Do people ever offer you advice? How valuable is it when you request it? When unsolicited? Earlier this week I heard from an entrepreneur – he had an idea, started a company, and successfully sold it in four years. He would make a change if he did another start-up: during the planning for the start-up,Read… Read more »
Ahhh GPS. Life and navigation is so much easier now. Many a time this little Garmin monster has talked me through new subdivisions, around highway construction and straight to that dreaded conference. But here’s a story of the GPS that talked too much. It’s a story that was shared with me; and worth repeating here.Read… Read more »
As a part of our blog series “HR and Recruiters the New Marketers“, I want to share practical ways HR and recruiting professionals can put real marketing concepts to work to improve corporate recruiting programs right now. Now, I am not advising everyone to run out and spend tens of thousands of dollars on full-blownRead… Read more »
Amanda would be well advised not to make a career in government because Congress wants to eliminate the FERS retirement system and reduce it to just a 401 k plan and social security… Furthermore, the super committee in Congress appears to be failing in its mission of reducing the debt and deficit. So, if thingsRead… Read more »
Dear all knowing Internet, I know its been a long time since I have last called upon your all knowing goodness, but this time I am extremely frustrated. In New York State, the public employee union I belong to rejected our new contract. As a result, many young professionals including myself have been notified thatRead… Read more »
Dear all knowing Internet, It has happened to all of us. We do the work and somebody takes the credit. In one such instance, I worked with my supervisor at the time on a response to a national technology survey on behalf of my state. When we get the results we and it turns outRead… Read more »
I was scrolling around the WWW and came across a great blog titled The Art of Manliness. Besides providing great tips on all things manly…from opening doors, to 5 great things to do with a rotisserie chicken…There was a post about being able to say “no”. As a young professional, I find it very hardRead… Read more »
These questions were crowd sourced at the Gov Up on February 10, 2011. Here is what Young Government Leaders had to ask Dr. Nayak and Mr. Rothwell; and their candid remarks.
The Federal Resume Toolboxä is not a book per se, but rather a collection of brief, concise articles that contain the essential information you need to rebuild your resume so that it grabs the attention of the HR Specialist and tells that person that you are most definitely qualified for the position. Make no mistakeRead… Read more »
If you are like most other people that has applied for federal employment, you submitted your resume package for several government positions and may have got word back that you did not qualify – or in most cases, you did not hear anything. Unlike the private sector in which the purpose of a resume isRead… Read more »