Why 5.7 Million Americans a Year Are Filing Paperwork to Become Their Own Boss – and Why 2022–2032 Is Going to Look, in the Rearview Mirror, Like the Steamboat, the Railroad, the Model T, and 1995 All at Once Every generation gets one of these. A technology arrives, the cost of trying something falls through…
Why the person who explains it out-earns the person who knows it Every industry has a word it says fifty times a day and has never once defined out loud. Ours is “social inflation.” Here is how to hand it to somebody who does not sell insurance for a living, and why that skill is…
Somewhere out there, a warehouse lead sat on the edge of his bed at eleven at night and typed four sentences about your company into a review site. Nobody paid him. Nobody handed him a creative brief. And what he wrote beats the careers page you spent forty grand on, for one simple reason: nobody…
So I put together an 8-hour course for myself to review AI tools for executive recruiting that are being used right now. I whittled that down to a 30-min course for a variety of reasons. Then I had a need for a cheat sheet for the info. These shouldn’t be relied on for anything important,…
I woke up today with a tragic case of Dunning-Kruger. I mean, hell, I started one successful recruiting firm, and half-joked about recruiting for executive assistants, so why can’t I be qualified to opine on recruiting as a whole. Putting those very valid concerns aside, as an amusing intellectual exercise, this morning I wrote down…
I discovered a steadily-growing area of US employment this morning: executive assistants. About a million people with the title and a solid 18-year Google Search history.