hiring – The Musings of the Big Red Car

CEO Shoptalk: HIRING >>> Hard Skills, Soft Skills, Experience, Common Sense, Character

Big Red Car — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 21:56:17 +0000

Not long ago I was discussing the hiring practices of a mature company I had first met as a startup when I advised its CEO. Early in their existence they had used a decent headhunter, but when they brought it in house, they stubbed their toes over process. The company has since successfully exited and […]

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The Worm Has Turned — Employment

Big Red Car — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:41:39 +0000

The United States, a great country, has about 10.5MM job openings and 7.3MM folks looking for jobs. This means that employers who want to fill their open positions are ratcheting up their hiring game because this is now a contest in which not everybody can emerge a winner. So, how do you — wanting to […]

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Some Thoughts On Job Creation

Big Red Car — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 18:22:58 +0000

Presidents are always puffing up and beating their chests about all the jobs they’ve created by their general goodness, wisdom, and pluck. Here’s the thing — we don’t need any more jobs in the short term. We have plenty of jobs. We need folks to fill jobs. Let me show you why I think this: […]

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Recruitment v Seduction

Big Red Car — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 18:48:53 +0000

A professional recruiter who I have advised — real pro — put up an article on Twitter that caught my interest. It discusses the essence of recruitment failures and why they happen. It takes a long time to get to the nub of things, but it is filled with wisdom. I had also been building […]

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Recruiting v Hiring

Big Red Car — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 14:35:26 +0000

Big Red Car here on a day with brilliant sunshine, bit of a chill, and off to church to pray for all of us. Glorious Sunday! So, the other day we were talking with some overcaffeinated CEOs about hiring. One point that was left off was the utilization of recruiting as a part of the […]

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Hiring – Thoughts From Overcaffeinated CEOs

Big Red Car — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 17:33:56 +0000

Big Red Car here on a gray, cold day in the ATX. Brrr, it’s 47F (feels like 42F), the start of the next Ice Age — please send some global warming, talking to you, Al Gore. Recently, the Big Red Car was talking to a gaggle of CEOs (gaggle is 4 or more for CEOs) […]

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Firing People — CEO Shoptalk

Big Red Car — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:31:24 +0000

Firing people and laying folks off is a hard day. Here are some thoughts on how to do it. Big Red Car here on a cloudy, but soon to be sunny, day in the ATX, God’s country. On Earth as it is in Texas! Muggy today. So, a CEO has a series of things she […]

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Thoughts on Hiring

Big Red Car — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:31:40 +0000

Big Red Car here in the beautiful ATX. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, we have a day like today and a day like yesterday. On Earth as it is in Texas! Hiring is one of the things about building a great startup that is alluded to with a backhanded swipe of […]

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The Physics of Business Process

Big Red Car — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 13:42:17 +0000

Big Red Car here. Glorious day yesterday in the ATX. Going to be 70F and sunny today. Ahhh. In business there is an element of physics — the study of matter and its motion through space and time — which shows up in the processes which any enterprise embraces. Superior processes and capabilities result in […]

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Key Hiring Tips

Big Red Car — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:06:17 +0000

Big Red Car here. It’s right at 35F headed to 65F today. Can’t wait for the sun to get into the game today. [I’m tired of winter. Hahahaha, Big Red Car, you don’t know about winter. Those poor folks in the South are really suffering, so STFU already, Big Red Car.] So The Boss has […]

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