Stop Ghosting and Get Ahead of the Game
There’s a trend in the job market where Talent are "ghosting" recruiters and hiring managers. A buzzword previously used for dating to cut off contact with someone has become applicable to the workplace. With the lowest unemployment rates in two decades, candidates who showed interest in a job, maybe even interviewed and were well along in the hiring...
An Interview with the Boss of Social Media
Julie Tijerina, Boss of Social Media talks about her experience leaving the corporate 9-to-5 to pursue remote work through freelancing. Learn what it took for her to finally say goodbye to her cubicle and strike out on her own. Transcript: I am a freelance social...
Shifting out of the 9-to-5
Work is at your fingertips! In a digital age, we have more direct access to people, information and tools on our devices. Many people are challenging the status quo and seeing the benefits to flexible working hours, shift work, and part-time work. Companies who say...
Get Your Hands Dirty and Work
Your job is like clock work--predictable in every way. You walk through the same door and are greeted by the security guard. You clock in and take your things to your locker. You exchange hellos with colleagues and then your team checks in with your...
Pepelwerk's Start Up
The romanticism of the start up environment these days, can easily make anyone believe that they can start something and success just rains on you. The years of work experience under my belt and a Doctorate from the School of Hard Knocks, I know better...
Resume Trap: Hiring for Skill Over Keyword
Resumes the Old Fashioned Way In the corporate world, we so get caught up in our internal vernacular: titles, buzzphrases, and our own languages of acronyms that only make sense to those at our own organizations. A myopic focus on our own internal sets of...
The HR Vision that Inspired Pepelwerk
The Genesis of an HR Startup In two decades of managing, operating, and focusing on the People Strategies (or, if you prefer HR functions) of business of all sizes and in a vast array of industries, there isn’t much that I haven’t seen. In my...
You Are Not a Robot
Let’s face it, being a job seeker is challenging, especially for someone straight out of high school. What seems like a simple online search brings up hundreds of results. After an hour scanning what feels like an endless list, you try to narrow down your...
The Scheduling Gap
It’s the beginning of the day at your retail store when your cell phone rings. An employee that was on the schedule for the afternoon cancels their shift because “something came up.” You grab the staff phone list and begin making calls. After an hour...
A Parent's Perspective on Millennials Entering the Workforce
We have screwed up the notion of what work is and does for us. While this video isn’t the most interesting it is quite accurate, just like all things in life when the pendulum of extreme points of view sway, we end up setting ourselves...
"I Quit!": Why More Employees Are Exiting the Corporate World
According to LinkedIn’s 2016 Purpose at Work Global Report, companies with a clearly articulated purpose outgrew those without one—and it shows in the bottom line. Evidence is growing that employer turnover is correlated with both profit and customer satisfaction: basically, unhappy employees equals unhappy customers....