Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Aaron The Great
….What we have learned from studying hundreds of America’s best companies and conducting interviews with their top leaders is that productive people play a large part in making these organizations go. These companies make the job look easy because their management of people is part of a well-executed plan.
Our survey included more than 1,600 publicly traded U.S. companies and helped reveal the practices that enable them to out-produce their colleagues down the street or across the country. Here are five common traits of America’s best organizations:
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Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Aaron The Great
When we talk of hiring someone, we immediately fall back to the “traditional” hiring criteria: Experience (how good the resume is), Intelligence (where a person got their degree and how many degrees) and Will Power (grit, determination, the “will” to succeed). We get most of this information from a resume that was most likely [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Aaron The Great
I received an e-mail from a nice person in Tulsa, OK asking for advice. Here is a brief portion of her e-mail:
“As a person that is currently unemployed…. I have been on numerous interviews and unfortunately for me, I have not only been more educated and had more experience than the interviewer, (H.R. or [...]
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