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How To Optimise Your Job Search

Affiliating yourself with a Recruitment Agent is an excellent way to optimise your job search and ensure you’re covering the market from all angles. Here are some tips on how to deal effectively with a Recruitment Agent to give you the best chance of securing your ideal role.READ»

What I've Learned About Business from Mike Rowe

One of my favorite shows is Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe on the Discovery Chanel.   Mr. Bartender has actually been employed in a few of the jobs shown during the opening credits.  When we met, his job was doing whale ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Where Are You on The “Balance” Seesaw?

On any given day as you walk down the streets of Manhattan — or any streets for that matter — you will probably see people engaging in conversations or texting on their cell phones, checking and responding to e-mail on their ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling — It is Possible, Right?

I read an article this week about a recent report revealing that women face gender discrimination from the beginning of their careers — not necessarily when they reach the executive level. So, the thought of even reaching the C ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Do We Have a Responsibility to Education?

There are many people across the U.S. — the world even — who are committed to improving education. I’m talking about teachers, parents, legislators, community activists and in many instances, students themselves. I was ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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What Would You Do With 40 Hours of “Giving Time”?

Extra time? Who has free time anymore, right? Between working, spending time with family and garnering a little “me” time, where does the time go from day to day, week to week, and year to year? Well, my company gives ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Promoting Your Brand in a Crisis — Yes You Can!

Most would agree that throughout this economic crisis no industry sector has taken a bigger reputational hit than financial services-related names — the whole group from banks to brokerages and insurance companies. On the inside, ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Lace up Your Running Shoes and Train for Your Career

Did you know that running is one of the fastest growing participatory sports in the United States? My company sponsors distance running events across the country, bringing runners, spectators, employees and the community together in a ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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How S-M-A-R-T Are You?

It’s that time of year when we ask employees to create their performance objectives. I wish I could say that our employees eagerly anticipate this exercise, like they might their favorite author’s next book hitting the ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Can Random Thoughts Help To Make Sense of Our Current Environment?

Why would anyone want to hear someone’s random thoughts you ask? Well, perhaps it can offer some method to the madness that some feel we are living in today. Let me explain.   A few months ago, I blogged about preparing ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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How Did You Find Out Your Job Was Being Eliminated?

The reality is this question is being asked a lot these days. Some companies are superb or really “show their stuff” when it comes to communicating internally to employees during these challenging times. Others may not be doing ...READ»

We're All Replaceable

Lots of conversation yesterday about President Obama's $500,000 cap on senior executive pay for the distressed financial institutions receiving bailout money.  While I try most of the time to keep my political opinions to myself, I ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Three-Dimensional Chess

Job cuts deepen across the USA. Retail outlook expected to worsen. We can’t seem to escape these headlines. And this week we’ve read about and heard our share of news about the economy that, for the most part, is pretty grim. ...READ»

What Is the New HR?

Remember when our department was called "personnel"?  Then all of a sudden, management teams made the decision that personnel would be called "human resources".  We got new business cards.  Did our job change?  Nope. For the past ...READ»

If Your Marketing Director Ran HR . . .

I recently read a post from '8 hours & a lunch' about the best and worst jobs.  Philosopher was #12 on the list and Deb asked how many people actually know a philosopher.  It was cool to comment because I've met Tom Morris, who ...READ»

We're In This Together

I recently read a post that I wanted to share with you.  It reminded me of the last car I bought (several years ago).  Went to the dealership.  Picked out the car.  Negotiated the deal.  Agreed to pay cash.  (Yes, that's ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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What is Your Personal Brand?

Every day we’re exposed to company brands. Maybe it’s that place where you pick up your favorite coffee or home improvement supplies or that suit or running shoes you love to wear. What are the characteristics of a successful ...READ»

Some Things Never Change

I hate to harp on the economy...but this article landed in my in-box and I just couldn't resist writing about it. Robert Half International just released a survey showing 35% of senior executives felt that unhappiness with management ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Orange People and the Value of Employee Resource Groups

We have a lot of orange people at ING. What do I mean? I equate orange employees with those who are most engaged. I consider members of our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to represent some of the most orange folks I’ve encountered ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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They Didn’t Hate it Enough to Kill It

When one of my daughters learned that I was a blogger for Fast Company, she thought it was very cool. But then she asked me, “Dad, did you even know what a blog was, did they have to explain it to you?” Of course, she was just ...READ»

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What Women Want

We’re in a recession. That’s the phrase many of us have been hearing and reading over the last few weeks. Yep, it’s official. However, this news didn’t really come as a surprise to many Americans. As an HR professional for a ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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What Makes a Good Leader?

When you’ve been in HR for as long as I have, you can imagine how often this question has been asked of me. To be honest, I don’t think that I’ve been able to give the same answer each time. Why is that? Well, for starters, ...READ»

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Diversity - The Silver-Lining

  Given the seemingly endless negative economic news that we are currently absorbing every day, Bridge Partners LLC has been looking for a silver-lining – and we found it in the fact that the country is making great progress when ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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How Does Orange Go Green?

An article the other day caught my attention. It was about the U.S. Army releasing its first annual sustainability report. We’re reading and hearing a lot more these days about green — from private sector to public sector and the ...READ»

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Online Dating: A Model for a Mentoring Program

So what does online dating have to do with a mentoring program? Well, we adopted some of the concepts of online dating and applied them to our mentoring program, ING Mentoring Advantage. The mentoring program is voluntary—for both ...READ»

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