A job candidate flies through the recruiting process. Great resume. Stellar interview. Says all the right things and describes all the right experiences. You bring them in for their first day. Disaster. They have no idea what they’re doing. It quickly dawns on you: the perfect resume, the impressive interview … all lies. Now you…
Balance in any endeavor is difficult. In fact, it’s definitionally precarious, as it involves an attempt to hold steady between two intense, competing forces. Consider the difficulty faced by tightrope walkers or NASA engineers attempting to send a satellite into orbit. Or just think back to yourself as a little kid, first learning to ride…
The first day of any new endeavor is hard (flashbacks to junior high or summer camp). Beyond these normal anxieties, however, onboarding at a new job comes with a special torture inflicted by all the requirements of corporate bureaucracies, namely: complete, utter boredom. The start of a new job can feel dreary and uninviting. The…
You’ve been working at your current post as a temp for a while now. You love the position. You love the company. You love your co-workers. You respect your manager and you buy into the firm’s overall mission. You decide your goal is to turn the temporary gig into a full-time opportunity. But how do…
Maybe it stems from a long-buried hibernation instinct, but it’s difficult to get anything done during the winter. Vacations, holidays, New Year’s hangovers, the general malaise of short days, bad weather and having to wear multiple layers – it all contributes to an overall sluggishness that drains the willingness to do anything productive. Luckily, spring…
Work can’t be a constant laugh-fest. If the office perpetually resembles an after-hours club in Ibiza, no work will get done. Alternatively, if each day seems like a dour slog through a Stalin-era gulag, it doesn’t bode well for long-term efficiency either. It’s easy to mistake serious and boring for professionalism but tamping down too…
In any sports league, there’s preseason and then there are the games that matter. The players tend to go through the motions on the preseason schedule, saving themselves for the games that actually count in the standings. People often treat an interview with a recruiter like a preseason game. They assume that since the recruiter…
Your business operates 24 hours a day. You can’t oversee it all that time (although you try). Additional shifts mean additional profits. Unfortunately, they also mean additional complications. Take safety, for instance. Maintaining safety standards across your second and third shifts can pose a significant challenge. Non-traditional shifts are often more difficult to control directly….
You thought the worst part was over. You sweated through the interview, overcoming the social and professional pressure of selling yourself to strangers (and you did a pretty good job too, in your humble opinion). But something worse is on the way: the wait. Once the interview ends, you’re left in limbo as the powers…
Safety starts with employees. Frontline workers can operate like a safety spy network, deployed throughout your facility, looking for possible hazards and reporting them before they become real problems. Run-of-the-mill operations take employees through most parts of your facility on a day-to-day basis. They are in a great position to find potentially dangerous situations early….
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