
Tidbits, Help and Progress
(August 22, 2002) -
We're collecting salary negotiation tips (from the employee's perspective)
for a short pamphlet on (you guessed it) Salary Negotiation. If you have tips
for effectiveness, anecdotes, or other insights, please send
them in an email.
What are the 10 best ways to make certain that
your resume is ignored? D you have an example of the worst resume you've ever
seen? What are some of the most common mistakes you uncover as you search
through the piles of resumes? Send us your
funniest and strangest.
Thanks to
everyone, who sent us a copy of
an ATS specification. We received more than 70, and they appear to have relatively little
in common! The consolidated 'standardized' spec will be shipped to everyone,
who helped in mid-November.
Thanks to
everyone, who submitted best practices. The 50
or so entries will be down-selected to 30, and will be published as a part of the 2003
HCI. If we select yours, we'll send you the final write up.
Take a moment to review "Born
Digital," a wired article about the lifestyles of people, who take
networked society for granted. These are the next generation of new employees.
Our hero, Peter Drucker, catches
up with our thinking on demographics. Worth passing on to all of the
executives in your company.
-John
Sumser