Job interviews are the business-world’s equivalent of speed dating. Based on a brief conversation, hiring managers are supposed to select the candidate with whom they expect to have a long-term relationship of forty or fifty … months. The employer is expected to make a binding commitment to this person until death, promotion, mandatory [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘business’
08/15/2009
Meeting of the Bored
Things sure have come a long way since the Dark Ages. A few centuries ago we’d all have been living in a kingdom where any autocrat could summon all of the peasants into the castle for a meeting at a whim. At the same time, if two of the local knights had a [...]
05/23/2009
Domestic Policy
You have to pity the modern American business leaders. Right in the middle of the economic equivalent of the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 they have to spend all day, every day focusing on their core competencies to design customer-centric win-win solutions while going forward to grab the low-hanging fruit by producing a [...]
05/09/2009
Married To Your Job
I’m ashamed to admit it, but in college I played the field — a lot — with many different majors. At first I was young and idealistic and thought my future lay in Computer Engineering. That dream soured when I discovered that Computer Engineers had to understand complicated mathematics like trigonometry, calculus, and [...]
03/07/2009
Too Many Clowns
The problem with most jobs is that they involve actual work which is tedious and difficult and dull. That’s why they have to pay you to do your job. Even without understanding the details, small children realize that most adult careers have all of the dynamism and excitement of mandatory nap time. [...]
