by Laurie Swanson | Dec 31, 2018 | Career Blog
The head of HR called me to let me know they were not moving forward with my candidate for their open position. I was floored. Up to this point, both the client and I had high hopes for the woman on the interview. She had the right skills and a great personality. This...
by Laurie Swanson | Dec 24, 2018 | Career Blog
I was at a holiday party this past week and learned of an organization that helps coal miners retool themselves as computer programmers! This organization takes coal miners who are out of work or want out of THAT work, puts them through a coding bootcamp, and then...
by Laurie Swanson | Dec 17, 2018 | Career Blog
I love dictionary.com. They send me a Word of the Day and I am often surprised at how appropriate the word they send is to whatever I am involved in at that moment. Like this week-I had just hung up with a coaching client who was talking about how she did not...
by Laurie Swanson | Dec 11, 2018 | Career Blog
“Mom, TI is not a word.” “Yes it is.” “Uh, no it isn’t!!” “TI as in DO, RE, MI, FA, SO, LA, TI, DO from Sound of Music. The words of the notes of music. Each of those are considered acceptable words in Scrabble.” I challenged her and lost. TI was a...
by Laurie Swanson | Dec 3, 2018 | Career Blog
Over Thanksgiving the family got out an oldie-but-a-goodie game called Would You Rather? If you have never played the game it basically asks you to choose between two things that are sometimes hard to choose between and often so unappealing you do not want to choose...
by marlenea | Nov 27, 2018 | Career Blog
I was recently listening to an interview with Annie Duke talk about her new book: Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts. Annie has a degree from Columbia University in English and pursued a Ph.D. in psychology at...
