Friday, November 14, 2008
10:00 to 11:30
North Dallas/Plano Career Focus Group
Christ United Methodist Church, Plano
Coit and Parker, Room N156
Free - Open to the public
November, 2008
Date: TBA
10:00 am to 12:00 noon
Drake/Beam/Morin (DBM)
Oxy Building, LBJ and the tollroad
Free - For DBM Clients and Limited guests
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Evening presentation, Time DBA
Jewish Family Service
5402 Arapaho Road at Montfort
Free - Open to the public, Limited Seating
by Mitch Byers :: Monday, July 14, 2008 :: posted in Selection & Hiring
Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Blink, was the first speaker at the May 2008 New Yorker Conference. “Stories from the near future” was the theme of the two-day conference. Albeit condensed, here are his words and my comments from his talk regarding the “challenge of hiring in the modern world.”[More…]
by Mitch Byers :: Friday, July 11, 2008 :: posted in Selection & Hiring
Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Blink, was the first speaker at the May 2008 New Yorker Conference. “Stories from the near future” was the theme of the two-day conference. Albeit condensed, here are his words and my comments from his talk regarding the “challenge of hiring in the modern world.”[More…]
by Mitch Byers :: Monday, May 19, 2008 :: posted in Interviewing to Win, Selection & Hiring, News & Events, Enhancing Your Career
A recent article from Dr. John Sullivan discusses up an emerging trend – speed interviewing. Speed Interviewing takes its name from the once popular, Speed Dating. Speed Interviewing severely compresses the interviewing process. Compare cooking popcorn the old fashion way - heating up oil in a deep pan and adding a shallow layer of popcorn to today’s fast and easy microwave popcorn. The popcorn today is ready in jiffy with no mess or cleanup. Speed interviewing hopes to achieve the same results: faster and easier without all the messy protocols of a traditional interview. The slimmed down version is making inroads because [More…]by Mitch Byers :: Saturday, February 16, 2008 :: posted in Selection & Hiring, Enhancing Your Career
The Workplace Visions publication discusses the mismatch of business needs and lack of available skills of young people currently entering the workforce. The recent Society of Human Resource Management publication highlights and how this mismatch will impact the challenges on managing the emerging workforce. Their research indicates “a staggering 94% of human resource professionals do not feel that their workforce is adequately prepared to meet the future goals of their organization.” [More…]by Mitch Byers :: Sunday, January 13, 2008 :: posted in Interviewing to Win, Selection & Hiring, Enhancing Your Career
People in job transition often lament that looking for a job is a full-time job. Activities such as company research, network meetings, job fairs, connecting with recruiters, meeting company insiders for coffee, scrolling the job boards and preparing for the interview keeps you moving forward towards the end goal, landing a new position. During your job transition, you will have multiple conversations with dozens of people. Part of your “full-time job” should be to organize and track each of your contacts. Tracking your job transition contacts has several benefits: [More…]by Mitch Byers :: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 :: posted in Selection & Hiring
The last dozen or so talks have focused on common job competencies and how to match your top competencies against the job description. While the information has been popular, tomorrow I am going to try something different. Recently, I have been working on a new ebook tentatively entitled, "A Dozen Strategies to Conquer Sticky Interview Questions." Tomorrow's session is an hour and my goal is to share at least 4 of the strategies with the students at Remington College. These are new graduates ready to conquer the world. I hope the information will be their swords and shields in their next job interview.
by Mitch Byers :: Thursday, August 3, 2006 :: posted in Selection & Hiring
Ed Davis reminds us the recruiters and HR Departments "have lead hiring managers to believe that recruiting talent is a function of HR. It’s not! It’s quite simply one of the most important activities leaders do." In his article The Role of the Hiring Manager in Recruiting, Ed presents seven key factors for highly effective hiring managers. [More…]by Mitch Byers :: Sunday, July 30, 2006 :: posted in Selection & Hiring
A new acquaintance of mine, Tony Cinello, President of Anthony Andrew, LLC. suggested the book "Topgrading" by Bradford D. Smart. Smart defines Topgrading as filling every position in the organization with an A-player, at the appropriate compensation level. [More…]by Mitch Byers :: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 :: posted in Selection & Hiring
The previous post was loosely organized around original thought, training, and effective communications. Gerry Grispin has a bag full of original thoughts. In his Of Job Jars and Hi-Pot, he shares his experience of engaging a group of recruiters into a discussion of metrics, dashboards, and retention. [More…]by Mitch Byers :: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 :: posted in Selection & Hiring
Anthony J raises an interesting trend in interviewing, called Speed Interviewing that was noted in Canadian Business. [More…]by Mitch Byers :: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 :: posted in Selection & Hiring
Scott Axel asks an honest question, Are there any original thoughts out there? Scott laments that his goal is to "take at least one new idea way with me from every training seesion/book chapter/outline course that I do." [More…]