Wifey: "What do you want for dinner?" Me: "I don't know, whatever you want." or Me: "What do you want to watch?" Wifey: "Whatever. You decide." The above are fairly common occurrences in our household, and I would imagine in many others. There's been plenty of instances where we'd frustrate each other because neither of us could make a decision for such seemingly simple decisions. So why is it that I can't just make a decision around what I want to eat or watch at any given ...
Career
5 Ways To NOT Get A Response When Applying To A Job
I'm back on the hiring wagon yet again. It's amazing how much time and effort goes into the process of finding the right person for a job. What's even more amazing that even in this day and age with some much information at our fingertips, the consistent lack of quality candidates I get. Easily only 10% of those that apply are worthy of consideration. So naturally I was motivated to write another hiring post. Hopefully to be found be future candidates to help bump that number up. This time I ...
8 Life Lessons I Learned After 40
For the first few years of my blog I wrote exclusively about digital marketing, social media and technology. As I got older, and my career shifted into more of a managerial/operational mode, I didn't feel as motivated to write about those things anymore and started to want to write more about whatever inspired me. It was the only way I could find the motivation to continue writing. As I close in on the first year of my 40s, I've thought a lot about what I've learned in my life. For whatever ...
Are You These 5 Things? Then You’re Hired.
Over the past 10 years or so, my career has shifted to focus more on managing teams and operations, and a good chunk of my time has been spent on interviewing and hiring. I even do background checks and pre employment drug test like the ones at Sterling Check to be sure that I will hire the right people. I've probably interviewed thousands of people in that time, and I definitely have a good feel for folks fairly quickly in the process. I also conduct personality test for jobs to understand if a ...
5 Ways To Ensure You Don’t Get Hired
If there's one area that I have had a tremendous amount of experience around, is in the hiring process. When I was at Microsoft, there was a period of time, where that was practically all I was doing as Microsoft Advertising was in a hiring frenzy back in 2006 or so. Literally 30-40 phone, and in person interviews not to mention all the reviewing of resumes. While I certainly don't interview at that pace anymore, since joining Strategies 360/ShowPony, I've continued to have to interview as we ...
Laying Off Microsoft
A little over 5 years ago I packed up the family and we trekked from Chicagoland to Seattle for a new chapter in our lives. I had been working independently for about 5 years doing web development and internet marketing and doing well enough to support the family with my wife working. When son #2 came along, she wanted to be a stay at home mom, so I had to close up shop and find something more stable. There was no question really when Microsoft offered. Sure, moving the family from ...
