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Rich rod
Feb 22

Bad Hires Worse

If I could take all of my HR education, My SPHR and 20 years of experience and boil it down to this one piece of advice, it would be this: Bad Hires Worse. In HR we love to talk about our hiring and screening processes, and how we “only” hire the best talent, but in [...]

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Feb 21

The 8 Man Rotation – 2011 Season

In what is probably the most anticipated eBook release of 2012 the The 8 Man Rotation crew (Matt Stollack, Steve Boese, Lance Haun, Kris Dunn and I) today release to the world version two of our most famous HR/Sports related blog posts of 2011:  The 8 Man Rotation – the 2011 Season.   The forward is [...]

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Feb 20

Do You Have a Jeremy Lin on Your Staff?

“Linsanity” has taken over New York and the NBA!  Do you even know what it is? Let’s begin with some background – Linsanity refers to Jeremy Lin the up-start Point Guard for the New York Knicks which seems to have materialized out of thin air.  How up-start? In his first 4 NBA starts, with the [...]

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Feb 17

#24 Rap Lyric That Shaped My Leadership Style

For the background of this list – see my post from 2-10-12. The #24 Rap Lyric that has shaped my leadership style is from Little Wayne, from a song he did with Eminem called “No Love”: “I think about more than I forget But I don’t go around fire expecting not to sweat”   Two [...]

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Feb 16

Do You Know What Really Matters?

I had a friend die this week.  43 years old, married 3 kids under 12.  He was diagnosed with ALS a little over two years ago. We played basketball together in the mornings with a bunch of old guys – you see young guys won’t get up at 5:30 am to hoop – so it’s [...]

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Feb 15

The Only Interview Questions You’ll Ever Need

About a year ago Forbes had an article, Top Executive Recruiters Agree There Are Only 3 True Job Interview Questions, that shared the “wisdom” of a handful of Executive Dinosaurs Recruiters on the only things that you should really have to ask a candidate.  There 3 questions where: 1. Can you do the job? 2. [...]

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Feb 13

Do You Know What Your Employees Are Doing Tonight?

I love Fast Company – if I could only read one magazine ever – it would be FC.  If I could read two – I would re-read Fast Company.  Article for article the best publication on the market. (Editor note: Fast Company, please send the check care of The Tim Sackett Project) Recently, FC had [...]

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Feb 10

#25 Rap Lyric that has Shaped my Leadership Style

I have a little secret I need to share with you all:  I grew up in the hood.  Not the South Central/Cabrini Green/Hell’s Kitchen hood – but it wasn’t the milky white suburban existence my kids are growing up in right now!  On my 2 mile walk to school (we couldn’t afford busing) I passed [...]

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Feb 8

It’s Halftime America! Imported from the D

Being in Michigan Chrysler’s last two Superbowl Ads have been big news in our part of the world (check out last year’s ad with Eminem- here).  In case you didn’t see the most recent one, starring Clint Eastwood – here it is: Super cool right! Make you feel good about America.  If you’re from Michigan [...]

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Feb 6

How To Really Get an Entry Level Job

I get asked a lot by all kinds of people about the “secrets” to landing a job – students, parents of students, experienced professionals, not so experienced professionals, etc. – it doesn’t matter – everyone has this belief that because I run a recruiting company and have worked in HR for going on 20 years [...]

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