I travel quite a bit these days. 2011 has me in the cities of London, New York, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Washington DC, Raleigh, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, San Antonio, Destin, Vancouver, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Tulsa, Toronto, and many more. Everywhere I go, people marvel at the fact that, although I spent roughly the first halfRead more
Thanks to Gordon Keith of Sports Radio 1310 The Ticket for posting this funny send up of broadcast news’ obsession with social media. Are we very far away from this? I don’t think so. Fake hostage situation at City Hall from Fox 4 DFW–poking fun at social media obsession.Read more
Earlier this year, Geoff Webb and Bill Boorman of TRU Events asked if I would be willing to participate in a fundraising effort for a charity called Orchid that promotes awareness of male cancer. I said sure, what’s the catch? Of course there was a catch. The idea was to do a calendar depicting maleRead more
In September, as a follow up to a previous post of mine, Top 10 Things to Leave OFF of Your Resume, I posted this question on LinkedIn: What should a job candidate NOT wear to an interview?. The responses from 61 users were both instructive and hilarious. The first five were the top suggestions overall. Read more
Work to do. Open email client. See message: "Top Five Ways Social Media Can Cause Death". Must know more. Open message, click link. Enter email address to login to intriguing online community. Get sucked in. Consent to be an honorary "group leader". Email all your friends to join. Time wasted = 3 hours. And yourRead more
It was great fun to see the two largest job boards go head to head in Sunday’s Super Bowl. I really liked both of these ads, but I have to tip my hat to CareerBuilder this time. I think it’s the Koala with the coffee cup and the glasses, but there are many great thingsRead more
These are from a list posted by Dmitri Davydov on Madconomist.com. They are pretty funny and I can attest to the fact that people really do put some really stupid stuff on their resumes. I wonder sometimes if these people ever even read their own resumes. Many I get from people claiming to be expertsRead more
