Working for Corporate America is a lot like signing up for a gym membership you didn’t fully read. It looks promising at first. There’s structure.…
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Category: Human Recourses
Now Accepting Resumes in the Form of Grocery Lists
Once upon a time, job applications were simple. You printed out your resume on 24 pound ivory paper, attached a cover letter that sounded like…
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The Rise of the Behavioral Interview: STAR Method Madness
There was a time when job interviews were straightforward. You’d walk in, shake hands, and field a few predictable questions like, “What are your strengths?”…
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Love Letters from HR: Breaking Up Before We Even Dated
There was a time when letters mattered. Soldiers at war clung to them, teenagers wrote them with glitter pens, and poets swore entire lives could…
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Human Revelations: Why Letting Me Run HR Would Be the End of Corporate America (and the Beginning of Great Television)
Every once in a while, someone drops a question so dangerous, so wildly irresponsible, it makes you pause and rethink the entire universe. Mine came…
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When HR Breaks Up With You 300 Times (But Still Sends Love Letters)
Let’s be honest: my humor isn’t for everyone. Some people find it refreshing, others find it exhausting, and HR departments? Well, they’ve filed me under…
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Warning: Your Personality Is a Liability (According to Recruiters)
I just received the kind of message that belongs framed on the wall of corporate absurdity: “Be careful what you post online. It might hurt…
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Why Is HR Suddenly in My DMs? The Curious Case of My LinkedIn Fan Club
There was a time when LinkedIn connection requests followed a predictable rhythm. A recruiter who would vanish the moment I clicked “accept.” A self proclaimed…
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Silence Is the New ‘No’: How Rejection Emails Vanished Into the Corporate Void
There’s a certain magic to the modern interview process. And by “magic,” I mean the kind of sleight of hand you’d expect from a Vegas…
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