to open a restaurant
I had the envied opportunity to see Hamilton in London this weekend, and while the play itself was a masterpiece, I couldn’t get out of Evil HR Lady mode. So many management lessons stood out to me, so I just had to share. Your ensemble makes or breaks you. I had no doubt
