“I’m getting a really cool Breakfast Club vibe in here. Are you? Do any of you know what The Breakfast Club is?” Most of the high school kids sitting with us in the circle nodded, some even smiled knowingly. Right on, I thought. Except the cast in this real-life version included two classes of well-behaved [...]
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The Breakfast Club Career Panel
Posted: 6th April 2012 by Kevin W. Grossman in Career Management, Emotional Intelligence, Human Resources, Leadership, Learning, Recruiting, Workplace CultureTags: career development, career management, growing up, human resources, jobs, mentoring, Recruiting
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Give thanks to those shoring up the sky
Posted: 23rd November 2011 by Kevin W. Grossman in Economics, Emotional Intelligence, Employment Brand, Human Resources, Leadership, Learning, Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Training and DevelopmentTags: business growth, employee development, entrepreneurs, human resources, Recruiting
Sometimes super committees just aren’t so super. They’re turkeys actually. Big fat uncollaborative turkeys that suffer from tetanic torticollar spasms, a genetic nervous disorder that causes them to look up at the sky for up to a minute. To see if it’s falling. Thankfully, there are those of you who do their best spur economic growth and [...]
Hiring military veterans — it’s a ‘pair of ducks’
Posted: 10th November 2011 by Kevin W. Grossman in Career Management, Economics, Emotional Intelligence, Employment Brand, Human Resources, Leadership, Recruiting, Talent AcquisitionTags: business, economics, hiring veterans, Recruiting, TChat, veterans, veterans day
(Cross-posted on TalentCulture) During my niece’s high school graduation three years ago, the school honored those family and friends who had served in the armed forces. My father was in the Air Force, so we smiled proudly as he stood while the song played on, “Off we go, into the wild blue yonder…” Then, at [...]