Google “shortage of information security professionals” and you’ll have enough reading material to last you quite a while. With talent scarce and the competition for good talent fierce, counteroffers are a common feature of the human capital landscape. When faced with the prospect of losing a valuable employee, organizations often find some loose change between [...]
In a normal life there are twists and turns. You don't always control the events that shape your life, and that includes your career history. Most people my age never expected the ups and downs they've experienced in their careers. We had no idea what 9/11 would do to the business world, or what outsourcing [...]
While your company is interested in a great talent, not every great talent is interested in your company … C’est la vie! Obviously, dynamics of talent mobility are not obvious to everyone. I have recently spent some time with executive management of medium-sized companies seeking opportunities to improve the performance of their businesses. They all [...]
If you're relatively new to your career, you're probably asking yourself "what can I do to be successful?" Well I've had the opportunity to work with hundreds of amazing people over the years and there's one trait that always comes through among the highly successful: Hard work. Of all the things you can do to [...]
In the course of my career, I have interviewed hundreds of prospective employees, and I’m always amazed by the way so many of them get the process so wrong. At the end of the day, the interview is really about one thing: Making the person across the table fall in love with you. Here are [...]
