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 [...]
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 [...]
The recent census numbers are out and it would seem like the city of Detroit is a big loser – to the tune of over 200,000 people in the last 10 years. The number drops the current population of Detroit to it’s lowest population since – 1910! (read more here) I know I don’t usually [...]
Being in Michigan – I’ve been hearing from everyone about the ESPN documentary “The Fab Five” that aired this past Sunday, regarding the 91-93 University of Michigan Basketball team. Mostly the people I’ve heard from loved it, thought it was great – I didn’t watch it – why? Michigan sucks! I’m a State fan – I [...]
Like most HR folks I’ve been keeping a close eye on Wisconsin’s budget issues and their battles with state employee unions. Here in Michigan, and really every state in America, is facing almost the exact same issue. Public employee unions have done so well in negotiating over the years (or I could say, the state [...]
I went to a really cool event this past Friday – called Ignite Lansing 4.0. Ignite is like a local TED event – except that made some small changes to move it along – since locally you probably aren’t going to have the same talent level as you would see at TED. Ignite isn’t special to [...]
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