Veteran’s Day is barely a holiday in the US, except as a retail sales gimmick. But why should we expect this to be different? Fewer than 2% of us have ever served in the military. And since we moved away from the draft to an all-volunteer service, those who do serve come from a smaller [...]
Human resources for Small Business
Melanie Spring shares more lessons learned on hiring well.
Melanie Spring shares lessons learned on hiring well; great advice for women entrepreneurs.
Asking job candidates to tell you stories is the best way to learn how they will react in certain situations.
4 Steps To Hiring Your First Employee
Women Grow Business contributor Patricia Frame interviews Sharon Armstrong on the right way to handle performance management as well as authorship.
Hiring, from the first team members to the growing company, is a challenge to every entrepreneur. And most have a string of failures along the way. So how do you beat the odds? Today’s interview is with Bob Corlett, the founder of Staffing Advisors. Bob sees the problems and frustrations of entrepreneurs and small organization executives regularly. [...]
For Women Grow Business, I interviewed Peter Weddle (who is “…filled with ingenious ideas” per The Washington Post). He is a serial entrepreneur with terrific expertise in recruiting and human capital issues. While we discussed a wide range of trends in recruiting and employment for 2010 and this coming decade, his primary point for smaller [...]
I started CareerCup to solve one part of software engineering interviews: preparation. Candidates who are interviewing with Microsoft, Google, Amazon, or other companies are historically under-prepared and consequently struggle to get hired. This hurts not only the candidates, but companies as well who can’t distinguish between bad candidates and poorly prepared candidates. After launching CareerCup’s [...]
When my niece was quite small -I took her to the Smithsonian’s Natural History museum. At the end of our visit she announced, as only a 4 year old can, that it had been ‘three many funs’. And then patiently she explained to me that meant she had learned lots of new things, interesting and [...]
