The Best Interview Advice You’ll Ever Read

As a HR professional, I get inundated with questions about interviews. Most of their questions are pretty standard ones and fall along these lines:

• How do I answer the “Greatest strength/weakness” question? (Be honest, focus on a…

Generation Envy

How petulant Generation Y haters can be worse than the “Gen Y is Better” crowd.

It is a sunny day and I am inside. While I long for the outdoors, I am reminded that the flexibility to let me go outside and play is embedded in my GDNA (that’s short for Generational DNA). Ah…

Why You Hate HR And How To Fix It

The US election is thankfully coming to a close. Is there anyone who is disappointed that it is…

Let’s All Hold Hands and Sing Kumbaya

My first exposure to any sort of serious form of diversity training started at the university I went to. I was on a university diversity committee, somehow suckered into the role by my boss at the time. I walked into the room and, not surprisingly, nobody looked…

What Tom Brady Taught Me About Succession Planning

So I was watching the NFL opening weekend and annoying my wife by not taking it off of football coverage the entire day. It was a terrible weekend for sports in case you were wondering. First of all, my alma mater Washington State University…

It Doesn’t Take Courage To Stand Up For Your Beliefs

One thing I’ve never understood about many human resource professionals is how much we pat each other on the back for doing things that should be standard practice. Oh, so you’re actually standing up to your peers and saying they have to…

Why I’m Not An Idealist In Politics Or HR

I don’t do politics blogging well anymore and I am a big proponent of sticking with what you do best. That being said, being an ex-politics junkie means old habits break very slowly. And by slowly, I mean not at all. So when I thought of a great parallel in…

How To Be An Effective Loser

One of the unique things about HR is our exposure to a lot of losers.

Hold on now, let me pull that back. I already started this post in the hole. I am going to have to dig myself out and quick before you go off to other posts that praise everything you…