Job hunting is the worst. It’s painful, stressful, and often embarrassing, and no one likes it. Fortunately, most people don’t do it more than every few years. While that is good, it also means that most people don’t have the experience necessary to be an expert in job
Recently, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced new enforcement goals. If adopted, they will affect employers’ online application processes and numerous other areas of recruiting. The EEOC, of course, has many guidelines, but it cannot focus all attention on all guidelines at all times, so the agency explains that “periodically
“I got fired by HR. My manager says he doesn’t even know why I got fired.” Statements like this are annoying. It’s as if there are evil HR ladies (ahem) lurking around corners, just waiting to terminate people. That’s not how it happens. Who has the final decision-making
I try to handle employee problems face-to-face and one-on-one. That’s what I was always taught — praise in public, punish in private. But the problem with this is that each of my employees feels singled out for their bad behavior. In their eyes, their coworkers never “get in
Let’s face it, a lot of life can feel like Groundhogs Day (if you subscribe to the Bill Murray theory of the day). We do the same things over and over, and it can get repetitive. Especially in HR–while there are always unexpected things there is a lot
Google, along with other big tech companies, chose to use email to notify employees that they were terminated. As I noted last week, this is the wrong way to terminate people, and your employees deserve better. But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this impersonal form of termination is a
Repackaging old ideas is easy and that is basically what AI does. As much as we talk about it being artificial intelligence, it’s really only spitting out what others have written before. This is not to say it’s not incredibly helpful. For instance, in generating suggestions for interview
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai just laid off a bunch of employees at Google, with plans to lay off more–bringing the total to 12,000 roles. Pichai sent the following email to staff (emphasis added): I have some difficult news to share. We’ve decided to reduce our workforce by approximately 12,000 roles. We’ve
It may feel like the current rash of tech layoffs started with Twitter, but they did not. Twitter was just loud about it. Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement firm, track terminations, and in 2022 tech led the way, with 97,171 job cuts, up 649% from 2021. So Twitter’s 3,000
I sat down with Traci Scherk at Talent Optimization about mentoring! It was a fun conversation. You can learn a bit about using improv comedy to do mentoring and leadership training. Hop over and take a listen here: Mentoring with Impact with Suzanne Lucas
