Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:21:16 -0400 Peter Clayton http://www.totalpicture.com Podcast Maker v1.3.8b - http://www.lemonzdream.com/podcastmaker The First Podcast for Career Advancement, Employment Trends, Web 2.0 Recruiting, and Leadership Development Total Picture Radio is a career advancement podcast to help knowledge workers navigate today's job market. We are committed to sharing ideas and commentary from thought leaders in business, strategy, marketing, career management, media, and the Internet. TPR podcasts actionable information for high-performance careerists - and business leaders creating talent-focused organizations. Our in-depth interviews include best-selling authors, senior executives, visionaries, leadership coaches, and entrepreneurs. en-us (c) 2006/2009 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ Peter Clayton peter@totalpicture.com http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/300x300-logo_144.jpg http://www.totalpicture.com 144 144 Careers Business News Management & Marketing career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion no Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton An Inside Recruiting edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting from the SHRM 2009 Conference in New Orleans. Joining us: frequent contributor to Total Picture Radio, Gerry Crispin, principal of CareerXroads. Gerry and his partner, Mark Mehler are human resource professionals who have spent over two decades working in just about every facet of the employment industry. Gerry's presentation at SHRM focused on the increasing importance of a company's Web site in attracting top talent. We discuss recruiting industry trends, best pratices, one of Gerry's "favorite cities" --New Orleans, the standards initiative SHRM is supporting under ANSI/ISO protocols, and technology trends facing the staffing industry. Gerry Crispin's biography: I write, research and share my adventures, opinions and data about evolving staffing models with the HR profession (and at small-group meetings of corporate staffing strategists that participate in CareerXroads' colloquia). I am passionate about how firms design and build staffing processes, the technology to enhance them and the systems to manage them. Together with my business partner, Mark Mehler, I strive to observe and influence new and evolving models that aspire to world-class, measurable standards and satisfy every stakeholder. I want to know more about the "playing fields" where candidates and employers meet and I'm more than a little curious about how they treat one another: how Job Seekers "game" their next career move while Employers tout their latest opportunities. I'm constantly on the lookout for stories about staffing challenges, benchmarks, and results as well as the people who live the stories they tell. http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/recruiting/gerry-crispin-shrm-2009-podcast.html http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/gerry_crispin_shrm_podcast.mp3 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:16:37 -0400 Careers no 00:27:26 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Our First podcast from SHRM 2008 Conference in New Orleans! Joining Producer/Host Peter Cla: Matthew Adam, VP & Chief Talent Strategist for NAS Recruitment Communications, an agency of the McCann Worldgroup and a provider of HR communications solutions. Nowadays, every ‘A’ level candidate carefully managing their career is visiting your Web site and making assumptions about your organization based on what they find. Unfortunately, many Web sites are not designed with the candidate experience in mind and fail to engage talent." - Matthew Adam Welcome to an Inside Recruiting podcast on Total Picture Radio, sponsored by Taleo Corporation. This is Peter Clayton with our special coverage from the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) 2009 National Conference in New Orleans. I'm delighted to have on our show Matthew Adam, Vice President & Chief Talent Strategist for NAS Recruitment Communications, an agency of the McCann Worldgroup and a leading provider of innovative human resource communications solutions. http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/recruiting/matthew-adam-shrm-podcast.html http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/Matthew_Adam_SHRM_podcast.mp3 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:16:12 -0400 Careers no 00:23:26 recruiting, HR, SHRM, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton "This crisis is more than a time of joblessness." Recession-driven unemployment numbers don't look good for young job hunters around the world. Peter Clayton discusses Gen Y unemployment with Judy London. "Dude... what happened to Jobs?" Gen Y, Which Will Rule the Global Workforce Tomorrow, Takes Lumps Today Written by Judy London from i4cp Today's economic mess is a watershed for workers in every age bracket. But for Millennials (aka, Gen Y) - those born from about 1980 to 2000 - this crisis is more than a time of joblessness. It coincides with their coming of age, setting the blueprint not only for individual lives and careers but for a new era in the global workplace. Right now, recession-driven unemployment numbers don't look good for young job hunters around the world. Jobless rates have skyrocketed to as high as 24% for the youngest in Australia's job market, and they're up to 12% for that age group in the U.S. In Colorado alone, current unemployment rates for young people have increased by 66%. These numbers might be driven, in part, by employers who are reportedly hiring more seasoned workers to cut training and development costs for new entrants to the workforce. Gen Y's slow response in crafting strategies to overcome a poor job market might be another contributing factor (Harris, 2009; Tahmincioglu, 2009). As a result, fast-tracking career plans for most young people appear to be thrown into reverse. Instead of engaging in job hopping, many are simply trying to hang on to what they have. A 2009 survey from Experience Inc., which is an organization focused on Generation Y recruitment, found 67% of 1,650 young respondents saying that, in the interest of increasing their job security, they plan to hold onto their current job by extending their work hours (33%) and taking on more job responsibilities, including helping their fellow workers (30%). In fact, as many as 44% ranked job security above career-advancement issues, and 35% are not counting on as many career openings as in the past ("Gen Y Insights," 2009). In addition, younger workers responding to a Randstad online poll were more likely than older respondents to say they would do something to impress their bosses: take on additional work and responsibilities, work overtime and stay late or come early to show extra face time, for example (Laff, 2008). http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/trendwatcher/trendwatcher-gen-y-wake-up-call.html#ixzz0JXxlnbMx&D http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/trendwatcher/trendwatcher-gen-y-wake-up-call.html http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/TrendWatcher_i4cp_genY.mp3 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:29:16 -0400 Careers no 00:12:31 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Dice Holdings, a leading provider of specialized career websites for professional communities, announced it completed the purchase of AllHealthcareJobs.com. Peter Clayton speaks with Mike Durney, SVP/CFO of Dice, and Phil Morris, AllHealthCareJobs.com Welcome to a Online Savvy Podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Reporting. Earlier this month, Dice Holdings, a leading provider of specialized career websites for professional communities, announced it completed the purchase of substantially all of the assets of AllHealthcareJobs.com, a leading online career site dedicated to matching healthcare professionals with available career opportunities. I had the opportunity to interview Phil Morris, founder of AllHeathCareJobs.com at the International Association Employment Web Sites Fall Congress in Chicago last September. Both Dice.com and AllHeathCareJobs.com are a winners of Weddle's 2009 User Choice Awards. We'd like to welcome Phil Morris back to Total Picture Radio, along with Michael P. Durney, Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Dice Holdings. Questions: Mike, I'd like to start with you. This marks your fourth acquisition for Dice - can you give us a brief background on Dice Holdings? Phil, every job board owner I talk with tells me the same story: Job listings are off 30-50% -- this is the worst it's ever been. How's your business holding up? Phil - Were you actively looking for a business partner? Did Dice come to you? Phil - You're still running the day-to-day at AllHeathCareJobs? Mike - Are you looking to make additional acquisitions this year? Mike - Dice is a geek jobs site, you've obviously been very successful. What's happening today Mike, are job postings on Dice.com up? How about eFinancialCareers? What can you tell us -- given the global reach of that job board. Is there any good news to report in the financial sector? Phil - I was on AllHealthCareJobs.com today. It looks very much the same as it did when we spoke in Chicago last year. No Dice branding - nothing really about the acquisition. So what is Dice brining to your party? Mike - according to the stats I've seen, job boards represent only 1% - 2% of actual hires. Also, a number of recruiters tell me only the truly desperate are surfing job boards: the best candidates -- those passive candidates everyone wants to hire aren't there. Advertising on job boards means getting spammed with hundreds of resumes of unqualified candidates. I'm sure you've heard all this before. Care to respond to these criticisms? Phil: As a niche board operator how do you respond to these criticisms? Mike - I posted this question on Linkedin Answers recently - "Job boards allow employers to get the most-qualified candidate at the lowest salary." Mike - Speaking about Linkedin - How are social networking sites -- Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook affecting your business, and how can job boards take advantage of what these sites offer without being cannibalized by them? Mike, CFO crystal ball time: A number of states are now in double-digit unemployment -- given your projections, when will things start to turn around? Phil - What kind of growth are you expecting in the health care industry for the balance of this year? Phil - Mike - What didn't I ask that you would like to share? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/Dice_AllHealthCareJobs_Podcast.mp3 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:36:05 -0400 Careers no 00:20:36 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton LinkedIn is fast becoming the most important job search tool in this new economy. Listen to this podcast with career expert Donna Sweidan if you are confused about how to use Linkedin: so that it really does enhance your job search. Donna Sweidan is an expert in career exploration issues, assessment, job search, on-line identity, resumes and strategic coaching. What activity are you doing everyday and how are you getting out, how are you meeting people, where are you going out and being productive? There is light at the end of the tunnel and they’ve got to think about what can I do today that’s going to help me get results, two, three, four months down the line. That’s what I’m trying to impress upon people about how can they get out and what kind of activities they can do, instead of sitting behind the computer." Donna Sweidan Welcome to a Career Transition Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio, with Peter Clayton reporting. Donna Sweidan has worked in the field of counseling, training and career development for over 14 years. She is a credentialed career coach and provides personalized career and life transition counseling. An expert on integrating technology into the job search and career management process, Donna is dedicated to empowering her clients and leveraging the power of the internet to advance and manage their careers. Based in Stamford, Connecticut, she is the founder of Career Folk. Donna Sweidan is a career coach with over 15 years experience motivating and facilitating job seekers and career changers in their quest for professional fulfillment. As a trained counselor, Donna specializes in helping clients overcome the obstacles they face in the career transition process. Founder of Careerfolk, LLC, a full service career management company, Donna uses a range of tools and creative strategies to facilitate the career exploration and development process. She is particularly passionate about getting people to talk about their job search, and is a strong believer in the power of group learning and support. She facilitates two successful job search strategy groups that have received wide media attention, including The New York Times and CNN. Donna is also a popular and inspiring speaker and presents on a range of career development topics. A Linkedin expert and advocate on integrating technology into the career management process, Donna is dedicated to empowering people to leverage the power of the internet to advance and manage their careers. The founding Director of Career Services at The New School in NYC, she has also been quoted in the International Business Times, Fortune.com and The Stamford Advocate. Donna has earned the Master Career Counselor designation, awarded by the National Career Development Association and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York State. She is also a certified Five O’Clock Club Coach. http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/career-transition/donna-sweidan-the-linkedin-podcast.html http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/career-transition/donna-sweidan-the-linkedin-podcast.html http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/donna_sweidan_career_folk_podcast.mp3 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:12:09 -0400 Careers no 00:24:58 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton "Job boards allow employers to get the most-qualified candidate at the lowest salary." A Career Transitions podcast with founder and president of JobBait.com, Mark Hovind Mark is a career marketing coach for 6 and 7 figure executives. He worked his way up through the ranks (after graduating with a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Illinois) from a staff engineer to VP, Director, GM, COO and CEO. He's helped small companies and large, including Transamerica, Delco Electronics and Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia . He's managed 350 employees, a $700 million budget, and helped take two companies public. Questions Peter asked Mark in this interview: In the open, I referred to JobBait as a "fantastic career management resource" - I don't make this kind of recommendation very often - so I'd like to start by asking you to give the audience an overview of the information they'll find on JobBait.com - especially the free resources you offer. Mark, you list the following benefits of using JobBait: 3x faster than networking 4x more job openings 6x better than outplacement (that doesn't surprise me) 10x potential payback Let's start with networking - the mantra of many guests on this show: the best way to get an executive level job is to network with your peers on sites like Linkedin. In fact, you refer to networking as job hunting hype? Once again, quoting directly from JobBait.com The Hidden $100k+ Job Market More than 80% of all jobs are hidden, and only 1 out of 20 executives goes after them. Less than 20% of all jobs are visible through networking, recruiters and job boards, and 19 out of 20 executives compete for these jobs. 80% of all jobs are hidden? How do you know this? As I read it, a significant part of your strategy involves the "value proposition," a direct mail campaign to a targeted list. Why is this so effective? Most people view direct mail as junk mail. How do you go about building a targeted list? How many letters to you mail, on average? How long does this process take to get results? How much does it cost? Let's pretend I've spent my entire career in one of the following: automotive, real estate, financial services. How can I position myself to be competitive in health care or education, or green jobs -- i.e. in growth industries? You recommend that all professionals should have their own website. Why? If someone is interested in working with you, or learning more about your services, what's the best way to connect with you? Based on the data you're looking at, what do you project for the balance of 2009 for executive employment opportunities? http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/in-cue/mark-hovind-jobbait-podcast.html#ixzz0IdlCT1Nc&D http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/mark_hovind_jobbait_podcast.mp3 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:49:25 -0400 Careers no 00:27:06 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton "Business executives may be under the impression that there is top talent readily available on the market. They may think that the business can easily replace anyone. In that mindset, talent management loses its focus and employees are commoditized." Welcome to a Big Picture channel podcast on Total Picture Radio -- Alice Snell is vice president of Taleo Research. The specialty research practice analyzes the best practices and economics of talent management. Taleo Research focuses on critical issues and key trends in talent management that impact organizational performance. Taleo Research is the strategic research division of Taleo, which provides on demand talent management solutions for organizations of all sizes, worldwide. Stay tuned... Our exclusive interview with Alice Snell will air Monday, June 15! Questions Peter asked Alice: I'd like you to discuss some of the research Taleo has done recently in the area of Talent Management There seems to be a lot of friction -- trying to balance cost cuts -- especially head count, while at the same time keeping employees engaged and productive. What are some strategies you've found to be effective? Is employee engagement on senior management's radar -- given the tough economy? You've blogged about talent alignment initiatives that can boost retention and productivity. Can you share some insight on how this works? Taleo is celebrating its tenth anniversary -- what are some of the most significant changes that have occurred over the past 10 years in talent management? What changes do you foresee over the next couple of years? Taleo works with a good number of Fortune 500 companies. What's the mood out there with your customer base? Are they feeling more positive today about economic recovery than they were 6 months ago? Alice Snell Biography Alice Snell is Vice President, Research at Taleo Corporation . Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO) is the leader in on demand, web-based talent management solutions that empower organizations of all sizes, around the world to assess, acquire, develop, and align their workforce for improved business performance. Ms. Snell has been tracking and analyzing the intersection between technology and talent management for well more than a decade. She published The Job-Seeker's Guide to On-Line Resources in 1994 and has authored numerous articles and reports on talent management technology and processes including Hidden ROI of Talent Acquisition and Mobility, Talent Management in a Down Economy, Quality of Hire, Careers Site 2.0: Taking the Lead in the War for Talent, Unified Talent Management: A Global View, Onboarding, and The Value of Unified Recruiting and Performance Management. Ms. Snell also produces the award-winning Taleo Talent Management blog that covers talent management definition, practices, and the latest research in the field. Ms. Snell is frequently called upon to provide expert commentary on talent management issues and is quoted in leading media including The Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, Chief Executive, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, CNBC.com, The Boston Globe and Investor’s Business Daily. Prior to joining Taleo in 1999, Ms. Snell was a senior analyst at Kennedy Information. Ms. Snell holds a Master of Science degree from Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts cum laude from Brandeis University. http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/in-cue/alice-snell-talent-management-in-2009.html#ixzz0ITCBZkMj&D http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/big-picture/alice-snell-talent-management-in-2009.html http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/alice_snell_taleo_research_update.mp3 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:28:13 -0400 Careers no 00:21:42 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton "Leaking of confidential information especially worries large companies, with over half (54%) reporting it as a risk to a high or very high extent." Peter Clayton interviews the author of Time to Tighten Your Social Networking Structure? Most organizations see the potential of social networking technologies, but they also face concomitant risks - risks for which they may not yet be adequately prepared, suggests new research conducted by i4cp. Yes, social networking can be a boon to an organization by encouraging knowledge sharing, fueling innovation, and boosting productivity. But unfettered social networking on the part of employees can also be calamitous, sending the wrong kind of messages to the world, creating confusion for customers, and potentially compromising the company brand. Most of today's firms use social networking technologies. The i4cp survey found that over half (58%) of respondents said their companies use these technologies, a number that climbs to 61% among the largest companies (those with 10,000 or more employees). And it's quite possible that even those that say their companies don't use these technologies have employees who are informally using social networking Web sites, collaborating via instant messaging, or otherwise engaging in some sort of technology-facilitated social networking. http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/trendwatcher/trendwatcher-social-networking.html http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/trendwatcher_social_networks.mp3 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:41:42 -0400 Careers no 00:16:43 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton How To Ace the Employment Phone Screen: A Must-Have Skill in a Hyper-Competitive Marketplace Welcome to a Success Strategies podcast on Total Picture Radio, with is Peter Clayton reporting. Paul Bailo is founder of Phone Interview Pro. This is not only a new company, but also a whole new industry; it's exciting for us, of course, but the real excitement generated by Phone Interview Pro will come from those who hone their skills using the service." - Paul Bailo Getting to first base means getting past the phone screen. However, far too many individuals in career transition don't take this initial step seriously enough — thinking that it's not that important, that they can "wing-it." Think again. The initial phone interview, if nothing else, is intended to weed-out a large number of prospective candidates. If you don't take it as seriously as an in person, formal interview with the hiring manager, chances are you'll never get to that face-to-face with the employer. Welcome to a Success Strategies podcast on Total Picture Radio. This is Peter Clayton reporting. Several weeks ago, our friend and frequent contributor, Judy Rosemarin, founder of Sense-Able Strategies, asked me to make a presentation at her ExecuNet senior executive networking meeting in New York on using social networks. At the meeting, I met Paul Bailo, who discovered a need while conducting his own job search: namely, advice on preparing and acing the phone interview screen. Based on many hours of research, and his own experiences, Paul started Phone Interview Pro – a service for job seekers who want to perfect their telephone job interviewing skills. Paul recognized that while resume, interview preparation, and target company research assistance are commonly offered by outplacement and career counseling organizations, the importance of the telephone interview is often overlooked. In response to this, Phone Interview Pro has created a 250+ point phone evaluation. Today, job candidates make initial contact with prospective employers via a telephone screen. The phone interview has become a crucial first-step in securing an in-person interview. While making a career transition, Paul Bailo determined that many job candidates needed a phone coaching resource. And Phone Interview Pro is the outgrowth of his experience. Paul's book, The Official Phone Interview Handbook was just released this month. http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/success-strategies/paul-bailo-phone-interivew-pro.html#ixzz0I8BfKAO4&D http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/success-strategies/paul-bailo-phone-interivew-pro.html http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/paul_bailo_phone_screen_podcast.mp3 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:12:42 -0400 Careers no 00:28:31 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton An Exclusive Interview with Mary Elizabeth Bradford, "The Career Artisan" Internationally Certified Advanced Resume Writer and Tactical Job Search Coach Welcome to a Success Strategies podcast on Total Picture Radio. This is Peter Clayton Reporting. Joining us today is author, speaker, Internationally Certified Advanced Resume Writer and Internationally Certified Master Director, Mary Elizabeth Bradford. Mary Elizabeth is the author of two guidebooks: "Secrets of the Unadvertised Job Market…Revealed!” and “Phone Networking Secrets Revealed.” She is the publisher of the bimonthly ezine, The Career Insider. Her guidebooks have been lauded by both clients and colleagues as “powerful,” “comprehensive” and “highly effective.” Mary Elizabeth is an active member of Career Directors International and serves on their Membership and Marketing Committee. She obtained her Certification as an Advanced Resume Writer and Master Career Director through CDI, and in 2009 was one of four honorees to receive CDI’s inaugural Master Career Professional Lifetime Achievement Award. She has been published in multiple law and Business Journals and career-related websites throughout the world. Additionally, Mary Elizabeth is an alumnus of Leadership Orlando, past Board Member and Vice President of Membership for the Downtown Orlando Partnership and Junior Achievement volunteer. As a Special Events Committee Member for The House of Mercy in Nashville, she created their first Annual Benefit at Nashville’s Famous Bluebird Café. She served on the Disaster Relief Team for the Nashville Chapter of the American Red Cross. Questions for Mary Elizabeth Bradford: Recession-Busting Job Search Strategies -- that's the title of this podcast. Supplied in your email to me. With the following --"Learn what industries are hiring and two powerful strategies to quickly and easily get in front of them and make a powerful and positive first impression." Who's hiring Mary Elizabeth? Tell us about two powerful strategies to quickly and easily get in front of hiring managers. What feedback are you getting from clients you're working with now -- specifically those in career transistion? Let's talk about resumes: Chronological or functional? There's the old mantra that resumes need to be one page... however, if you've been working for 15-20 years that's difficult. What do most people leave out of their resumes that are must-haves? Let's face it. Employers have a buyers market right now. What can you do to get a better offer -- or get that raise you were promised last year? http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/success-strategies/mary-elizabeth-bradford-the-career-artisan.html#ixzz0HYcoFWOX&D http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/mary_elizabeth_bradford_podcast.mp3 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:16:36 -0400 Careers no 00:29:47 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton We didn't expect it. After all, who has time to worry about high-potential employees these days? We didn't expect it. After all, who has time to worry about high-potential employees these days? It takes considerable effort, patience and planning to focus on HiPos, and a lot of companies are otherwise preoccupied with the day-to-day urgency of surviving in a tough economy. But good companies have a way of going against the conventional wisdom, and several i4cp member organizations recently came to us with ideas for pulse surveys that focused primarily on the selection and development of future leaders. There are various reasons for this. First, in tough times, the need for effective leadership is greater than during the good times, when established organizations practically run themselves. If current leaders don't succeed in times of trouble, someone needs to be standing in the wings. Second, as many organizations conduct layoffs, they must identify and retain the people they most urgently need in order to run their businesses. And, in an era of tight budgets, management needs to know who to compensate at higher levels. Read more: "High Potentials Podcast | TotalPicture Radio - Career Advancement, Employment Trends, Recruiting and Leadership Development Podcast" - http://www.totalpicture.com http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/mark_vickers_hipro_podcast.mp3 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:39:43 -0400 Careers no 00:15:10 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Welcome to a Leadership Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio. Joining us today is Erika Andersen whose new book is titled Being Strategic: Plan for Success, Out-Think Your Competitors, Stay Ahead of Change. Erika is founder of Proteus International, a leadership consultancy. Erika has developed a reputation for creating learning and change processes and programs uniquely tailored to her clients’ challenges, goals, and culture. She and her colleagues at Proteus International offer practical methods and skills for individuals, teams, and companies to clarify and then achieve their hoped-for-future. Strategic is one of those buzzwords like innovation. I think most of us have sat in "strategy" meetings that could have been called "brainstorming" sessions or, in this economy, "hail mary" meetings. So my first question; "how do you define strategic?" Much of Erika's recent work has focused on organizational visioning and strategy, executive coaching, and management and leadership development. In these capacities she has served as consultant and advisor to the CEOs and top executives of a number of corporations, including MTV Networks, Regeneration Technologies, Inc., the French Culinary Institute, Rainbow Media Holdings, Union Square Hospitality Group, Lifetime Television, and Comcast Corporation. She has been invited to share her insights about managing people and creating successful businesses by speaking before a number of organizations, including corporations, non-profit groups and national associations. Her models, ideas and learning guides have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, German and French, and she has been quoted in a variety of national publications, including Glamour, Fortune and Training magazines. Read more: "Being Strategic - Erika Anderson | TotalPicture Radio - Career Advancement, Employment Trends, Recruiting and Leadership Development Podcast" - http://www.totalpicture.com http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/erika_anderson_podcast.mp3 Wed, 27 May 2009 14:06:47 -0400 Careers no 00:21:51 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton According to Donato Diorio, you cannot describe, on your resume, what you do in terms of the "one" of you. Donato is the founder and CEO of Broadlook Technologies, a pioneer in the field of internet research. Welcome to an Inside Recruiting edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. I had the opportunity to meet Donato Diorio, the founder and CEO of Broadlook Technologies at ERE Expo, and have held the interview we recorded at ERE until the release of Profiler X, which is being featured at Kennedy Information’s Recruiting Conference this week in Las Vegas. However, our interview covers far more than Profiler X, including Donato's blog post titled "The Art of the Elevator Pitch" Broadlook, a leader in lead generation and Internet research automation for sales, marketing and recruiting, launched Profiler X this month. An evolution in Sales and Marketing Intelligence, Profiler X brings together the best real-time Internet information and combines it with Hoover’s insight and analysis on the companies, industries and businesspeople that drive the economy, and popular social networking sites to deliver the most comprehensive real-time view of company and contact information available. Read more: "Donato Diorio Podcast | TotalPicture Radio - Career Advancement, Employment Trends, Recruiting and Leadership Development Podcast" - http://www.totalpicture.com/ http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/donato_diorio_podcast.mp3 Tue, 26 May 2009 15:11:27 -0400 Careers no 00:17:37 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Pete Johnson (Nerd Guru), is the Portals and Marketing Solutions IT Chief Architect at Hewlett-Packard, where he's worked since graduating from UC San Diego with a BSCS degree in 1993. Welcome to a Cool Careers channel podcast on Total Picture Radio, this is Peter Clayton reporting. Our good friend and frequent contributor to Total Picture Radio, Jason Alba, the founder of JibberJobber, recently connected me to Pete Johnson, whose blog is called Nerd Guru. Pete is currently the Portals and Marketing Solutions IT Chief Architect at Hewlett-Packard, where he's worked since graduating from UC San Diego with a BSCS degree in 1993. Pete used Linkedin Answers to pose the headline question: What’s your best career advice, using EXACTLY 6 words? Here's how Pete framed the question: In January around the time of the inauguration, the Bush daughters wrote the Obama daughters a letter giving them advice on living in the public eye inside the White House. The most widely quoted part of that letter was pretty touching, “Remember who your dad really is.” At about the same time, Newsweek ran a short story about a collection of 6 word memoirs put out by Smith Magazine on the topic of love. Given that Jenna and Barbara’s advice happened to be exactly 6 words long, and that I have an interest in mentoring, I thought it would make for an interesting experiment to see what people might come up with on the topic of career advice. So, what’s the best career advice you have, using EXACTLY 6 words? Pete received well over 100 responses to his question, and Scott Allen picked up the story on his About.com Entrepreneurs Blog. Stay tuned... Our exclusive interview with Pete will air Monday! Talking Points: How long have you been blogging? What is HP's policy toward employees blogging? Is it encouraged? What do you do as the Portals and Marketing Solutions IT Chief Architect? The key focus of your blog is to promote soft skills to engineers - nerds such as yourself. Tell us what inspired you to focus on soft skills, rather than computing wizadry? Using Linkedin Answers, you asked the following: What’s your best career advice, using EXACTLY 6 words? Why six words? What kind of response did you receive? You decided to create several groups from the responses? What were some of your favorite responses? What did you learn from this? Have you asked other career related questions through Linkedin Answers? For those who might be interested in a career with HP, what would you recommed? Read more: "Career Advice in 6 Words | TotalPicture Radio - Career Advancement, Employment Trends, Recruiting and Leadership Development Podcast" - http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/in-cue/career-advice-in-6-words.html#ixzz0FrqJ4XPi&A http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/pete_johnson_geek_guru_podcast.mp3 Mon, 18 May 2009 10:10:46 -0400 Careers no 00:16:22 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton The jobs we have now reqire innovation, creativity, they require a real strategic understanding of where the business is going and how we're going to get there. "How do we have the right mix of talent? How do we have a sustainable talent model? How do you right size an organization? -- The jobs we have now reqire innovation, creativity, they reqire a real strategic understanding of where the business is going and how we're going to get there... What's Different With This Recession? Manufacturing is Gone. It's Not Coming Back." Kevin Wheeler Welcome to a Inside Recruiting podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us today is Kevin Wheeler, founder and president of Global Learning Resources, and conference founder and lead of the Future of Talent Institute, a consortium of organizations and individuals who explore emerging issues in talent management, staffing, recruiting, employee development, retention and leadership development. Kevin is a globally known speaker, author, teacher and consultant in human capital acquisition and development, as well as in corporate education. He is the author of numerous articles on human resource development, career development, recruiting, and on establishing corporate universities. He is a frequent speaker at conferences. I had an opportunity to interview Kevin at the recent ERE Expo in San Diego. Kevin's interview is sponsored by hrmarketer.com http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/recruiting/kevin-wheeler-podcast.html http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/kevin_wheeler_podcast.mp3 Wed, 13 May 2009 15:38:26 -0400 Careers no 00:20:24 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Why did no one see the subprime crisis coming? Why does the casino always win at roulette? What are the odds of a coconut landing on your head? Author Robin Hogarth answers these questions, and many more. A new book titled Dance with Chance - Make Luck work for you - answers these questions and many more besides. More importantly, it shows us how to gain greater control over many aspects of our lives - by knowing just when to trust to luck. Joining us is one of its three authors Robin Hogarth. Think about it. Every day human beings make decisions. Some are important: should you invest your life savings in the stock market? Others are trivial: should you take an umbrella today? But in both these cases you have no control. The stock market will go up or down, it will rain or it won’t… and there’s nothing you can do about it. The problem comes when people seek to gain control by making predictions. By consulting an investment expert or a weather forecast, they think they can control the value of their investments or avoid getting wet. But this is just an illusion. An illusion that psychologists call ‘the illusion of control’. In many areas of life – the stock market and the weather are just two examples – accurate prediction just isn’t possible. There is always uncertainty about the future in most areas of our lives. Throw in some emotions, such as greed, fear and hope, and human beings’ predictions get even less accurate. So what are we to do? Talking Points: Robin, it's not usual for Hollywood screenplays to have three authors, but it is someone unusal for a non-fiction book. How did Dance with Chance come about? Let's return to my introduction: Why did no one see the subprime crisis coming? Right from your preface: Why do investment portfolios created by blindfolded monkeys throwing darts at stock listings often outperform those chosen by professional money mangers earning six figure salaires? Why do we overestimate our ability to predict future events and underextimate the influence of chance. Talk to us about the illusion of control. I what ways is the illusion of control influencing our response to the economic downturn. Given all of the research you and your co-authors did for Dance with Chance, what is the base way for the us to invest our money? What are the potential costs of thinking you have control over things you don't? In your book, you distinguish between two kinds of uncertainty - can you describe these for us? How do you advise people cope with uncertainty? How should your conclusions be used to inform decision-making? Why can't we rely on solid data bout the past to predict the future? Can you give us some examples in current news events that illustrate the illusion of control? Final question: How can you reap benefits from uncertainty? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/robin_hogarth_podcast.mp3 Mon, 11 May 2009 13:10:52 -0400 Careers no 00:18:26 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton From ERE Expo in San Diego, CA is the founder and Chief Talent Strategist of Talent Synchronicity, Susan Burns. "I think the most important lesson organizations can understand is that the conversation is happening with or without you." Welcome to an Inside Recruiting channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting from ERE Expo in San Diego, California. Joining us is the founder and Chief Talent Strategist of Talent Synchronicity, Susan Burns. Susan develops talent strategy solutions through an integrated alignment with core business functions and processes. Susan weaves together technology, social media, branding, P & L experience, and alignment with business directives to create intrinsic value in strategic recruitment and talent initiatives. Through hands-on experience in organizations of various size and brand visibility, Susan has delivered successful solutions around developing integrated recruitment strategies, employment brand differentiation, workforce/talent planning, university recruitment strategies, recruitment team structure and processes, and recruitment leader development. In addition to Talent Synchronicity, Susan is executive director for The Future of Talent - a community of senior talent leaders influencing the future of talent strategies to guide their organizations to achieve sustainable and competitive practices. Through an annual retreat, practitioners come together to design guiding forecasts and strategies in the areas of talent acquisition, branding, knowledge management, employee development, and leadership. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/susan_burns_talent_strategist_podcast.mp3 Wed, 06 May 2009 05:21:09 -0400 Careers no 00:29:12 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Maury Hanigan leads the team of experts that make up The Layoff Coach. Maury is a nationally recognized authority on employment, career development and hiring. "If you are laid off, you usually want two things. First, you want enough compensation to keep your bills paid until you find another job. Second, you want to find a new job as quickly as possible." Maury Hanigan Welcome to a Career Transition channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Maury Hanigan leads the team of experts that make up The Layoff Coach. As a nationally recognized authority on employment, career development and hiring, Maury brings more than 20 years experience to the position, and joins us today. Maury has designed career development, retention and recruiting programs that have impacted thousands of employees. She has consulted for corporations, universities and government agencies on a wide range of employment issues. Her clients include AT&T, Cargill, Cornell University, Computer Sciences Corporation, Exxon-Mobil, General Electric, IBM, Kraft Foods, Merck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Merrill Lynch, Pfizer, Pitney Bowes and Xerox. Maury is often consulted by the national business media for her assessment of employment issues. She has appeared on ABC World News, CBS Evening News, CNN, MSNBC and other national news programs. She is often quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Time, The Economist, USA Today and other leading business publications. Talking Points: Tell us about the Layoff coach. Other than yourself, who else is involved in the business? What is your background? You have a multimedia course called Sweetening the Deal - what does it cover? Is this a DVD or an online presentation? How much does it cost? If you're part of a mass layoff from a major corporation, is there anything you can do realistically, to "sweeten the deal?" What kinds of things can you ask for to sweeten the deal? How many years do you need to have worked for a company before having some leverage to negotiate a severance package? What if your company is filing for bankruptcy? If someone listening to this has signed a termination offer and is having second thoughts, is it possible to retract it? You mentioned Career Coaching -- you offer personalized, one-on-one consulting services? How does this work? Who performs the career coaching services? This is all done by phone? What else would you like listeners to know about Layoff Coach? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/maury_hanigan_layoff_coach_podcast.mp3 Tue, 05 May 2009 11:28:03 -0400 Careers no 00:22:09 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton ExecuNet has just released their comprehensive 17th Annual Executive Job Market Intelligence Report for 2009. Peter Clayton interviews Dave Opton, Founder and CEO, and Mark Anderson, President and Chief Economist Executives find themselves in two camps today. One group saw their businesses and their roles dissolve last fall and must reposition themselves for the future. The other group is employed but afraid to look at new opportunities. It’s important to be pragmatic and prepared, you don’t want to be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Complacency is not a good strategy.” Mark Anderson. Executive Job Market Intelligence 2009 is based on simultaneous national surveys of ExecuNet's executive members and the search firms and corporate recruiters who regularly use ExecuNet's services. In addition, they invited participation from the executive, search firm and corporate human resource communities of several strategic partner organizations: Forbes, UK based Goldjobs.com, Financial Executives International (FEI), Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG), and Dillistone Systems/Filefinder. “Corporate HR leaders are encouraging their teams and their hiring managers to conduct several prospective interviews each month. They recognize that economic necessity has forced many of them to cut and freeze their leadership teams to the bone, and they want to be prepared with the best talent available to meet the upturn. This is an important time to be connecting to companies you’d like to join, because you don’t know if they have a trade up they’d like to make or a position they want to be poised to fill.”- Dave Opton Talking Points: You've conducted The Executive Job Market Intelligence Report for 17 years. Give us an overview of whom you talk to. How do you define an executive? Is this a global survey? What questions do you ask? Regarding the search firm executives you survey, are these folks working in retained or contingency firms? I've heard that search assignments at recruiting firms are way down this year. Does your survey validate that? If we were to look at your surveys from the last recession, in the early 90's, what differences would we find? One of the metrics you track is recruiter confidence. Where does it stand? One of the things I heard from corporate recruiters at ERE last month: they felt this was an excellent time to upgrade their workforce -- weed out the dead wood and low performers. Does your survey uncover any of this kind of activity? Have the mass layoffs changed the bias toward hiring unemployed executives? Can someone with excellent skills without a job compete with a passive candidate? Where do recruiters predict industry growth? Let talk about geography. Has this shifted in the last year? Where are the jobs? One number we've seen shrink in the last decade is tenure. According to your current survey, what's the life expectancy of an executive in his or her current job What kind of compensation packages are being offered? Two other trends I've heard recently. Wondering if these are reflected in your survey. 1) Employees are cemented to their chairs. (Hard to get execs to move) and 2) it's taking much longer for companies to pull the trigger - and make an offer. Is the grey ceiling alive and well? (Is anyone over 50 getting hired?) How are executives finding jobs? What surprised you, if anything in this years' survey? Is the survey available to the public? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/execunet_job_survey_2009_podcast.mp3 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:33:36 -0400 Careers no 00:26:44 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Career Bailout Plan: Do’s and Don’ts for Guaranteed Faster Results in Today’s Job Market. "There are jobs. Employers are hiring." A Career Transition podcast. Peter Clayton interviews Debra Feldman "By re-engineering the search process and putting the candidate at the controls, prospective employees are able to get together with pre-qualified potential employers, establish meaningful dialogues that benefit both parties, progress to reach a decision and ultimately launch themselves into a new challenge. Networking is not about transactions, it's about building relationships." Debra Feldman. Welcome to a special Career Transition channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. We're delighted to have back with us today a frequent contributor and nationally-recognized expert who designs and personally implements swift, strategic, and customized senior level executive job search campaigns Debra Feldman. Debra is the JobWhiz. Talking points: We spoke about six months ago. What's changed in the last six months for job seekers? You work with senior level executives - give us a profile of whom you work with and what unique challenges they are confronting in this job market. The title of this podcast is Re-engineering the Job Search for Success in Today’s Economy -- I'm sure you get calls from desperate job seekers saying things like "I've been out of work for nine months - with not even one response to hundreds of job submissions... what are most of these people doing wrong? So let's start at the beginning. After recovering from the shock of being laid off, what's next? What resources are available a no or little cost to help with this process? Debra, as you know so may jobs being advertised are not even real jobs. How do you go about getting the attention of companies you've targeted? You've trademarked the term, Network Purposefully - what do you mean by that? What should people do who still have jobs to prepare for an unexpected termination? I've heard lots of HR managers and recruiters talking about project-based short term assignments. Do you think this is a good strategy to pursue? What would you like to share that we've not discussed? http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/career-transition/debra-feldman-job-search-update.html http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/debra_feldman_jobwhiz_podcast.mp3 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:48:23 -0400 Careers no 00:22:18 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Jennings' new book profiles and reveals the tactics and strategies of the American CEO's who've created the greatest amount of economic value since the year 2000. Welcome to a leadership channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us today from San Francisco is Jason Jennings, whose lastest book Hit the Ground Running, a Manual for new Leaders, was just published by Porfolio. The book profiles and reveals the tactics and strategies of the American CEO's who've created the greatest amount of economic value since the year 2000. Companies and CEO's profiled include: JM Smucker, Harris Corporation, Mohawk Industries, Humana, Goodrich, Hanover Insurance, Allegheny Technologies, Staples and Questar. Jason and his research team spent nearly three years identifying the companies and interviewing their CEO's. Jason says that as they studied the CEO's and companies three things became obvious: All of the CEOs produced results fast. They didn’t dawdle around for an eternity before making things happen. They truly hit the ground running. Each is guided by rules that defy conventional thinking. While they were able to diagnose underperformance quickly, stop any bleeding, build a plan, get buy-in and implement needed changes fast – their rules were different than those we’ve been told are the best practices of an aggressive, tough-minded, high achieving executive. They make everyone proud. What each CEO did and the rules they used to do it were right for investors, right for employees, right for the community, right for the short run and right for the long run. They didn’t need any spin or any "the ends justify the means" rationalizations. Talking Points How did you identify which leaders to profile? I'm assuming the companies you tracked were publicy traded? Why did you decide to take on this project? Who is the book intended for? What suprised you, when you were doing resarch for the book? Why do so many CEOs fail so miserably? I think the life expectancy of a new CEO is under 24 months in publically traded companies. One company and its leaders you profile is the J.M Smucker Company and Tim and Richard Smucker - co-CEOs I guess their the Farley brothers of corporate America, as well as the great-grandsons of the founders. Co-CEOs? I remember when Sandy Weil and John Reid were co-CEO of Citigroup. That didn't work out very well. In fact it was a disaster. How did the Smucker's pull this off? Talk to us about the communication styles and strategies of the leaders you profiled? Related to the title of your book, Hit the Ground Running - what did they do to be alble to accomplish this? Are there any traits which all of the leaders you profiled share in common? Did any of the leaders walk into snake pits? Turn-around situations? Can you share one or 2 stories that vividly illustrate their leadership styles and why they're so effective? How much does their ability to motivate their employees have to do with the companies performance? What can we learn from these executives regarding the current recession? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/jason_jennings_podcast.mp3 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:52:02 -0400 Careers no 00:27:26 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Peter Clayton interviews the CEO of Entice Labs, Ryan Caldwell. "A huge section of our network involves work related sites. So a perfect example is that when a java engineer is researching how to do some sort of Oracle implementation..." The reality is there are great candidates that are active and there are great candidates that are passive. And there are horrible candidates that are passive, we call them dead-wood candidates, they just kind of drift inside of a company...and we have horrible candidates that are active... so we have good and bad in both categories... what you want to find are the good quality candidates. The good quality candidates are typically improving their skills in some way shape or form." "A huge section of our network involves work related sites. So a perfect example is that when a java engineer is researching how to do some sort of Oracle implementation... when that ad comes up across our network it actually scrapes that page, it looks at the content, it looks at that person's profile... we look at their browsing history and we say this person has visited 20 technical sites that were highly relevant for this job... and they're currently researching what we consider a high-level article on this topic, this is a great candidate: display that ad to them." Ryan Caldwell Welcome to an Inside Recruiting podcast on Total Picture Radio. This is Peter Clayton Reporting. Joining us today is Ryan Caldwell, CEO of Entice Labs, based in Provo, Utah. I met several members of the Entice Labs team at ERE Expo last month, and if you’ve listened to our podcast with John Sumser and Jonathan Goodman, you’ve heard the Entice Labs name, because Sumser thinks this company is a game changer in the recruiting industry. That, of course, got my attention, and got me to set-up this interview. Talking Points: Give us your backstory. I checked your profile at Linkedin and saw you attended the Air Force Academy, flew around in F-16’s and studied Mandarin Chinese? How did Entice Labs get started? You’re backed by Omniture? How did you get hooked up with them? Your primary offering at Excite Labs is called TalentSeekr - what does it do? Who are your competitors? What results can you tell us about? You have two other recruiting products - one is called CareerAds - what’s that about? ReferMe - for Job Candidates and Friends? So it’s no surprise to anyone that we’re in a pretty nasty recession. It seems a lot more people are getting laid off or fired than are getting hired. How’s your business? As you know from hanging around the recruiting industry, the operative word is “passive candidate,” have you seen any shift in the stigma toward unemployed workers? Are you hiring? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/ryan_caldwell_entice_labs_podcast.mp3 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:40:34 -0400 Careers no 00:20:47 recruiting, HR, social networking, employment, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Message to recruiters: You Don't Create a Brand, You Have One. You Need to Message that Authentically. The state of the recruiting industry from one of its leaders. "I made a lot of enemies a couple of months ago when I went to a corporate sourcing conference and said, "Wow, this job's going to go away. The social networks have made the ability to communicate with people, that you wouldn't normally communicate, or have any network or association with available to you... Identifying or finding people is not the issue, right? It's predicting whether or not they're going to be successful in the role that you have available for them, and the future roles. And that's changed recruiting." Michael McNeal Welcome to an Inside Recruiting channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting from ERE Expo in San Diego, California. Joining us is Michael McNeal, the Vice President of Right Talent for Intuit, Inc., the maker of industry-leading business and financial management products which include TurboTax, Quicken, and QuickBooks. Talking Points: Michael, I'ld like to start by having you give us an overview of what has changed in the recruiting and staffing industry since the last ERE Expo here in San Diego in 2008? How has the recession impacted Intuit? Are you recruiting? Are you looking to hire people at Intuit? You moderated a session today that I really liked alot because people were being extremely transparent about what was going on within the recruiting industry within their own companies... The level of communication within organizations seems to be much greater. How has the social networks, the Twitters, Facebook, Linkedin changed the recruiting function within Intuit? There are companies that still think they can "control the message" to some extent, and when you look at sites like Glassdoor.com and Vault.com, and all the things that are going on with Facebook and Linkedin and the amount of transparency that exists, there really are no secrets any more. Are people becoming more comfortable with e-Filing? With posting all of their personal information online? What has surprised you, or impressed you at this conference? It seems that recruiters really do have a mind-shift from viewing what they do from a transactional "time to fill" role to becoming far more strategic. The way companies think about talent is changing. Look at Twitter, or the iPhone. What do you see a year from now, as far as the recruiting industry? http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/in-cue/michael-mcneal-talent-at-intuit.html http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/michael_mcneal_intuit_podcast.mp3 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:01:08 -0400 Careers no 00:16:14 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Top workplace expert Martha Finney brings together all the answers you need to empower yourself and regain mastery over your own life. You’ve just lost your job. (Or you’re expecting to.) You know you’re not alone: Millions of great people are losing their jobs these days. But this is you we’re talking about. Losing your job can turn your life upside down. It can mess with your mind, your heart, your health, your family life...not to mention your financial security. Losing your job is just plain painful. Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss will help you get through the trauma-–and come out stronger, smarter, better. Top workplace expert Martha Finney brings together all the answers you need to empower yourself and regain mastery over your own life. Drawing on powerful insights and personal stories from an enormous network of experts, she answers questions like: How do I protect my finances? How do I get past the anger, alienation, and isolation? Why haven’t I heard from my coworkers? What are my rights? Can I get a better severance package? Can I sue? Should I? How do I stay on my career path and keep my options open? How can I objectively evaluate a new job offer? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/martha_finney_rebound_podcast.mp3 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:40:02 -0400 Careers no 00:29:10 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton The debate over Employee Engagement: "With managers it's not about being tough or nice - it's about whether they can fix organizational problems and keep things running well." With managers it's not about being tough or nice - it's about whether they can fix organizational problems and keep things running well. As long as companies are finding solid evidence confirming the performance-engagement link, they shouldn't be afraid to measure or make it a high priority, especially in tough times. This applies not just to HR but to all managers." Mark Vickers Welcome to our continuing TrendWatcher podcast series here on Total Picture Radio - this is Peter Clayton reporting. TPR has formed a strategic alliance with The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), allowing us to publish on our site the compete weekly research report in their TrendWatcher initiative, as well as record a weekly interview with the lead author of the article. Joining us today from St Petersburg, FL, is Mark Vickers, vice-president of research at i4cp. Today's podcast is titled Are You Too Nice for Your Job?-- covering the debate concerning employee engagement. Talking Points: What has the research you’ve done at i4cp say about employee retention? Mark a couple of interviews I’ve conduced recently fit nicely into the discussion of eI interviewed John Sumser at ERE in San Diego last month, and he had an interesting take: basically, that employee retention programs were not worth much, because after five years in the same job, people really need to move on. Your thoughts? Employee engagement, it’s importance and the general assumption that HR is “too nice” . In your TrendWatcher, you quote Rutgers University's Richard Beatty Another interesting ERE chat - with Neal Bruce, SVP at First Advantage of they’re employer services division. We were discussing the binge and purge hiring mentality, which gets to the core of your Are You Too Nice for Your Job? TrendWatcher. Part of Neal’s view is very sophisticated analytics now exist, within the suite of services First Advantage and other organizations provide, to allow companies to do a much better job of talent management. What has your research shown? You write: Another new i4cp survey looks at HR metrics and analytics, and it reveals that there's a lot going on. Give us some examples. To quote Drucker: “What gets measured gets managed.” Part of Neal’s view is very sophisticated analytics now exist, within the suite of services First Advantage and other organizations provide, to allow companies to do a much better job of talent management. What has your research shown? How has the economy factored into employee engagement? One interesting point you make: I think part of the problem is that some people conflate "engaging employees" with "always being nice" to them. One of the companies you site in your TrendWatcher is 3M. What has been their experience with employee engagement? Have you been able to track employee engagement to earnings? How about productivity? (It seems obvious that engaged employees would be more productive, but do you have any numbers? What has surprised you, if anything in researching "Are You Too Nice for Your Job"? http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/trendwatcher/trendwatcher-employee-engagement.html http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/trendwatcher_engagement_mark_vickers.mp3 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:54:32 -0400 Careers no 00:18:12 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton GreenJobInterview.com is a new browser-based, point-and-click video interviewing technology. Peter Clayton interviews the president and founder of GreenJobInterview, Greg Rokos, at ERE Expo in San Diego. Welcome to an Inside Recruiting channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us from Newport Beach CA is the president and founder of GreenJobInterview.com Greg Rokos. I had an opportunity to meet Greg, and see a demo of GreenJobInterview.com at ERE Expo in San Diego. According to Rokos, "Companies typically spend an average of $650 to $2,000 for an initial interview with a job candidate when travel outside the local area is involved. Now, they can set up a live, real-time GreenJobInterview and see candidates face-to-face with NO travel and without having to leave their desks." You can conduct a 60-minute virtual interview using GreenJobInterview.com for less than $100. GreenJobInterview.com is a new browser-based, point-and-click video interviewing technology. It is an on-demand service that requires no long-term contracts or minimum usage. It operates with only a webcam that is provided by GreenJobInterview.com to both the client company and the job candidate. According to your web site, Greg, "GreenJobInterview.com was created as part of what we see as a better way — using new technologies like video, the Internet, and most significantly, a new concept in point-and-click virtual interviewing to reduce the cost and time to hire." Talking Points: Greg, give us some background on your technology and service. How does it work? I would assume many job candidates wouldn’t have a web cam. Now what? If you want to do video conferencing, why not use something like Skype or iChat? Many companies use phone screens before bringing a job candidate in for an interview, why is important to add a video component? Is it possible to add custom branding to your gui? Whose using GreenJobInterview.com? What kind of feedback have you received? Have you been able to estimate the cost savings using GreenJobInterview.com? How about carbon footprint? I’ve talked with a number of HR professionals about video resumes -- and they immediately bring up EEOC concerns - because they can see a job applicant could expose them to discrimination law suits -- how have you addressed these issues? Of course, Greg, your service relies on the fact that companies are hiring. So what kind of reception are you getting as you market GreenJobInterview.com? As I mentioned in the open, you demoed GreenJobInterview.com at ERE Expo - and you had quite a draw, since Kevin Costner was brought into the ballroom at the San Diego Convention Center through your application. How did you get Costner involved? What are some pointers you give your clients for using your technology? How about a job candidate? What advice can you share for someone about to participate in a GreenJobInterview.com interview? http://www.totalpicture.com/shows/recruiting/greg-rokos-greenjobinterview.com.html http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/greg_rokos_greenjobinterview_podcast.mp3 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:30:21 -0400 Careers no 00:17:40 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton First Advantage Employer Services provides a comprehensive suite of employer solutions specifically designed to reduce the time and cost associated with recruiting, hiring management, screening and ongoing retention processes. Welcome to an Inside Recruiting channel podcast on Total Picture Radio. This is Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us here in San Diego at ERE Expo is Neal Bruce, SVP of Product Management at First Advantage — a leading risk mitigation and business solutions provider, with tens of thousands of clients globally. First Advantage offers a dynamic array of innovative, information-driven solutions, infused with insight and enhanced by leading-edge technologies. On his Linkedin page, Neal describes himself as "Visionary type guy that likes to take on impossible projects. I especially like large scale change management/cultural adaptation projects." Neal’s favorite phrase, "Thoughts are a prerequisite for Thought Leadership." Neal Bruce joined the First Advantage’s Employer Services division as the Senior Vice President of Product in April of 2008. In this role, Neal is focusing on Product Strategy and Innovation. Backstory... In June 2003, First Advantage was formed by the merger of the Screening segment of The First American Corporation and U.S. Search.com. First Advantage has evolved and grown to be one of the nation's leading single source providers of risk mitigation and business process solutions for thousands of clients. Since June of 2003, First Advantage has acquired dozens of best-in-class companies to complement their core business lines and broaden their products and services. These companies have been brought together under one brand name: First Advantage. Neal's Backstory... Prior to First Advantage, Neal spent nearly five years with Monster, the flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc. At Monster, Neal’s roles included Product Director, VP of Alliances, and VP of Monster’s Global Innovation Group. Neal joined Monster after spending 11 years in recruiting roles moving from recruiter, to recruiting manager, to director of global staffing. Neal has served on the Board of Directors of HRsmart. He has also served as a member of Human Capital Institute’s talent acquisition board and ASU’s Center for Services Leadership Board of Advisors. As a leader in the HR industry, Neal is a regular public speaker on the topic of human capital and has been quoted in several periodicals, including Forbes magazine, the Arizona Republic newspaper, and the Wall Street Journal’s CareerJournal.com. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/neal_bruce_first_advantage_podcast.mp3 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:29:37 -0400 Careers no 00:27:28 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton John Sumser is a legend and leader in the recruiting industry - he’s currently CEO of Two Color Hat, Director at Salary.com and Executive Editor at Recruiting.com - Jonathan Goodman, VP of business and membership development at Fisher Vista LLC Welcome to a Big Picture edition of Total Picture Radio, this is Peter Clayton reporting from ERE Expo in San Diego, California. John Sumser is a legend and leader in the recruiting industry - he’s currently CEO of Two Color Hat, Director at Salary.com and Executive Editor at Recruiting.com - his bolg -- always interesting and provocative is johnsumser.com, and I’m delighted to have him back on Total Picture Radio. Also joining us for this converation is Jonathan Goodman, VP of business and membership development at Fisher Vista LLC, which owns HRMarketer.com and the recently launched SeniorCareMarketer.com. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/john_sumser_jonathan_goodman_ereexpo_podcast.mp3 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:30:54 -0400 Careers no 00:33:55 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton David Meerman Scott is a online thought leadership and viral marketing strategist and the author of four books on marketing. Based in Boston, he is a speaker at conferences and corporate events and runs seminars about marketing around the world. "A World Wide Rave is when people around the world are talking about you, your company, and your products. Whether you’re located in San Francisco, Dubai, or Reykjavík, it’s when global communities eagerly link to your stuff on the Web. It’s when online buzz drives buyers to your virtual doorstep. And it’s when tons of fans visit your Web site and your blog because they genuinely want to be there." David M. Scott Welcome to a Success Strategies Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio. This is Peter Clayton Reporting. David Meerman Scott is a online thought leadership and viral marketing strategist and the author of four books on marketing. Based in Boston, he is a speaker at conferences and corporate events and runs seminars about marketing around the world. I had an opportunity to interview David last year at PodCamp3 Boston — a podcast titled You and Me: Interrupted? I don't think so. The interview is in the Success Strategies channel and I encourage you to check it out. David’s latest book is titled World Wide Rave: Creating Triggers that Get Millions of People to Spread Your Ideas and Share Your Stories and since David launched the new book at South-by-Southwest, he’s taken the book on a world-wide tour to prove the concept. Talking Points First - how do you define a World Wide Rave? Can you share with us some of the principles you’ve used straight from your book to promote your book? You had a WWR tweetup at NASDAQ? How did that happen? I was telling someone in my age group - a boomer about this I was in San Diego recently and interviewed the CMO of JobAngels Cheree Klimek. I thought about your book when I was speaking with her, because JobAngels was created by one Twitter tweet posted by Mark Stelzner, an HR consultant in DC. On you worldwiderave.com You’ve chronicled some Rave success stories - give us a sample. The Six Rules of the Rave you outline in your book - I’d like you to ellaborate on a couple of them First Nobody cares about your products (but you) Loose Control (we touched on this topic the last time we spoke) ladies and gentleman in corporate PR you do not control the message. I’m sorry. It’s over. Create Triggers - certainly the tweet that launched JobAngels is a trigger - can you give us some other examples. The very last piece of advice in your book is “Quit Your Job” a rather audacious statement in this economy. However I share the pain you write about because I hear it everyday. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/david_m_scott_world_wide_rave.mp3 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:14:43 -0400 Careers no 00:22:08 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton As corporate vice president for Microsoft's Human Resources Talent & Organization Capability group, Scott Pitasky is responsible for global staffing, talent management, development, organization capability and aspects of the company’s learning agenda. There's no question if you look out the next 12 to 18 months, we will hire thousands of people to Microsoft around the world." Welcome to a Inside Recruiting Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. As corporate vice president for Microsoft's Human Resources Talent & Organization Capability group, Scott Pitasky is responsible for global staffing, talent management, development, organization capability and aspects of the company’s learning agenda. This broad role includes all efforts to establish Microsoft's employment brand, acquire talent anywhere in the world, and once acquired manage and develop people to achieve their fullest potential. This work spans the employee and manager population up to and including work with the senior leadership team and Board of Directors. Pitasky came to Microsoft in August 2001, and has served as director, senior director and general manager of MSN, the Server & Tools group and Global Staffing, respectively. In our exclusive Total Picture Radio interview, Scott discusses Microsoft's plan to turn on a global career site this summer. "No matter where you are in the world, you will be able to find jobs at Microsoft." Scott Pitasky http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/scott_pitasky_ereexpo_interview.mp3 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:04:59 -0400 Careers no 00:13:56 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton In a world of changing business practices and uncertain futures, Me 2.0 offers practical and proven advice about personal branding from an authority on the matter. An exclusive 30 minute interview on Total Picture Radio Welcome to an Online Savvy Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio. This is Peter Clayton Reporting. Dan Schawbel is the the author of “Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success.” Dan is the founder of the award winning Personal Branding Blog, publisher of Personal Branding Magazine, head judge for the Personal Brand Awards and director of Personal Branding TV. In his day job, Dan is a Social Media Specialist at EMC Corporation. In true Gen Y fashion, Dan does not have a landline phone, so we’re conducting this interview on his cell phone. My first question: Dan, as you know there are lots and lots of books out there on personal branding 3,819 - according to Amazon.com -what makes yours unique? In a world of changing business practices and uncertain futures, Me 2.0 offers practical and proven advice about personal branding from an authority on the matter. In the first book about personal branding written for the millennial generation by a millennial, Dan Schawbel bridges the gap between the current business climate and the progressive best practices of the future. Covering a variety of topics all crafted to improve one’s success in the job market, Schawbel proves that just being in the game is not enough, and that one’s success lies in being ahead of the game. Some highlights from the book include: A proven 4-step process for building a powerful brand (discover, create, communicate, maintain). Tips on using social media tools for personal empowerment, confidence building, and professional networking in order to attract jobs directly to you, without applying! Tested advice on how to create an online and offline presence for career protection and self-promotion. Over 40 expert quotes from leaders including Don Tapscott, Guy Kawasaki More than 70 research reports, three personal case studies and examples to give you a broader perspective on the topic. Bottom line: This is the handbook for surviving and thriving in the digital age. Presently, Dan is a Social Media Specialist at EMC Corporation, which is one of the leading technology companies in the world. Dan is a featured contributor to Mashable.com, a top 10 blog in the world and LifeHack.org, and has written for BrandWeek Magazine and Advertising Age. In total, his personal branding advice reaches over 300,000 people weekly! He’s also interviewed over 100 successful business people and celebrities, such as Marcus Buckingham, Gary Vaynerchuk, Gina Bianchini, Don Tapscott, Guy Kawasaki, and Tucker Max. He’s been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, ABC News, MSNBC and the Boston Globe. Dan has 8 years of marketing experience, employed at companies such as EMC, Reebok, Lycos, LoJack, and TechTarget. He is on the board of advisers for a geo-social network company called ((Echo)) MyPlace. Also, Dan is keynote speaker at colleges and universities and helps individuals and companies with branding. He was even invited to be one of the inaugural marketing speakers at Google. Dan graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bentley University in 2006. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/dan_schawbel_personal_branding_podcast.mp3 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:02:23 -0400 Careers no 00:31:56 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton ZoomInfo a comprehensive source of business information on people and companies, announced enhancements to SMB and midmarket company data that provides additional breadth of coverage. Peter Clayton interviews their VP & GM of Enterprise Solutions According to the Small Business Administration, since the mid-1990s, small businesses have created 60 to 80 percent of the net new jobs. However, intelligence and information well organized and easily found on the Web has been sorely lacking. Welcome to an Online Savvy Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. If you’ve ever wondered what your career options are with a Ph.D in American history, today’s guest is the man to ask. Joining us from Waltham, Mass is Chip Terry, vice president and general manager of ZoomInfo's Enterprise Solutions. Chip joined ZoomInfo last year and is responsible for the strategic direction and overall management of Enterprise Solutions, including the company's flagship Recruiting and Sales Products. Chip, welcome to Total Picture Radio. Chip: Peter, thank you for having me, I really appreciate it. Peter: This month, ZoomInfo, a comprehensive source of business information on people and companies announced enhancements to SMB and mid-market company data that provides additional breadth of coverage and depth of insight, including descriptions, revenues, number of employees, locations and other information on public, private and non-commercial entities alike. So your first assignment, Chip, is to put what I just extracted from one of your press releases into plain English, what am I talking about here? Chip: What you're talking about is the most robust and most fluid part of our economy today. We all hear today about those companies that are getting bailouts from the federal government, that are going under or whatnot, but the reality is the really exciting things in the job market are happening well below the level of Merrill Lynch; they're happening down at those 500 person companies that are doing really innovative things today, that are going to be the next huge Fortune 1000 company, who are going to be bought out by a much bigger company, and those are the places where they're hiring today. Those are the places that recruiters are spending a lot of time focused on and it is honestly, the hardest place in the world to find information about all these companies, even in your own town, much less if you're looking at a much broader geographic area. Peter: Why is that, Chip? I mean for years it's been easy to go on to ZoomInfo or Hoovers or LinkedIn and find the Fortune 1000 companies. Why has it been so difficult to get information about some of these smaller companies, the under Fortune 1000 companies? (Full transcript can be found at www.totalpicture.com http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/chip_terry_zoominfo_podcast.mp3 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:11:58 -0400 Careers no 00:16:40 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Welcome to an Online Savvy podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Shally Steckerl is a talent acquisition consultant, strategist, and speaker: Peter Clayton's exclusive interview with the CyberSleuth at ERE Expo 2009 Shally Steckerl - Interest Generation: Being Always On Through Social Networks and Recruiting An exclusive interview with the CyberSleuth at ERE Expo 2009 Welcome to an Online Savvy podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Shally Steckerl is a talent acquisition consultant, strategist, and speaker originally from Colombia, South America, now residing in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Steckerl is the Founder and Chief CyberSleuth of JobMachine, Inc. (jobmachine.net), the premier provider of sourcing consulting services and workforce development. Early in his career Mr. Steckerl realized that as a contingency recruiter he could beat the competition by finding people who were not available in mainstream sources. Since then he has been instrumental in building numerous world class sourcing and research organizations. Because of his passion for the Internet as a recruitment tool and his continually innovative methods, Mr. Steckerl has developed a reputation as one of the most respected authorities in passive candidate research and talent pipeline development worldwide. A pioneer in recruitment Internet research, accomplished author and celebrated speaker, he is a regular contributor to many industry publications. Mr. Steckerl is frequently requested to present at leading domestic and international recruiting conferences and conduct private workshops. Mr. Steckerl now spends his time consulting with organization interested in building passive candidate pipeline generation and recruitment teams, and developing their advanced sourcing skills. Peter Clayton sat down with Shally at the conclusion of ERE Expo Spring 2009 in San Diego. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/shally_steckerl_ere_expo_podcast.mp3 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:05:42 -0400 Careers no 00:30:28 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton The good folks at ERE gave Charee Klimek the main stage at ERE Expo 2009 in San Diego this week to tell the remarkable story of JobAngels how one compassionate "Tweet" on Twitter gave birth to a national movement to help put people back to work Every So Often, One's Faith in Humankind in Rekindled. Charee Klimek, Chief Marking Officer, Guardian Angel of JobAngels lightens up the crowd at ERE Expo "JobAngels mission is to help bring people together in a community setting where each person commits to a single goal: to help just one person find gainful employment. That person can be a friend, a family member, a colleague or a complete stranger. All it takes is one person helping one other person find a job. We are nimble, innovative, determined and impassioned to drive this movement and develop a fully operational non-profit entity that enables a new generation of talent networking that is both meaningful and results-oriented." The good folks at ERE gave Charee Klimek the main stage at ERE Expo 2009 in San Diego this week to tell the remarkable story of JobAngels - how one compassionate "Tweet" on Twitter gave birth to a national movement to help put people back to work. Simple, sincere, and profound. Peter Clayton, producer/host of Total Picture Radio was able to catch-up with Charee after her presentation to share her story in this Big Picture podcast. http://www.totalpicture.com/content/view/814/190/ http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/charee_klimek_jobangels_podcast.mp3 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:53:18 -0400 Careers no 00:16:16 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Kirk Nemer is CEO of Career Protection — an employment attorney who specializes in employment and severance agreements, and has been negotiating them for the past 21 years. “Getting laid off is rarely something you can control. But what you can control is how you leave a company — and, most importantly, the size and terms of your severance package.” Kirk Nemer Kirk Nemer, J.D., SPHR Severance Plans Face Squeeze Amid Scramble to Preserve Cash is the title of a recent Wall Street Journal article by Sarah Needleman: "Some 20% of companies polled in December by Hewitt Associates Inc., said they plan to change severance policies and 31% are considering such a move," she writes. "Hewitt's survey found that 43% of firms planning severance-policy changes expect to reduce cash payments, while 21% intend to trim other benefits. Similarly, a survey conducted earlier this year by Hay Group Inc., shows that 61% of employers planning or considering changes aim to do so by downgrading their offerings to laid-off workers." Welcome to a Big Picture Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Kirk Nemer is CEO of Career Protection — an employment attorney who specializes in employment and severance agreements, and has been negotiating them for the past 21 years. As we all know, highly skilled and professional employees across the U.S. are being laid off in droves. It seems everyday another major company announces another several thousand staff cuts. In January, nearly 240,000 workers received pink slips, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' mass layoff data, which tracks instances in which companies lay off 50 or more employees--a nearly 60% increase from a year-ago. The number of jobless Americans rose to 12.5 million in February, pushing the unemployment rate to 8.1%, up from 7.6% in January, the Labor Department said -- the highest in 26 years. Talking Points How does an employee begin to negotiate a severance package in this environment? So if you are laid off, how can you make sure you get the best severance package? One thing we discussed the last time you were on the show... your company will try to get you to sign a severance agreement immediately. What's your advice? The Severance Agreement states that employees should seek advice and consult an attorney—should they?? You have an interesting article on your website called The 8 Biggest Severance Package Mistakes. I'd like you to respond to a couple of these... "I'm an at-will employee so I cannot get severance pay". "My company is bankrupt or is being acquired, so no severance pay". Unemployment Benefits: How does Severance Pay affect unemployment compensation? Can you explain to our listeners the WARN Act? If someone listening to our show want's to discuss their situation with your firm, how much does an initial consultation cost? http://www.totalpicture.com/content/view/802/190/ http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/kirk_nemer_career_protection_podcast.mp3 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:41:29 -0400 Careers no 00:26:04 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Gretchen Rubin, the author of the forthcoming book, The Happiness Project, an account of the year she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, the current scientific studies, and the lessons from pop culture about how to be happy. Welcome to a Success Strategies podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us from New York is Gretchen Rubin, the author of the forthcoming book, The Happiness Project, an account of the year she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, the current scientific studies, and the lessons from pop culture about how to be happy. On Slate, Huffington Post, RealSimple.com, and on her blog, The Happiness Project, she writes about her daily adventures as she tries to be happier. Rubin received her undergraduate and law degrees from Yale and was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. She clerked on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and served as a chief adviser to Federal Communications Commissions Chairman Reed Hundt. For many years she taught a seminar at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management. She lives in New York City. Talking Points: First, you have a law degree from Yale; why aren't you sitting in some big firm in NYC? What is the Happiness Project and why did you decide to focus on this research? What have you learned about happiness? What have you found most useful? What has not worked for you? There's a lot of people out there having trouble being happy, because they just lost their job. What advice would you give them? There are a lot of grim faces on the streets of NYC these days.. On your blog you've listed your Twelve Commandments: which offer a lot of insight into who you are, and how you want to live your life. How did you discover these, and how have these helped you? One of the Twelve I'd like you to expand on is Act the way I want to feel. What are some of your tips for Do it Now - helping people avoid procrastination. (Something I'm an expert in) You blog every day. How are you so disciplined to be able to do that, and keep it interesting? What is your Resolutions Chart and how has it helped you? You have some great ideas for getting out of a funk - what you call an "happiness emergency" can you share some of those with us? For those in the audience who would like to start their own Happiness Project, what are the first steps? Gretchen Rubin Biography: Gretchen Craft Rubin is the author of Forty Ways to Look at JFK and the bestselling Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill. Each biography plays with the biography form to capture the crucial aspects of the subject's oversized character and life. Her first book, Power Money Fame Sex: A User’s Guide, assumed the shape of a self-help satire to expose and analyze the techniques exploited by strivers for those worldly ambitions. Rubin received her undergraduate and law degrees from Yale and was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. She clerked on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and served as a chief adviser to Federal Communications Commissions Chairman Reed Hundt. For many years she taught a seminar at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management. She lives in New York City. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/gretchen_rubin_happiness_project_podcast.mp3 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:01:30 -0400 Careers no 00:27:33 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Pink Slip parties are springing up like, well, Spring -- across the country. Several nights ago, I visited one such party organized by my friend and business associate, Chris Russell. Welcome to a Career Transitions podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Pink Slip parties are springing up like, well, Spring -- across the country. You can track much of this activity on SlipSquad. Several nights ago, I visited one such party organized by my friend and business associate, Chris Russell. The FairfieldCountyJobs.com second Pink Slip Party, held in Norwalk, Connecticut, maxed-out the fire marshall occupancy at the Black Bear with over 300 attendees. Fourteen companies recruited at the event; looking for sales, IT professionals, office managers, admin assistants, financial advisers, marketing reps, accounting, investment counselors, and other management level positions. Hey! Real jobs with real companies. The event was sponsored by OperationsInc's 'Job Search Essentials' workshop for job seekers and JobRadio.fm the career advice internet radio station. I spoke with David Lewis, President/Founder of OperationsInc at the event. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/david_lewis_operations_inc_podcast.mp3 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:00:16 -0400 Careers no 00:19:14 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton HigherEdJobs.com has one of the largest job databases focused exclusively on college and university positions. Joining us is the president and co-founder of HigherEdJobs.com, John Ikenberry. "For higher education in the USA, adversity is going to be the stimulus to careful review of mission. I have always thought that a university budget is one of the most philosophical of documents -- for it tends to cut through polemics and oratory to give a glimpse, albeit blurred, of a college's or university's genuine priorities. Today it means colleges and universities are going to have to step away from the temptation of the past five or six years in which they have enjoyed an abundance of student applications, deceptively and transient high returns in endowments, and reasonable funding from state governments and/or foundations. More and more thoughtful private fund raising will be one obvious response -- as will careful review of what is essential and what is marginal in its various offerings and activities. Allow me to preface my comments by declaring my perspective. Some professors see campus administration as expendable and unimportant. I don't share that view." - Dr. John Thelin, Professor of Education, University of Kentucky, from an interview with Andrew Hibel, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of HigherEdJobs.com. Talking Points In reading your biography, it seems HigherEdJobs was born out of necessity. How is the recession impacting the job market in higher education? Is anyone out there in your world hiring? Is this an equal opportunity recession? Meaning both state run and private colleges and universities are feeling the same pain. Many of us are struggling to send our kids to college -- and it seems scholarships and tuition assistance has evaporated. Has there been a decrease in enrollment at colleges and universities? Do you know of any initiatives underway to financially assist students? Alumni associations have always played an important role in fund raising. Do you know how the recession has affected donations? In higher education, can any parallels be drawn between what’s going on today and the recessions of the 70’s or 80’s? There have been many press reports surrounding the very controversial decision made by Brandeis University to sell its very extensive and valuable art collection and close its art museum. Do you know of any other institutions taking such draconian measures? How has this announcement being viewed by college and university administrators? What are the projections for the balance of this year and into 2010 regarding higher ed employment? Any bright spots? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/john_ikenberry_podcast.mp3 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:58:52 -0400 Careers no 00:14:46 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton In Collapse of Distinction: Stand out and Move up While Your Competition Fails - Scott McKain reveals how companies and individuals can stand out in the marketplace because of – not in spite of – a less-than-robust economy. For many businesses, the economic downturn has meant fewer customers, smaller revenues and in many cases, layoffs and closures. Numerous organizations have decided to scale back operations, hoping to lie low until the crisis is over. What I call the hunker down, fade into oblivion strategy. Welcome to a Leadership Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Reporting. In Collapse of Distinction: Stand out and Move up While Your Competition Fails best-selling author and business thinker Scott McKain reveals how companies and individuals can stand out in the marketplace because of – not in spite of – a less-than-robust economy. "If you cannot find it within yourself to become emotional, committed, engaged, and yes, fervent about differentiation, then you had better be prepared to take your place among that vast throng of the mediocre who are judged by their customers solely on the basis of price. It is the singularly worst place to be in all of business. If you aren't willing to create distinction for yourself in your profession--and for your organization in the marketplace--then prepare to take your seat in the back, with the substantial swarm of the similar, where tedium reigns supreme." Scott McKain Talking Points What was your inspiration for writing this book, and who is it for? What, in your opinion, what are the primary contributing factors that lead to the collapse of distinction that you write about? So how is a bad economy good for business, Scott? (I imagine GM, Ford, Chrysler, SFA, Citi, Barney Frank and a multitude of others would disagree with your assessment.) You take on Jim Collins best selling book “Good to Great” asserting that a number of the companies he profiles in the book are not so great after all. Why? Let’s say I called you and said, “Scott, I want you to give a speech next month to the National Association Newspaper Publishers.” We’re talking about an industry in free fall Scott. What would you tell them? I want to spend some time talking about the four cornerstones of distinction you identify: clarity, creativity, communication, and finally, customer experience. Let’s start with clarity. Who are You. (Creating your high concept) Let’s talk about creativity. (What comes to my mind is Apple) I seen a few examples over the past year of large companies forming “innovation teams” - although well intentioned, these efforts are so wrong. I’m sure you’ve run into these with some of your clients. You know, Scott, I’ve been talking to very accomplished, highly educated executives who, for the first time in their lives are unemployed and looking for a job. What advice can you give them? Communication: back to my hunkering down introduction. Saying nothing in this economy is poisonous. Sales Cure Everything? Something I’ve been talking quite a bit is the benefit of “Story” - What’s your perspective? What is the difference between customer service and customer experience? I’m sure there are some listeners saying to themselves “my company is on the wrong side of this interview.” What can someone do, who is not in a leadership role, to implement the actions and ideas we’ve been talking about? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/scott_mcKain_podcast.mp3 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:54:14 -0400 Careers no 00:37:40 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Career Transition Podcast: "I always used to say people hired for two reasons: you can make me money or you can save me money, and now it’s can you stop the bleeding?" Kathy Simmons Welcome to a Career Transition Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio. This is Peter Clayton Reporting. Kathy Simmons is the guiding force behind NETSHARE and its ongoing evolution as a Web-based community for executives who are seeking jobs as well as opportunities to network with their peers and build a personal "brand" online. Simmons has made it her mission to help NETSHARE members harness the Internet to advance their careers. "The greatest line I heard recently was when someone said, 'no matter what your job was before, you’re in sales now.' And you have to think of it that way, you have to think of it in terms of I’m a product, what’s my unique value proposition? " "So now you’ve identified what your product is. Then you look at who needs my product? That’s your market from which you develop your list of target companies. I always used to say people hired for two reasons: you can make me money or you can save me money, and now it’s can you stop the bleeding?" Sunday, 22 March 2009 Report from the Trenches: A Conversation with Kathy Simmons, President & CEO of NETSHARE "I always used to say people hired for two reasons: you can make me money or you can save me money, and now it’s can you stop the bleeding?" Kathy Simmons Kathy Simmons Welcome to a Career Transition Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio. This is Peter Clayton Reporting. Kathy Simmons is the guiding force behind NETSHARE and its ongoing evolution as a Web-based community for executives who are seeking jobs as well as opportunities to network with their peers and build a personal "brand" online. Simmons has made it her mission to help NETSHARE members harness the Internet to advance their careers. "The greatest line I heard recently was when someone said, 'no matter what your job was before, you’re in sales now.' And you have to think of it that way, you have to think of it in terms of I’m a product, what’s my unique value proposition? " "So now you’ve identified what your product is. Then you look at who needs my product? That’s your market from which you develop your list of target companies. I always used to say people hired for two reasons: you can make me money or you can save me money, and now it’s can you stop the bleeding?" At totally different kind of interview: Stay Tuned... Kathy's exclusive interview will air Monday! Free Trade/Industry Magazine Subscriptions, Book Summaries and White Papers NETSHARE is a membership-based organization "dedicated to providing executives and professionals across all disciplines and industries, with quality $100K plus job listings, networking opportunities, and a community of peers for the exchange of strategic information related to job search, professional development and best practices." Talking Points What's changed in the last six months in the Netshare world, Kathy? Do you have any "quality 100k job listings?" You were telling me about the fact that Netshare is getting so many first time job seekers - people who have always been recruited and now don't have a clue what to do next? What advice are you giving them? What's happening with NETSHARE monthy open forums? You hold these across the country? Any geographic trends you can share with us? You wrote on your blog recently that it may be better to look for work than look for a career -- a Portable Career? Another blog article I'd like to discuss - The Sweet Smell of Success - a memeber had four job offers recended because of the economy - the fifth one stuck. What were some of the take-aways from that individuals experience? 1. Network and network some more. Get at least eight LinkedIn recommendations spanning at least two people you worked for, two people you worked with, and two people who worked for you. 2. Don’t be too selective about the companies you target. Your best option may be in a different industry or location so keep your options open. 3. Create a value proposition and pitch it to both former employers and new companies that can create a role for you. You have to demonstrate economic value. 4. Invest time in your resume. Change what you were supposed to accomplish into results driven prose. C-level executives care about how you will raise revenue or cut costs. 5. Be realistic about the recruiting cycle. Keep in mind the time of year, the fiscal cycle of companies, and understand how your value proposition meshes with the hiring process. Timing is everything! 6. If the position doesn’t mention relocation but you live outside the area, reconsider applying. You don’t want to waste your time or a recruiter’s or hiring manager, even if you are willing to pay for your own relocation. So keep the faith. This job-seeker applied for more than 300 positions in six months. Two years ago, the same search took three weeks with a handful of opportunities. In the current climate, the rules are different and you need a strong resume to make you stand out. Invest where it counts and you can be your own success story. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/kathy_simmons_netshare_podcast.mp3 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:15:27 -0400 Careers no 00:26:09 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton i4cp Trendwatcher; Informal and social learning are increasingly important tools to provide continuous knowledge to the workplace, leveraging the wisdom of colleagues and developing rapid, useful content in tight economic times Pssst. Over here. We hear you're looking for a good deal these days. The word is that you want to rev up your organizational performance without spending a lot of extra cash. Turns out, we might have just the thing for you: informal learning, aka social learning. Sure, you might already know a thing or two about social learning, but the research on this subject is just heating up, and most companies haven't leveraged it nearly as well as they might, according to Tapping the Potential of Informal Learning, a major study commissioned by the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) and conducted by i4cp. This kind of learning tends to take place without a conventional instructor, with employees in charge of everything from the timing of the learning to how deep they want to go into a given subject. Examples include online social networking, accessing "fingertip" knowledge through the Internet, and peer-to-peer coaching. "Informal and social learning are increasingly important tools to provide continuous knowledge to the workplace, leveraging the wisdom of colleagues and developing rapid, useful content in tight economic times," notes Elliott Masie, chair of the Learning CONSORTIUM and an i4cp board member. Jay Cross, another expert in the field and author of Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance, also views informal learning as a cost-effective strategy. "All learning is part formal and part informal," he told i4cp. "It's not either/or. The economy is forcing corporations to do less with more, and some of the smart ones are shifting the balance in favor of more informal." http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/vickers_i4cp_informal_learning_trendwatcher.mp3 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:49:08 -0400 Careers no 00:14:23 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton For Gen Y this probably sounds like the dumbest thing everrrr, "like, why would you have someone set up your Facebook? That is sooo sketch I can't even!" Welcome to an Online Savvy Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio. This is Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us today is Veronica “Niki” Fielding founder of Digital Brand Expressions. DBE is an interactive marketing consulting and services firm focused on providing search and social marketing services to Fortune 1000 and middle market companies for which search engine solutions are mission-critical component in their marketing mix. DBE recently launched a new service called Jump Start Social Media, to help busy professionals establish themselves on the two most important social media sites: Linkedin and Facebook. Talking Points There are two offerings, a sort of “missing manual” and a service to set-up a Linkedin or Facebook profile? How would you differentiate the two? Would you write a different type of profile for Linkedin than you would for Facebook? If someone opts-in for the full service treatment, who will write the profile? What information will I need to provide? Is a resume good enough? From a business/career standpoint, which is the more important network? How do you protect your privacy? Who can see your profile and information on LinkedIn and Facebook? How should job seekers use Facebook differently than others? What are some of the things you probably shouldn’t post in your profile? Should you “poke” potential employers on Facebook if you want to attract their attention? Every recruiter I’ve talked to tells me they will google a candidate and check out their profiles on Linkedin, Facebook and Myspace. Has that been your experience as well? What if you're not looking for a job but you're interested in offers? Can't your boss see that on LinkedIn? Is there an advantage to using both LinkedIn or Facebook if you’re in a job search? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/niki_fielding_social_networking_podcast.mp3 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:23:21 -0400 Careers no 00:14:04 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Résumé Genome Project - Don't know what you want to do? Path101.com built FREE career services to help!" Joining us today is the CEO of Path101.com Charlie O’Donnell, - which today launched in Alpha mode. Has Amazon ever told you, "People like you bought these other books."? It's a great feature and it's all built off of the shopping habits of real people. What if you could do the same thing with everyone's resume and find out what everyone else was out there doing? You could know what people with your major do for a living, or what jobs people do next after they have yours. What skills do you need in public relations? Investment banking? Which jobs demand the skills you already have? It's all out there! The data is on everyone else's resumes, and Path101 has found over 3 million of them on the web. The basic concept of Path 101 is that users provide data about themselves so that we can compare them to others and show them possible career paths. While our database is sure to be full of valuable insights into careers, it's not the database itself, but the application of the database that drives value. Because we have relevant information to show candidates, they're willing to share more with us about who they are and what they want. Our business goal is to know more about potential candidates than any other candidate search site. Not only can we provide a better service to users that way, but that makes candidate searching for recruiting purposes that much more targeted--better for both sides. Candidate search is a significant component of all the major job boards and it's a bulk of LinkedIn's revenues, which is estimated to be $100 million next year. Are we competitive with them? I don't think so. LinkedIn is built on trust, networks, permissions. We're coming at things from a slightly different approach. I actually think that the kind of inherent trust built into the LinkedIn network could help power other sites, just as I hope LinkedIn will open up to allow sites like ours that maintain a really deep information relationship with our candidates to help power their offering. Both of our respective businesses are tremendous improvements over current methods of resume searching and downloading--even though those businesses are driving significant revenues for the mass-market job boards. Companies don't want a firehose of untargeted resumes--they want the right candidates. Companies like us and LinkedIn using net-native approaches to improving candidate search have a tremendous market opportunity. Such value creation in this industry stems from two basic questions: "How much is a good hire worth to you if you are an employer?" "How much is the right job worth to you if you are in the working world?" That's why employment related services have consistently been one of the best revenue generating online businesses out there and why there's still so much value out there to be gained from matching the right people to the right positions. The market is begging for disruptive approaches to the Jobs 1.0 model of calling big job boards and newspapers on the phone to post a job for $450. I would easily, however, pay a company $450 for 50 candidates that all score very highly on their interest/ability to be self directed, whose friends say they'd be the most easy to work with, and, in our case, whose resume pops up uncommonly appearing words like SVD (Singular Value Decomposition) and not SVD (Society of the Divine Word)--which our textual algorithms would be able to differentiate between because of the other statistics related terms that also appear on other quantitatively inclined programmer resumes. Anyway... thanks for reading down this far and allowing some clarification on our business vision. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/charlie_odonnell_path101_interview.mp3 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:48:23 -0400 Careers no 00:21:12 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Virtual job fairs are helping HR professionals overcome recruiting challenges by enabling them to cost effectively engage qualified job candidates right on their computer screen. "Virtual event technology replicates all aspects of a physical event" Welcome to a online savvy channel podcast on Total Picture Radio. This is Peter Clayton reporting. According to our guest today, Brent Arslaner, VP of Marketing for Unisfair, "Virtual event technology replicates all aspects of a physical event, such as presentations (keynotes, panel sessions, product demonstrations, etc.) that can include live Q&A, exhibition booths staffed live with booth reps and collateral, and networking opportunities." Virtual events also greatly extend the reach of the marketing efforts. It is much easier to get thousands to log on to a computer for a couple of interesting conference sessions than it is to get a few hundred people to show up in Philadelphia in early August for a physical event. But what really gets marketing people excited about virtual events is the marketing data. In the physical world, you are lucky if you grab a business card and scribble some notes on it or use a badge scanner to capture the name, title and company of a booth visitor. Unisfair, a provider of virtual events, including virtual job fairs, received $10m in venture cap funding last year. Talking Points In a couple of weeks I'm going to an event in San Diego. I like San Diego, I like seeing friends and colleagues I only get to see a couple of times a year. Here are three things a virtural event can't give me: face-to-face human interaction, shrimp, and palm trees. I do understand there's a value to having virtural events. They're good for the envronment. I can sit here in sweat pants. I don't have to shave. Speaking about your virtural job fairs, explain to us how it works from a client perspective. Okay, I'm a job applicant. How does your product benefit me? According to your article in Chief Marketer, "Virtual events offer true marketing intelligence, as there is web-based reporting that tells you everything an attendee did." Walk us through a virtural job fair. As an employer how can I conduct a behavioral assessment of a candidate in a virtural environment? I can't assess someone's body language or communication skills. As an applicant invited to participate in a virtural job fair, what advice can you give me to better prepare for the experience? Tell us the job fair you did with KPMG. What were the results from the KPMG event? From a cost standpoint, I would assume this is much less expensive than having a live event. As you know the KPMGs of the word have traditionally relied on campus recruiting for hiring college grads. Do you think Unisfair can augment - or replace the campus recruiting efforts? How receptive are HR managers to this technology? What kind of growth are you projecting for the virtural events industry as a whole? Who are your main competitors? Outside of job fairs, how is your product used? Can you give us an example? What else would you like listeners to know about Unisfair? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/brent_arslander_unisfair.mp3 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:43:55 -0400 Careers no 00:22:39 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio With Peter Clayton Reporting Judy Rosemarin provides one-on-one Career Management, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development and Presentation Skills for executives who want to become more effective as leaders and communicators As an interviewing expert, Judy also writes for ExecuNet.com, a national networking association for senior executives. For many years, Judy has hosted monthly senior executive networking meetings in New York City, in conjunction with ExecuNet, where executives learn how to present their best value statements and expand their contacts and networks to keep their careers vital and advancing. In the summer of 2006, I had the opportunity to participate in one of the monthy networking meetings, and interview Judy on negotiating skills. I wanted to follow-up with her -- and discuss what strategies are working with her clients and ExecuNet group. Talking Points: We all know the financial market in New York has imploded, taking with it many other jobs and businesses. What kind of guidance are you able to provide to your clients in this job market? One of the things ExecuNet is very good at is sharing success stories - I think it's called Learnings from Landings - have you heard any good stories regarding a successful job search lately? When we spoke last week, you shared a story with me from one of the ExecuNet members, which I think was very powerful... I think this illustrates the power of not just storytelling, but of creating an individual whose unique and memorable. You were talking about the professional way to say "once upon a time" can you deconstruct this for us? Another term you used -- stories are sticky - that is certanly true of the Madoff story. And the way he constructed the story got away from "guilt by association." What are some brainstorming techniques people can use to develop engaging stories? And, of course, what we're talking about are factual stories. Non-fiction. How do you weave storytelling into a job interview? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/judy_rosemarin_executive_coach.mp3 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:55:09 -0400 Careers no 00:23:34 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio With Peter Clayton Reporting Sophfronia Scott, author of "Doing Business By the Book How to Craft a Crowd-Pleasing Book and Attract More Clients and Speaking Engagements Than You Ever Thought Possible" Why do you need to write a book? You don’t. Your business does! If you’re a small business owner, speaker, coach, or consultant and you don’t have a published book to your name, then you’re missing an outrageously huge piece of your business. When you don’t publish a book, when you don’t take full advantage of the knowledge and experience that it has taken you years to accumulate, you are leaving a serious amount of money on the table. You’re also missing the chance to make your business stand out in the marketplace against your many competitors." - Sophfronia Scott Welcome to a Success Strategies Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio. This is Peter Clayton Reporting. Joining us today: Sophfronia Scott, Executive Editor of the Done For You Writing & Publishing Company and bestselling author of Doing Business By the Book How to Craft a Crowd-Pleasing Book and Attract More Clients and Speaking Engagements Than You Ever Thought Possible and the novel "All I Need to Get By". Sophronia honed her craft working with some of the best (and toughest) editors in the world during her career at “Time” and “People” magazines. alking Points The first chapter of your new book, "Doing Business By the Book" is titled “Why do you need to write a book?” Good question -- can you expand on this? There were somewhere around 200,000 books published in the US last year -- how can an unknown, unpublished, non-fiction author compete with this, let alone get a publishing company to agree to publish a new book? So even if by some miracle I’m able to get my book published, what if it gets panned? All that work for bad publicity? So let’s talk strategy -- what are the key things a business person needs to consider before they even begin writing a book? Why would I want to self-publish, instead of having a mainstream publisher like HarperCollins or Wiley publish my book? What is the the process of writing a book proposal? How does one find an agent, and how much do they charge? Chapter title: Your Book is the Ultimate Lead Generation Tool. How so? One piece of excellent advice I’d like you to talk about - do some market research before you even write your book by calling stores you think would be good targets for your subject. One of the authors you write about extensively is Timothy Ferriss, whose book The 4 Hour Work Week has been on the best seller lists for months - can you share some of his story with us? Let’s skip ahead to the chapter titled What Comes Next: When Your Book Becomes Your Business - give us some bullet points. I want to shift to your latest blog post on thebooksistah.com/blog - I must say, you drink your own Kool-Aid! So What did you Learn from your Amazon.com Bestseller Campaign? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/sophfronia_scott_podcast.mp3 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:59:59 -0400 Careers no 00:29:22 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting Interview with the author of the recently released eMarketer podcast report, Paul Verna. Paul covers digital media and entertainment, including music, digital movies, online video, video games, user-generated content and podcast advertising. The US podcast audience is ballooning, and eMarketer projects that growth will continue at least through 2013. By then, there will be 37.6 million people who download podcasts monthly, more than double the 2008 figure of 17.4 million. As a percentage of Internet users, podcast downloaders are expected to grow from 9% in 2008 to 17% in 2013." Welcome to a Online Savvy channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Based in New York City, eMarketer conducts market research and trend analysis on Internet, e-business, online marketing, media and emerging technologies. Joining us is the author of the recently released eMarketer podcast report, Paul Verna. Paul covers digital media and entertainment, including music, digital movies, online video, video games, user-generated content and podcast advertising. Siting Paul's report, "Podcasting has evolved from an odd, funky blogging experiment into a broad medium with mainstream trappings. Today, the vast majority of the top-rated podcasts come from recognizable media entities that are using podcasts to expand their existing radio, TV, cable or satellite audiences. " Podcasting Has Evolved To A Broad Medium With Mainstream Trappings Paul Verna "The US podcast audience is ballooning, and eMarketer projects that growth will continue at least through 2013. By then, there will be 37.6 million people who download podcasts monthly, more than double the 2008 figure of 17.4 million. As a percentage of Internet users, podcast downloaders are expected to grow from 9% in 2008 to 17% in 2013." Welcome to a Online Savvy channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Based in New York City, eMarketer conducts market research and trend analysis on Internet, e-business, online marketing, media and emerging technologies. Joining us is the author of the recently released eMarketer podcast report, Paul Verna. Paul covers digital media and entertainment, including music, digital movies, online video, video games, user-generated content and podcast advertising. Siting Paul's report, "Podcasting has evolved from an odd, funky blogging experiment into a broad medium with mainstream trappings. Today, the vast majority of the top-rated podcasts come from recognizable media entities that are using podcasts to expand their existing radio, TV, cable or satellite audiences. " "The Podcasting report analyzes the factors that are fueling interest and growth of a new, large and receptive audience. Stay tuned... Interview with Paul Verna will air today! Talking Points: How long have you been tracking podcasting? We talked last year, Paul. The headline was 285% increase in size of the US podcast audience in 2007, a growth to 18.5 million. What’s the headline this year? For those not familiar with eMarketer, tell us about your company. I know Pew tracks trends in podcasting, who else is following podcasting? One trend I’ve noticed -- just about every mainstream news TV program and newspaper is now podcasting their content. Have you been tracking the growth in this area? What can you tell us about it? Has the iPhone had an impact on the growth of podcasting? How about on the corporate side, Paul. Have you been able to track the use of podcasting by corporations? Got this question for you Paul from the CEO of HRMarketer, Kevin Grossman, via Twitter: What industries do you see the most podcast growth in? The least? What types? Free? Paid? One colleges and universities, it seems more and more are podcasting class lectures. Are you following this trend? Another audience I’ve become aware of... church web sites are now posting sermons -- has your data picked up this trend? I would assume the growth of broadband users correlates to the higher rates of podcast downloads? What are some of the demographic statistics you can share with us? Age? Education? Aside from mainstream media, what kind of content is being podcasted? What surprised you this year Paul, when analyzing the data? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/paul_verna_emarketer_podcast_report.mp3 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:00:55 -0400 Careers no 00:19:28 podcasting, digital media, social marketing, emarketer Total Picture Radio With Peter Clayton Many employees might be damaging their careers and reputation in a desperate attempt to keep their jobs. NYC based Lisa Parker reveals the three keys to executive presence giving professionals the tools to lead with confidence. Panic has set into offices, cubicles, high-rises, malls, factories, and restaurants across the country. There is not an industry, company, or profession that has not been impacted by the recession. From Fortune 100 companies to startups; every employee is terrified of the phone call from HR; the “pink slip” when they return from lunch. People are literally chaining themselves to their desks in an attempt to look busy. Lisa Parker, a New York City based professional executive coach calls the workplace panic “spinny-spin.” In a 30 minute interview with Peter Clayton, the producer/host of TotalPicture Radio, (a popular Internet radio career podcast), Lisa shares her insight and advice on ways to manage your job, and your career in these turbulent times. “My advice working with clients: it is really important is for people to get refocused. Let’s figure out what has to get done, right now. Let’s get away from the spin cycle that has you running in circles.” As part of her coaching practice, Parker trains business professionals to strengthen their presentation and communication skills to lead change and drive results through a popular two day program she designed called Building Executive Presence. “The idea that presence is something you were born with is just plain wrong,” she says in the interview. “Presence is the sum of actions, and behaviors, and therefore can be learned. I teach people how to do this and we see this transformation in every seminar I conduct.” She continued, “There are three keys to understanding presence: self awareness/self management and then, interpersonal skills and communication/brand. http://www.totalpicture.com/content/view/781/154/ http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/lisa_parker_executive_coach_podcast.mp3 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:58:43 -0400 Careers no 00:31:31 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion TotalPicture Radio with Peter Clayton According to George Bradt, "Moving into a new job is among the toughest career challenges you'll face. 40% of newly hired executives fail within 18 months. He is author of The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan... Welcome to a Career Transition Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. If you're a Cablevision customer, "Know Before You Go" is a phrase you've heard ad nauseam. But in today's economy and job market, know before you go is not just a requirement for a job interview, but necessary before your first day of work with a new company. If you've accepted a job offer, especially at an executive level, you will have a far greater chance of success if you commit to a personal onboarding plan before your first "official" day in your new office. George is the author of The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results - the Second Edition was just published by Wiley. I interviewed George in 2007, when the first edition of the book was released. The Second Edition includes 40% new material and updates -- including new and updated downloadable forms -- plus: A new chapter on positioning yourself for a leadership role A new chapter on what to do after the first 100 days A new chapter on getting promoted from within and what to do then Stay tuned... our interview with George will Monday, March 9th! Onboarding is the process of interviewing, hiring, orienting and successfully integrating new hires into the organization's culture. The best onboarding strategies will provide a fast track to meaningful, productive work and strong employee relationships. Onboarding activities begin pre-hire through effective and accurate recruitment communications, followed by an interviewing and screening process that increases the success rate of position acceptance. The orientation of new hires starts prior to the employee's start date and usually is extended through (at least) the first 6 months of employment. Onboarding is applicable to promotional opportunities within organizations, and strategies implemented to promote and orient company veterans to new roles follow the same time-line. What you do (and how you do it) before and during your first 100 days in a new job absolutely determines your chance for success. Studies report that 40-50% of newly appointed executives last less than 18 months. With statistics like that you can’t afford to be casual. The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan is really a workbook, with detailed, step-by-step action plans to guide you through the first 100 days in a new job. Obviously, this book is written for executives in leadership roles, but I think any professional can benefit from using the PrimeGenesis methodology - and knowing the difference between onboarding and "employee orientation." If your starting a new job and onboarding has not been part of the process, buy this book and onboard yourself! http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/george_bradt_primegenesis_podcast.mp3 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:14:22 -0400 Careers no 00:30:34 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Joining us today is Kevin Grossman, President of HRmarketer.com. The Trends in HR Marketing report covers the latest trends and best practices for marketing to the human resource (HR) and employee benefits marketplace going into 2009. Welcome to a Big Picture channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us today is Kevin Grossman, President of HRmarketer.com. He has over twenty years of marketing communications experience working in the human resources and recruiting services industries, high-tech, and higher education. Kevin and I discuss the most interesting and important data points resulting from the HRMarketer.com survey, and how HR vendors are responding to the recession, job cuts, and the economy. The Trends in HR Marketing report covers the latest trends and best practices for marketing to the human resource (HR) and employee benefits marketplace going into 2009. The data presented in this report is based on responses from a diverse group of HR and employee benefits suppliers collected during the fourth quarter of 2008. Topics covered in this report include: • Patterns of adoption and use of various marketing and PR tactics by HR and employee benefits suppliers – including social networking, social media, blogging, podcasting and RSS – also known as “Web 2.0” activities. • Marketing and PR activities most important to HR suppliers. • The marketing and PR activities that generate the most sales leads for HR suppliers, and those presenting the greatest challenges. • How HR suppliers measure the success of their marketing and PR. • Who and what suppliers rely on to stay knowledgeable about the human resources marketplace – and how optimistic suppliers are about the overall health of the human capital marketplace. The key trends outlined in this report include: • Growth of “Web 2.0” tactics like blogging, podcasting and social networking as a means of lead generation. • Growing importance of search engine optimization (SEO). • Continued use of direct e-mail marketing and devaluation of print advertising. Finally, our team of experts provides analysis on what these findings mean for HR suppliers and recommendations for 2009. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/kevin_grossman_hrmarketer_podcast.mp3 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:08:56 -0400 Careers no 00:19:38 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton In this Career Leadership edition of Total Picture Radio, Brand Integrity founder Gregg Lederman Addresses a Critical issue impacted by the recession: Employee Engagement Hey employers, here are some fun facts for you to think about: According to our guest, Gregg Lederman, employees today are more disengaged than ever before. In fact, recent surveys show 48 percent of employees do not look forward to going to work, and one in five are looking for a new job (on the job) on a weekly basis. Numbers like this prove that nearly half of an organization's employees are not an asset, rather a drain on the company's ability to have a dramatic, positive impact on its bottom line and its desired work culture. Welcome to a Leadership Channel edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us today from Rochester, NY is the founder and partner of Brand Integrity, Gregg Lederman. Talking Points Tell us about Brand Integrity - what services does your company provide? As noted in the introduction there's a real disconnect between employers and reality - one of the most telling I've recently seen is from the Salary.com - Nearly 80% of employers do not believe employees will begin a job search in next few months while nearly 60% of employees intend to intensify their job search in next 3 months. Gregg why do employers continue to ignore the facts surrounding employee engagement? What are the Fortune "100 Best Companies to Work For" doing that others are not? I've been doing this radio show since 2006 and employee engagement has been abysmal forever - this is not a byproduct of the recession, am I right? I would guess the more you make, the more engaged you are. So people making $200K are going to be far more engaged than someone making $70k Correct? So you company has developed something called Potential Point™ Employee Engagement Solution - what is it and how does it work? So how do you sell this idea to companies that have frozen spending on all consultants - a lot of CFOs would put Potential Point in the "nice to have" category. How do you get them to think about it as a "must have." I know you enlisted about 20 companies as beta testers - what were some of the results? It's been my experience -- having made corporate rah-rah films for over 25 years -- that if the CEO doesn't buy what your trying to sell to the employees - it just won't work. Do you need a enthusiastic CEO for Potential Point to be successful? What would you like the audience to know about BI that we've not discussed? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/gregg_lederman_brand_integrity_podcast.mp3 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:34:14 -0500 Careers no 00:20:32 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Jonathan Fields is a writer, marketing and small-biz strategist, serial lifestyle entrepreneur, social media maven and author of Career Renegade: How To Make A Great Living Doing What You Love Is it a ladder or a treadmill? We get the inside story from Career Renegade: Jonathan Fields The number of individuals getting nuked out of their cubicles with little more than a cardboard box and Houdini 401k plan (which evaporated right along with their paycheck) is staggering. Every week in February, more than 600,000 people filed new claims for unemployment insurance. After years of toil and abuse many are finding their last official act as an employee is the humiliating escort out the door routine. If this describes your current situation, perhaps it's time for you, my friend, consider becoming a Career Renegade. Joining us today is the man who wrote the book -- Career Renegade How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love -- Jonathan Fields. Welcome to a Career Transitions Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio. Our interview with Jonathan was conduced by producer/host Peter Clayton. Talking Points * How long has this idea of a Career Renegade been cogitating in your brain? * What's your background? * It's a very catchy title, but how do you define Career Renegade? * So I'm picking up on a recent blog post of yours titled Recession Proof Jobs, Santa Claus And The Easter Bunny. You wrote, "I’ve been asked a bunch of times, lately, how smart it is to walk away from the “safe option” of working for someone else to start your own business or even begin to build some kind of independent career or leveragable reputation on the side in this economy." As your title suggests: Who's safe? * Anyone that's read Michael Gerber's E-Myth Revisited knows just because you're passionate about something does not mean you'll be a successful entrepreneur. A lot more small businesses fail than succeed. So if you are considering a Renegade career path, how do you determine what career choices would be right for you? (Explore and choose one of the revolutionary career renegade paths to passion and prosperity - How?) * Let's talk about some of the strategies you map out in your book: * Tap technology to turn a seemingly moneyless passion into a goldmine - this is sounding like a infomercial - I need a reality check. * Rapidly test and adapt your idea for free, from the comfort of your couch * Cultivate the unstoppable renegade mindset and rally others to your cause - what is a "renegade mindset"? * You recently presented a Career Renegade Workshop at the 92nd St Y in New York. What was that like? Any stories you would like to share? * Other than the "safe option" question, what are you most often asked by career changers? * Jonathan, with so many people getting laid off, and the constant barrage of frightening economic news, what are some steps you suggest to those who've recently lost their jobs * Do you have any techniques to help people stay positive? * What didn't I ask that you feel is important to know about yo http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/jonathan_fields_career_renegade.mp3 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:49:45 -0500 Careers no 00:21:18 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Responding to the tidal wave of layoffs that have hit executives from all industries and professions, Linda N Stewart, president, CEO and founder of EPOCH, is launching a national seminar tour to help executives transition their careers. This is Peter Clayton with a special Career Transition podcast on Total Picture Radio. Joining us today is a frequent contributor, Linda N. Stewart, president, CEO and founder of EPOCH - a company she formed in 2007 to bring together her financial service expertise and relationships with her understanding of the demographic changes in the marketplace and to introduce a new talent management resource to organizations. EPOCH acts as a broker of independently employed financial service executives who offer their project based consulting services to help companies accelerate the completion of critical business initiatives. By engaging variable cost resources who have completed similar projects in similar organizations globally, companies can drive business results quickly and cost effectively. Different from traditional consultants that focus primarily on strategy, these executives are all about execution. Responding to the tidal wave of layoffs that have hit executives from all industries and professions, Ms. Stewart is launching a national seminar tour titled Seizing the Opportunity of a Growing Free Agent Marketplace to assist highly accomplished individuals fast track their skills in the growing free agent marketplace. Our conversation today will focus on her seminar. Talking Points First – for those not familiar with EPOCH, tell us about your background. Who are some of the companies you’ve worked with since founding your company? What are the advantages of an executive working with you? Why not try and get consulting assignments directly with companies they target as good fits? Seizing the Opportunity of a Growing Free Agent Marketplace – let’s get to your seminar. First, whom is this intended for? What’s the demographic, Linda? Where and when will be your first seminar? Where can people go to get more information? Let’s get an overview of how the seminar is structured – You start with the pros and cons of independent consulting. What are a couple of the most important considerations? Let’s face it. This is a big change for executives who’ve spent 25-30 years working for a large corporation. In your experience, what are some of the most difficult adjustments? Your workshop goes into detail on the legal, tax and insurance considerations. What’s really important for individuals to know when the set out as free agents. One thing I thought about when reviewing your seminar – Dan Pink’s book Free Agent Nation – written in 2001 – he was a little ahead of his time but it sure has come true. (Maybe you can site some stats). Tell us about developing a business plan as a free agent. What are the biggest considerations? How does this differ from a biz plan you would develop for a new company? How does building business communities factor into this process? Who are some of your seminar leaders? What didn’t I ask that’s important for listeners to know about becoming an independent consultant. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/linda_stewart_epoch_seminars_podcast.mp3 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:29:58 -0500 Careers no 00:20:46 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton It's no secret that the recruiting industry is getting hammered in the current recession. Founded in 1989, this is the third recession that Sheila Greco and Associates has navigated in its 20-year history. Peter Clayton has an in-depth conversation... It's no secret that the recruiting industry is getting hammered in the current recession. In December, Heidrick & Struggles announced plans to cut its workforce by 15 percent. The job boards are getting hit, too. ERE reported CareerBuilder had terminated about 15 percent of its 2,100 person workforce in December. Other job boards (including JobFox), have recently reported staff reductions. Welcome to a Inside Recruiting podcast on Total Picture Radio, with Peter Clayton reporting. Founded in 1989, this is the third recession that Sheila Greco and Associates has navigated in its 20-year history. With about 30 employees, we wanted to hear what company founder, president and CEO, Sheila Greco was doing to weather the storm of client layoffs and budget cuts. She's been busy. Very busy. Talking Points: As I mentioned in the introduction, this is the third recession your firm has gone through. What's different this time? You specialize in the pharmaceutical, health care and retail industries - I would guess retail is dead. Am I right? Are pharmaceutical, and health care holding up? What kind of searches are you conducting right now? I'd like to learn more about your research and competitive intelligence services. Are client's still utilizing these services? Tell us about your SGA Executive Tracker. What is it and how does it work? I imagine you've been getting a lot of "career coaching" type calls from friends and industry acquaintances who've been laid off. What advice have you been giving them? Does your firm accept resume's from job candidates? Do you work on a contingency or retained basis? With so many qualified candidates looking for work, what is the value proposition for companies using an executive search firm such as yours? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/sheila_greco_podcast.mp3 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:11:37 -0500 Careers no 00:22:53 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Wendy Gelberg is career coach/advisor and resume writer. She is the author of The Successful Introvert: How to Enhance Your Job Search and Advance Your Career. Welcome to a Career Transition Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio. This is Peter Clayton Reporting. Wendy Gelberg has been a career coach/advisor and resume writer since 1995, working with people at all stages in their careers and in a multitude of occupations and industries, from entry level to executives. She is the author of The Successful Introvert: How to Enhance Your Job Search and Advance Your Career. Wendy is the owner of Gentle Job Search/Advantage Resumes. She is a certified career coach and resume writer whose expertise is in helping people who are uncomfortable “tooting their own horn.” Wendy coaches individuals, gives workshops and writes articles and blogs on all aspects of the job search process. Samples of her resumes and career advice appear in over 20 books. Wendy has owned her business for over 10 years. She has been an introvert her whole life. The Successful Introvert The purpose of this book is to present strategies used by successful people – including numerous celebrities – in managing their introversion or shyness while becoming successful in professional endeavors. If you’ve ever felt that your personality was getting in the way of achieving your goals, if you’ve ever felt there was a gap separating you from most other people, this book will open up new possibilities. You don’t have to undergo a personality makeover to be successful in your job search and career. Learn to understand, appreciate, and celebrate your unique strengths. This book is intended to both enlighten and empower readers with specific strategies to use in everyday personal and professional activities so that they can achieve greater success in their lives. At the same time, it is intended to enable introverts to understand, appreciate, and celebrate their unique strengths. Talking Points The first chapter of your book is titled "Are You Introverted or Are You Shy? What's the difference? The introvert's dream is the Internet and job boards. And yet, only 1%-2% of jobs are filled exclusively through job boards. In the awful job market we're facing today, how do you recommend approaching a job search? Wendy you're an expert in writing resumes. What is the biggest mistake you find in reviewing resumes? The endless debate: Chronological or Functional? What style of resume is most successful? How long should a resume be? If you've been working for 15-20 years it's hard to put all of that experience on one page? For introverts, networking can be really painful - especially if you are out of work. What advice can you share? One thing you write about in The Successful Introvert: Rejections. People have to be prepared for a lot of rejections - which can be so demoralizing. What techniques can help people stay positive - and focused? What are some of the strategies you recommend going into a job interview? What should candidates expect, and how should they prepare? Let's talk about self promotion. What are some of the best ways to promote yourself in this environment? What is particularly effective? In your experience, how long should job candidates expect it to take from the first interview to the offer letter? Anyone getting a job today is expected to hit the ground running. If you've been hired, it means you are desperately needed. How can an introvert prepare for the first few weeks in a new job? Are you an introvert? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/wendy_gelberg_career_coach_podcast.mp3 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:53:35 -0500 Careers no 00:20:43 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton New Survey Shows Financial Service Industry is More Optimistic About the Economy while Consumers are Overwhelming Pessimistic. Matt Wolfram, head of Cohn and Wolfe's Corporate Practice joins Peter Clayton for an in-depth analysis of their research report. Welcome to a Big Picture Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio, with Peter Clayton reporting. Most top financial service executives are worried about their companies’ reputations, but are failing to make changes consumers want to increase public trust in the organizations. The first study to compare attitudes of consumers and financial service employees, conducted by the global communications company Cohn & Wolfe, shows a big gap between consumer expectations and the behaviors of financial service companies. The study of more than 1,000 U.S. consumers and more than 200 financial service employees showed dramatic disagreement between the two groups about the economic forecast, the services these companies should offer to help their customers and what financial service companies should do to restore consumer trust. Talking Points Before we get into your study, tell us about Cohn & Wolfe So it's not surprising that consumers have negative opinions toward financial services companies - the perception I have is the people running these banks are disconnected from reality. Would you agree. You're in NYC a perfect example of the disconnect is Citi Field a $400m marketing disaster. Of course Citi didn't sign this contract yesterday, but it makes for great headlines. So we have an industry getting bailed out by the Feds, getting criticized by everyone, lampooned on late night TV -- an yet, they don't seem to get it. Am I right? Okay Matt, tell us about some of the disconnects your study found: Banker vs consumer You wrote in you report -- and I almost fell out of my chair -- these companies think sending out newsletters -- the old "statement stuffers" are communicating with their customers? Really? What do you recommend they do - given the dark government cloud hanging over their heads - that would help restore their reputations? What haven't we discussed that you would like to share with the audience? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/matt_wolfram_cohn_wolfe_podcast.mp3 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:25:58 -0500 Careers no 00:13:31 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton In today's employment landscape you have two basic choices you need to embrace. Stratagies designed to help you, (a) keep your current job or, (b) find a new one. It really comes down to this... You're either going to have to make your employer money or your going to have to save your employer money. If you don't work in sales or marketing you have one choice: figure out how to save your company money. And we know just the man to help you figure this out. Last summer, productivity guru Eb Schmidt showed us how to dramatically increase productivity using a system called Mission Control. Today, Eb is going to provide us with real insight on how to save significant money, regardless of your job title. Think about this: How would your boss react if you could show her how her division could save $25k — in $50k in the next thirty days? You may not get a raise, but you'll probably be considered too valuable to add to the RIFF list. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/eb_schmidt_podcast_productivity_expert.mp3 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:10:50 -0500 Careers no 00:19:02 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Welcome to a social networking savvy podcast with Sarah Milstein, O'Reilly alum. She was previously the company's Chief Publishing Evangelist and before that, Managing Editor, Senior Editor, and Editor, leading the development of the Missing Manuals Most of this conversation is centered on an area of Sarah's expertise, Twitter. She wrote the book on it. Literally. It's called Twitter and the Micro-Messaging Revolution: Communication, Connections, and Immediacy--140 Characters at a Time. -- you'll find a link (click read more) in resources to the O'Reilly site where you can download a free excerpt of the report. Stay tuned... Our interview with Sarah will air on Monday. Talking Points: First I know you and our friend Marci Albohor are starting a new venture called 20Slides. What can you tell us about this? Sarah, why should professionals care about Twitter? How do you use Twitter? What benefits have you derived from using Twitter? Why do you maintain two accounts? Can you tell us about the growth of Twitter over the past year? Twitter etiquette: what are some guidelines? How would you advise someone in a career transition to use Twitter? Can you give us some specific examples of using Twitter for a job search? I confess. I've become a Twitter addict. But I've seen a considerable amount of traffic to Total Picture Radio from Twitter. My tweets are usually about new podcasts - or job/economy related. I also retweet quite often. What advice would you give me to integrate Twitter into my business? Can you share some Twitter success stories with us? It seems a number of people using Twitter are obsessed with the number of followers. What's you perspective on this, and what's the best way to build Twitter influence? I find Tweet Deck to be the best tool for managing my Twitter use. What tools do you recommend? What else should people know about Twitter - especially newbies http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/sarah_milstein_twitter_podcast.mp3 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:04:31 -0500 Careers no 00:20:38 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton According to the CEO of i4cp, Kevin Oakes "cutting the training budget might just be cutting into your organization's future success." Welcome to a TrendWatcher Channel edition of Total Picture Radio, with Peter Clayton reporting. Reduce the budget now! It's a fire drill almost every company is either currenty immersed in or has already gone through. And when this fire drill happens, it's typically a time when corporate training and development get a lot of attention. After all, conventional wisdom states that when times are tough, the training budget is one of the first - and easiest - to slash. However, conventional wisdom may not be so wise in this case. Cutting the training budget might just be cutting into your organization's future success. Companies are definitely hacking into training, according to a soon-to-be-released study from the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) and i4cp. Many survey participants reported that they're seriously slicing into the resources used to support learning, and nearly seven out of 10 said that, in these tighter economic times, their organizations are to a high or very high extent, taking a close look at their learning budgets. And why not? As President Obama rails on Wall Street for doling out bonuses of a mere $18 billion, that figure pales in comparison to what companies spend each year on training alone. According to ASTD (2008), the training industry's best-known association, U.S. organizations spent $134.39 billion on employee learning and development in 2007. This amount reflects direct learning expenditures such as the learning function's staff salaries, administrative learning costs, and non-salary delivery costs. Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. total ($83.62 billion) was spent on the internal learning function, and the remainder ($50.77 billion) was allocated to external services. Go to www.totalpicture.com to read the entire Trendwatcher article http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/kevin_oakes_trendwatcher_training_cuts_podcast.mp3 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:48:11 -0500 Careers no 00:16:05 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Welcome to a special Leadership Edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us today is Art Kleiner, Editor-in-Chief of strategy+business Magazine. I had the pleasure of meeting Art at the NeuroLeadership Summit in November where we discussed NeuroLeadership and disruptive change (interview here). I wanted to follow-up with Art and record an interview focused on the second edition of his marvelous book, The Age of Heretics. So, here it is! "Behind many corporate ideas or practices now wearing the mantle of 'conventional wisdom, is a heretic, someone who fought for that idea when it seemed outlandish, improbable, impossible." The Age of Heretics explores the evolution of corporate culture – through the lives of its heretics – from 1945 to the present. The book is a history of the social movement to change large mainstream corporations for the better, but it is not just that. It is also an inquiry into the precise way in which corporations have changed our world, and what it means to be a hero or heroine in a world bounded by immense institutions. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/art_kleiner_strategy_business_podcast.mp3 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:28:06 -0500 Careers no 00:29:18 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion TotalPicture Radio with Peter Clayton Welcome to a special Career Connections edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us today is W. Stanton Smith, National Director of Next Generation Initiatives at Deloitte LLP. Stan is an expert in workforce attitude trends. We're in the midst of a financial crisis. Why are we still talking about what these millennials want? Why do we care what anyone wants for that matter…gen X, baby boomers or whatever? Everybody just has to hunker down and work. This is a view that I've heard and it seems reasonable on one level. Yes we all have to focus on working our way out of this crisis. However, the crisis doesn't change any of the facts or realities that are not optional. We'll talk about the four things that haven't changed ….the trends that are long term that are shaping the millennials' expectations of employers and careers as well as how they prefer to work. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/stan_smith_employment_trends.mp3 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:59:38 -0500 Careers no 00:16:45 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Both Microsoft and LinkedIn considered the merits and trade-offs of selecting executives with no specific human resources experience to head up their HR organizations. Is this a trend? Peter Clayton interviews i4cp senior research analyst, Donna Bear Talking Points: What Peter and Donna discuss Donna in your TrendWatcher titled HR: An Executive Training Ground? you profile Lisa Brummel from Microsoft and Arvind Rajan, at Linkedin. Why did you choose these two HR Execs? What are your thoughts on these appointments? You raise an interesting point: "Come head up HR ... no experience necessary." A CEO wouldn't appoint a CFO without extensive financial experinece, or a CMO without real marketing chops - what do you think these appointments and others like it, say about C-suite attitudes regarding the HR profession? Your Trendwatcher point to the fact that -- HR has traditionally been a field heavily populated by women, employing "about three times as many women as men," why is this? One of the most popular interviews on TPR is with Keith Hammonds, the deputy editor at Fast Company, regarding a front page article he wrote called "Why We Hate HR" - One of his critiisims was "HR isn't working for you. It's there to protect corporate assets. This leads to the pursuit of standardization and uniformity, which conflicts with the needs of a workforce that is heterogeneous and complex." I think this is a common complaint. Do you think HR is doing anything to change this? HR: An Executive Training Ground? Written by Donna Bear The electorate has spoken. Obama's lack of experience? Irrelevant. If the recent political race in the U.S. brought nothing else to light, it certainly raised the profile of how decision-makers must weigh the attributes of direct experience, relevancy, trust, hope and leadership in selecting a top executive. So, too, are businesses wrestling with such issues. Both Microsoft and LinkedIn considered the merits and trade-offs of selecting executives with no specific human resources experience to head up their HR organizations... Visit www.totalpicture.com for the complete article http://www.totalpicture.com/content/view/757/215/ http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/trendwatcher_hr_executive_training_ground_podcast.mp3 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:07:45 -0500 careers no 00:09:44 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion TotalPicture Radio with Peter Clayton What's happeining inside the staffing industry? Is applicant data a ticking time-bomb? Is anyone hiring? What do job seekers need to know? An in-depth interview with producer/host, Peter Clayton Welcome to a Inside Recruiting edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us today is our good friend, Gerry Crispin, principal of CareerXroads. Gerry and his partner, Mark Mehler are human resource professionals who have spent over two decades working in just about every facet of the employment industry. Talking Points: What Peter Clayton and Gerry Crispin discuss in this podcast: What's the buzz? What's happing inside the staffing industry? Is anyone out there in corporate america hiring? What sort of projections are you getting for 2009 from staffing industry experts you're speaking with? What, in your opinion, is important for job seekers to know about that's not being discussed. Sort of on that same vain, you recenty blogged about headlines - the one's that are scaring everyone to death and get you to buy newspapers, magazines, and sit through another 5 minutes of commercials on the cable news networks -- BofA to lay off another 35,000 workers! Although companies that are going though mass layoffs Citi - for example -- Karen Stephenson a corporate anthropologist talked to me about social networks which don't appear on org charts but are the working knowledge of their organizations. I want to talk about a recent blog post of yours - where you revisited your 2008 projections. First - talk to me about the use of ss# in the context of job applications another projection social networking sites explode- which I think is true, especially twitter -- s I could spend all day on Twitter -- what are your thoughts on how to strategically use I recently interviewed our friend Tony Lee about CareerCast.com -- which seems to me to be the print publishers last stand before extenction. What are your thoughts on classifieds? another of your predictions - [Jobseeker] Information Tools to Make Companies Really Transparent Suddenly Appear -- certainly sites like glassdoor.com and vault.com are making this more of a reality - expecially for F500 companies. One of my favorite topics to discuss with you ATS - Any projections for 2009 you'd care to share with us? Gerry Crispin's biography: I write, research and share my adventures, opinions and data about evolving staffing models with the HR profession (and at small-group meetings of corporate staffing strategists that participate in CareerXroads' colloquia). I am passionate about how firms design and build staffing processes, the technology to enhance them and the systems to manage them. Together with my business partner, Mark Mehler, I strive to observe and influence new and evolving models that aspire to world-class, measurable standards and satisfy every stakeholder. I want to know more about the "playing fields" where candidates and employers meet and I'm more than a little curious about how they treat one another: how Job Seekers "game" their next career move while Employers tout their latest opportunities. I'm constantly on the lookout for stories about staffing challenges, benchmarks, and results as well as the people who live the stories they tell. http://www.totalpicture.com/content/view/755/213/ http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/gerry_crispin_careerxroads_podcast.mp3 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:53:31 -0500 careers no 00:29:29 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Peter Clayton discusses with Mark preliminary data from i4cp start-of-year 2009 Forecast Survey, which includes over 460 respondents, shows that there's not a lot of optimism out there right now "The Priorities Will Be Making Profits and Keeping Customers Satisfied" - Mark Vickers Happy New Year! Well, maybe, sort of. At least, we hope it'll be happy. But, a lot of people seem to have skipped right over that intoxicating, sweet period of hope-filled resolutions and sunk directly into some kind of gloomy hangover from 2008... Welcome to our weekly TrendWatcher podcast here on TotalPicture Radio - in association with The Institute for Corporate Productivity.TPR has formed a strategic alliance with i4cp, allowing us to publish on our site the compete weekly research report in their TrendWatcher initiative, as well as record a weekly interview with the lead author of the article. Joining us today from St Petersburg, FL, is Mark Vickers, vice-president of research at i4cp. Mark is responsible for managing and editing various major research projects at i4cp. He is also a futurist and the editor of the company's TrendWatcher publication, which examines the business and social trends that are likely to influence the future of work. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/trendwatcher_2009_survey_podcast.mp3 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:12:40 -0500 careers no 00:17:45 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton "Discover How To Get The Job You Choose, At The Salary You Deserve, — Even In A Recession." An exclusive, in-depth interview with Peter Clayton and two industry insiders who reveal actionable information you can use today for conducting a job search. Welcome to a Success Strategies channel podcast on Total Picture Radio Peter Clayton reporting. We're happy to have back with us the tag team guerrilla specialists David Perry and Kevin Donlin - we're going to learn about a new home study course for their popular Guerrilla Job Search Secrets called The Guerrilla Job Search Home Study Course. David Perry is a frequent contributor to Total Picture Radio. He is managing director of executive search firm Perry-Martel International and the author of "Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters." (The second edition will be published this year). As a recruiter, he’s helped hire more than 978 executives and negotiated more than $167 million in salaries. He’s been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and on TV as an employment analyst for NBC, ABC and CBC News in Canada. Kevin Donlin is a job-search expert, professional resume writer and coach who’s helped more than 10,000 people since 1996. He’s the author of "51 Ways to Find a Job Fast -- Guaranteed." Together, David and Kevin have more than 35 years of experience helping job seekers in good times and in bad. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/guerrila_job_search_podcast.mp3 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:22:53 -0500 careers no 00:53:46 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton The age of the employee is over. No matter whom you work for or how many stock options you own, the future of your career is ultimately up to you. A Career Transitions podcast with Peter Clayton. "Are you willing to spend the rest of your working life in corporate purgatory? If now isn't the right time to make a change, will it ever be? You've already wasted enough time. Stop trying to love the job you hate. Stop trying to convince yourself that you don't deserve more. Stop making excuses and make a change." Pamela Skillings is a successful entrepreneur, a certified career coach, and the author of Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams, a career guide for entrepreneurs and other renegades. Pamela walked away from the security of a six-figure job and a twelve-year corporate career to start her own business in 2005. Her company, Skillful Communications, provides consulting and coaching on communication and career development issues for organizations and individuals. Talking Points: What Peter Clayton asked Pamela Skillings Tell us a little bit about your personal journey... If you go to Pamela's web site - escapefromcorporate.com and click on the press tab, you'll find an A list of publications and bloggers have helped to promote Pamela and her book NYT Forbes, CNN, Reuters, Newsweek, Guy Kawasaki, Bob Sutton, Scoble - you've been all over the radio and YouTube. Pamela, this was your first book. How did you accomplish this? Escape from Corporate America was published in 2008, and we're dealing with a very different situation. You could replace the word "escape" with "nuked" - especially in the financial services industry and it would probably be closer to the reality of 2009. So I'd like to approach our conversation today from that pov. Yes I hated my job my boss and my life. However My 401K is now a 101K I was so busy trying to keep my job that I did nothing to plan for losing my job. I know you interviewed a number of people in this situation and would appreciate your sharing some of their stories. What is the most common mistake you've found with people who've been blind sighted by a layoff? Tell us about you consulting business specifically about the services you offer as a career coach. Additional advice you would like to share with the recently terminated? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/pamela_skillings_career_podcast.mp3 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:11:31 -0500 careers no 00:23:01 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion TotalPicture Radio with Peter Clayton Welcome to a Success Strategies Channel podcast with Peter Clayton reporting. Harry Joiner is an Atlanta based executive recruiter and the author of the the Web site "I need a new job. Now what? 97 Job Search Tips Career Advice for Desperate Job Seekers" Typically, the job search process is a six month-long, broken, politically-biased, ill-conceived, and poorly-executed racket. For most companies, the candidate’s dignity is an afterthought. Some of what will happen to you will not be fair. It will be expensive and frustrating. The injustice of it all will sting, and raging against the machine won’t help. You will need to forgive your transgressors just to maintain your sanity." Harry Joiner Welcome to a Success Strategies Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Harry Joiner is an Atlanta based executive recruiter and the author of the the Web site "I need a new job. Now what? 97 Job Search Tips Career Advice for Desperate Job Seekers" - Harry's web site is Ecommerce Recruiter, and he specializes in contingency-based Manager, Director, and VP-level executive searches for online marketing and ecommerce. Talking Points: What Peter Clayton asked Harry Joiner Before we get started and your inundated with a truckload of new resumes, please explain to our audience exactly how a recruiter such as yourself operates. What is the difference between a contingency based recruiter and a retained recruiter? In this economy, with so many highly qualified people out of work, why would a company hire a recruiter? Quoting from 97 job-search-tips.com, "Last year I closed 17 searches. It was a banner year. Some of those searches were for VPs and Presidents, but most were for Managers and Directors. Yet of the 17 executives I placed, more than 3500 very fine candidates reached out to me. Think about that. I placed less than half of one percent of the people with whom I communicated." So Harry, there's the math. -- And there's the reason why all of those hot-shot executives out there need to think again if they feel they can just call their favorite headhunter and get placed. Let's discuss the meat of your I need a new job. Now what?” 97 Job Search Tips - 1. Leave on your own terms - (guys like you don't troll the internet for out of work executives) BUT -- what if it's too late? what if you've been laid off? 2. Sharply define the value that you create -- emphasis on "Sharply" Looking for a new job? Start here.A technology writer for CNET wrote this headline for an article listing Indeed, JobSerf, Linkup, and realmatch as "some services that do a much better job of scouring the Web to help you find the perfect job." Really? 3. Have a “keyword – rich” and “metrics – rich” resume. - I think one of the best investments an executive can make is hiring a profession resume writer - would you agree? 4. Be easy to inhale into the recruiter’s database. What do you mean by this and is it worth my time? 5. How to be FOUND by a recruiter – or anyone, for that matter. Really? I thought having your resume on the internet was the kiss of death for guys like you, Harry. --- Tell us about your Facebook experience. - Let's talk about Linkedin, zoominfo and jigsaw 6. How to find the right recruiter. I'm all ears. You're final bit of advice? http://www.totalpicture.com/content/view/752/154/ http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/harry_joiner_ecommerce_recruiter_podcast.mp3 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:00:00 -0500 careers no 00:44:53 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion TotalPicture Radio with Peter Clayton "Ever wish you had a way to share, revise, and tag your resume all at the same time? Look no further. ResumeBucket offers you the ease of editing, the power of sharing, and convenient access to your resume from anywhere on the planet." Welcome to an online savvy channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. According to their Web site, "Your resume is your foot in the door for potential career opportunities. The hiring process is actually a sales process -- you're selling the value that you provide to each potential employer that sees your resume. At Resumebucket.com, our goal is to make your resume easy to find, view and update. We provide sample resumes and sample cover letters to help you craft your resume. And it never hurts to browse other resumes in your field to see how you stack up to your competition. Joining us today is a founder of ResumeBucket.com, Josh Stomel Talking Points: What Peter Clayton asked Josh Stomel Tell us about Resume Bucket. Tell us about your background What does it cost? What file formats can you use Are resume's visible in search engines? Most people have several versions of their resumes - is it possible to store more than one version? Can users track whose looked at their resumes? Tell us about your job search function. Where do your jobs come from? A number of exec recruiters will tell you it's the kiss of death to have your resume online. What about privacy? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/josh_stomel_resumebucket.mp3 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:59:34 -0500 careers no 00:17:38 resume, career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Unemployment Hits 7.2%, a 15-Year High - The nation’s employers shed 524,000 jobs in December, and a rapidly deteriorating economy promised more significant losses in the months ahead. Peter Clayton interviews i4cp analyst, Alice Graves Total Picture Radio has formed a strategic alliance with The Institute for Corporate Productivity, i4cp, allowing us to publish on our site the compete weekly research report in their TrendWatcher initiative, as well as record a weekly interview with the lead author of the article. Will Higher Skill Levels Emerge from Today's Economic Gloom? By Alice Graves The numbers have become staggering. In November alone, the U.S. lost over half a million jobs, according to the Labor Department. The number of people on the unemployment benefit rolls rose to its highest level since 1982, at 4.4 million. And the times may get tougher yet. But amid this crisis there is another, quieter one that is receiving less press: a deepening skills and education crisis. A study by the American Council on Education (2008) found that the current generation of U.S. adults aged 25-29 is less educated than their parents' generation. And a report by The Education Trust released in October 2008 entitled "Counting on Graduation: An Agenda for State Leadership" states that among industrialized nations, "the U.S. is the only country in which today's younger generation is less likely than their parents to have earned a high school diploma." read the entire TrendWatcher article at www.totalpicture.com http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/trendwatcher_higher_skills_i4cp.mp3 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:21:47 -0500 careers no 00:06:45 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion TotalPicture Radio with Peter Clayton If you're engaged in a job search, web sites that aggregate jobs from many sources, allow you to set-up job agents to push current openings to you, and provide career related content and advice are invaluable. Peter Clayton interviews Tony Lee. Welcome to a Online Savvy Channel edition of Total Picture Radio this is Peter Clayton reporting. We're delighted to have back with us Tony Lee, Chief Alliance Officer of Adicio and publisher of CareerCast.com and JobsRelated.com. According to their web site, "CareerCast.com is the Internet's premier career site for finding targeted job opportunities by industry, function and location. The site's job database offers opportunities from all U.S. and Canadian newspaper, magazine, niche and TV station web sites powered by Adicio Inc., the Internet's leading developer of web-based classified advertising solutions. The job database also includes all postings to the Adicio National and Regional Networks, and provides the opportunity for job seekers to post their resumes confidentially to all Adicio client resume databases in North America.""CareerCast.com's articles and tools reflect the exceptional editorial resources of hundreds of Adicio client sites, as well as a team of dedicated contributors and researchers. The JobsRated.com section features exclusive rankings of the nation's best and worst jobs, and our video of the day and blog of the day selections represent the best in recruitment videos and bloggers from across the Internet." Talking Points: Tell us about your new venture CareerCast.com. Tell us about Adicio - outside of the recruiting industry this is not a brand that most people are familiar with What are you offering job seekers that they can't get from Monster or CareerBuilder? So what is the difference between CareerCast and the WSJ career journal? Is there a cost for a job seeker for signing up on CareerCast? Are you targeting a certain demograhic - say jobs under $100k per year? What about privacy. If I put my resume on CareerCast am I going to get spamed to death? how does jobrated.com factor into the equaision? You've got a bilined article on Job Rated called the The 10 Best Jobs in America Today - what's the methodology behind this list? would it be fair to categorize careercast as a web 2.0 application? What kind of career news do you provide? Let's talk abut the employers section of careercast. http://www.totalpicture.com/content/view/745/126/ http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/tony_lee_carrecast.com.mp3 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:39:21 -0500 careers no 00:10:58 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion TotalPicture Radio with Peter Clayton Welcome to a Leadership Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us today from Seattle is the co-founder of Pathwise Management, Todd Hollow Bist. The mission of Pathwise Management is "to introduce Top Caliber managers to powerful, but widely unknown tools for life and business gained through over 100 years of psychological thought." Several months ago I interviewed Todd's partner, Chad Hattrup, and thought it would be valuable to speak with Todd, given the unique process they use in working with executives, called the Ten Essentials of Pathwise. Talking Points * In my conversation with Chad last October we spoke at some length about the fear and anxiety which exists in the workplace. If anything, that has intensified and I would imagine is a topic of conversation with your clients. * You recently gave a workshop called "leading through the economy" can you give us some take-away's from that event? * There are a lot of great techniques for managing stress -- exercise, meditation, yoga -- however in the middle of a tense day a the office those options are not available. What techniques can people learn to help focus on work, not fear? * One of the Pathwise "essentials" I'd like you to comment on is called Resistance & Defenses - attributes which really become magnified in this economy. * Interpersonal Patterns: Transference iis another skill you teach - can you give us some context? * An in-depth discussion of dealing with Obsessive-Compulsive personalities visit www.totalpicture.com for a complete list of the Ten Essentials of Pathwise http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/todd_hollow_bist_pathwise_management.mp3 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:21:21 -0500 careers no 00:35:48 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Success Strategies podcast on Total Picture Radio with Alexandra Levit, former nationally syndicated columnist with Tribune Media Services and a current blogger HuffingtonPost.com and Getthejob.com, and author of three career books Alexandra has authored several books, including They Don't Teach Corporate in College (second edition due in spring 2009 from Career Press), How'd You Score That Gig? (Random House/Ballantine) and Success for Hire (ASTD Press). Alexandra’s book on inspirational career change, Change Your Job, Change Your Life, is due out from Random House/Ballantine in early 2010. Questions Peter Clayton asked Alexandra Levit I don't know very many people who aren't worried about their jobs. What do you tell your friends -- how do you stay focused and productive when you're scared to death most of the time? The title of a recent post on Huffington Post "The Corporate Freshman: A New Chapter Begins" I'd like you to share with our audience some of your advice. Back to the intro. You're a former nationally syndicated columnist with Tribune Media Services and a current blogger HuffingtonPost.com and Getthejob.com. I'm interested to learn about your transition from writing for the print world to the online world. Tell us about your book, How'd You Score That Gig? published last year. Is it still relevant in this economy? The book starts out with a self assessment tool. How was that developed? Is is similar to the Myers Briggs personality test? Give us a sneak preview of your new book Change Your Job, Change Your Life What advice are you giving your friends who've been laid off? Alexandra Levit bio Alexandra is a frequent national media spokersperson and has been featured in more than 800 media outlets including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, National Public Radio, ABC News, Fox News, CNBC, the Associated Press, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Fortune, and her articles regularly appear on the home pages of CNN, MSN, and Yahoo!. Known as one of the premiere spokespeople of her generation, Alexandra regularly speaks at conferences, universities, and corporations including Campbell's Soup, CIGNA, the Federal Reserve Bank, McDonalds, Microsoft, and Whirlpool — on issues facing modern employees. Alexandra is also a global spokesperson for Microsoft and has recently been called upon to speak to corporate C-suite audiences and Baby Boomer and Generation X managers about leveraging the talent of the Millennial generation. Alexandra has ten years of experience providing integrated marketing communications solutions for Fortune 500 companies and is also skilled at providing guidance regarding twenty-first century motherhood, human resources and general business issues, and entrepreneurship. She graduated from Northwestern University and resides in Chicago, IL with her husband Stewart and son Jonah. Alexandra's career advice is featured monthly in the Huffington Post, and has been showcased in more than 800 media outlets including ABC News, the Associated Press, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, National Public Radio, Fortune, Yahoo!, and MSN. Known as one of the premiere career spokespeople of her generation, she regularly speaks at universities and corporations on workplace issues facing young employees. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/alexandra_levit_podcast.mp3 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:15:48 -0500 careers no 00:22:02 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Welcome to an inside Recruiting podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us is the CEO of Jobvite, Dan Finnigan. Previously, Dan served as Senior Vice President of Yahoo! and General Manager of Yahoo! HotJobs Talking points Dan, you joined Jobvite last Juiy as CEO - I think you have a uniqe perspective to share - given you experience running Yahoo HotJobs and most recently, as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark Capital. First, let's talk about Jobvite. For those not familiar with your service, give us a brief overview. Who are some of the companies using the Jobvite service? As you know many recruiters are using social media sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook to source talent. What does Jobvite add to the equation? I downloaded your Social Recruitment Survey Results white paper. 78% of the HR and recruitment professionals you surveyed use social networking to support recruiting - 80% use LinkedIn to find candidates - that's rather impressive. What differentiates Jobvite from some of the more established players in this space - like SilkRoad, and Taleo? From what I can tell, Your customers are small to mid-size businesses. Can Jobvite scale to a large fortune 500 company? Would it be fair to say the last six months have been somewhat of a roller-coaster ride for you given the economic meltdown? Do you think traditional job boards like HotJobs and Monster will go the way of newspaper classified ads? Do you think services such as yours will eventually disintermediate the traditional role of professional recruiters? What do you project for employment in 2009? Dan Finnigan - Chief Executive Officer Dan has spent his career launching and growing Internet businesses with a focus on the recruitment market. Previously, Dan served as Senior Vice President of Yahoo! and General Manager of Yahoo! HotJobs where he established Yahoo and HotJobs’ partnership with a consortium of over 700 newspapers, today representing 41 percent of total Sunday circulation in the U.S. Prior to Yahoo!, he led the creation of Knight Ridder Digital, serving as President and CEO. Dan holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and a B.A. in Communication Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/jobvite_dan_finnigan.mp3 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:26:10 -0500 careers no 00:16:18 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton This is where things get sticky, with many companies stranded in the mire of a down economy that has finally been declared a recession. How can companies avoid becoming victims of a low economic tide? Peter Clayton interviews Mark on this critical issue. As the saying goes, a good economy is like a rising tide that lifts all boats. That rising tide helps float a lot of companies, sometimes even those encrusted and otherwise weighed down with organizational problems. In the bad times, however, the tide recedes and a lot of those problems beneath the proverbial waterline become both more visible and more treacherous. Total Picture Radio has formed a strategic alliance with The Institute for Corporate Productivity, i4cp, allowing us to publish on our site the compete weekly research report in their TrendWatcher initiative, as well as record a weekly interview with the lead author of the article. Joining us today from St Petersburg, FL, is Mark Vickers, VP of research at i4cp. How can companies avoid becoming victims of a low economic tide? One of the best ways may be to focus on their corporate cultures, suggests a major new global study commissioned by the American Management Association (AMA) and conducted by i4cp. The study, which is based on 1,967 global survey respondents, indicates that companies with positive corporate cultures - as reflected by eight specific cultural characteristics - are more likely to report greater success in the marketplace than are other organizations. The Cultivating Effective Corporate Cultures study also found strong correlations between positive corporate cultures and the degree to which respondents report that their companies are 1) operating at their potential, 2) successfully meeting their goals, and 3) stating that theirs is a good place to work. Read the complete report here: http://www.totalpicture.com/content/view/733/215/ http://www.totalpicture.com/content/view/733/215/ http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/trendwatcher_corporate_culture.mp3 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:52:14 -0500 careers no 00:17:05 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton "Job Concierge" service provides job seekers with a weekly distribution of customized job leads. Tune-in to the interview with Peter Clayton for a 50% discount code for trying the RiseSmart service. Welcome to an Online Savvy Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Last week, I asked my LinkedIn network for "suggestions of leaders you feel would share valuable information and insights with job seekers and recruiters." For those of us with jobs, I think everyone is concerned about keeping them; and at the very least, taking an active role in monitoring what's happening in their industry, profession, major competitors and company. (If you're not, why?) Hat-tip to our friend, Jonathan Goodman from HRMarketer, for recommending we interview the president and CEO of RiseSmart, Sanjay Sathe. RiseSmart offers services for job seekers, recruiters and corporations. Their "Job Concierge" service provides job seekers with a weekly distribution of customized job leads from "across the internet by leveraging sophisticated technology and human touch to deliver the highest volume of relevant job listings." For recruiters, the company offers "Recruiter Concierge" - a cost effective sourcing and pre-screening solution to help recruiters find the “right” candidates. We search for active and passive candidates from across an array of data sources, including our proprietary database. Their "Transition Concierge" - provides a service targeted at corporations to provide outplacement assistance to employees impacted by a job elimination or downsizing event, at a fraction of the cost of traditional offerings. According to their web site, RiseSmart offers "a subscription service that takes the search out of the job search for busy senior managers/professionals by saving them time and driving relevance in their online job search. What makes RiseSmart unique is the combination of a powerful search engine that goes across the Net and brings back job postings for our customers based on their preferences and then a job concierge who sifts through those results prior to delivery to the customer to ensure all matches are relevant." Talking Points: RiseSmart targets the $100k + job market. Give us an overview of your service. According to your LinkedIn profile, your background is in the airline industry. What skills have you been able to transfer from Sabre to RiseSmart? Is RiseSmart like eHarmony for job seekers? From what I understand, your site uses real humans to evaluate a job seeker's qualifications as well as algorithms. Is this correct? You recently were able to raise venture cap funding in a very tough market. What makes your service unique? Have recruiters embraced your service? Do they feel they're in competition with you? RiseSmart offers a outplacement component. Can you explain this service? Where do the jobs come from that are matched though your "concierge" service? Most job boards report a 20% to 30% reduction in ad activity from a year ago if not more. Do these percentages reflect the $100K plus market? What advice would you give someone just laid off? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/sanjay_sathe_risesmart.mp3 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:23:46 -0500 Careers no 00:13:09 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton David is a veteran communications strategist, author, Emmy Award-winning former CBS Network News correspondent, and adjunct professor. A Leadership Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with host Peter Clayton. Talking Points: Who did you write your book for? Your book starts out with the value of an Influential voice - and the following statistic: 82% of shareholder value is intangible. All you have to do is look at the stock market today... You mention the usual suspects - Steve Jobs, Bill Gates -- why do so few leaders have this ability? Let's talk about PR - you used to work for one of the largest PR agencies... Corporate PR departments drive me nuts If you're trying to build a personal brand, promote a book... I want to talk about executive who blog... A lot of social media types like to foist the PR is Dead mantra - what's your response So let's move from print to broadcast - that's not a pretty picture. Back to the beginning of this interview - perception is the highest form of reality. We set this interview up on Twitter. it's become my IM and my version of AP - it's how I stay connected with people I'm interested in. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/david_henderson.mp3 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:17:08 -0500 Careers no 00:22:41 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Jason Alba is the author of I'm on LinkediIn, Now What??? He is passionate about all things related to personal career management he is the founder of jibberjobber.com. Talking Points Jason, before we discuss your new LinkedIn book, I'd like you to tell us about your primary focus - jibberjobber. Are you seeing an increase in activity on the jibberjobber web site? Are you still offering recent combat vets free jibberjobber premium accounts? Any new enhancements to jibberjobber you would like to share with the audience? Okay, I'm on LinkedIn, Now What? Second Edition. I want to talk with you first about the changes and enhancements LinkedIn has made since you wrote the first edition. What's new, and what is the most useful in your opinion of the new tools available? In chapter 9 you discuss using LinkedIn for a job search. Can you review with us some of the ways you can use LinkedIn when engaged in a search? How would you recommend someone use LinkedIn who is engaged in an active job search? How can we use LinkedIn to research specific companies? As you know, there's a constant debate over whom you should link to. There's an argument to be made for linking only to those you know well and then on the other side of the spectrum there are the LIONS - what's your advice? Tell us about the Service Providers directory and its value. One group that uses LinkedIn extensively is recruiters -- you and I spend a lot of time at events like ERE and OnRec, so we're well aware of the value recruiters place in the LinkedIn network... One of the big enhancements to LinkedIn is in the area of Groups... What has been your experience with your JibberJobber group? How much time do you spend administrating your group? Yahoo groups have been around for a long time -- do you participate in these as well? One of the most interesting new features is Answers. Give us the rundown. What is the value in answering questions? You have a whole section in your book on using LinkedIn for personal branding. Give us some bullet points. One thing I want you to address. There are a number of practices that can get you kicked-off of linkedin. What are some of the most common? If you feel you've been banned unfairly, what can you do? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/jason_alba_im_on_linkedin_now_what.mp3 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:21:27 -0500 Careers no 00:37:32 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Dr. Karen Stephenson shares her decades of experience in quantitative social network analysis with Peter Clayton, explaining how the measurement of relationships reveals general principles and patterns that can be seen across organizations. Professor Stephenson’s concept, which she calls the “quantum theory of trust,” explains not just how to recognize the collective cognitive capability of organizations, but how to cultivate and increase it. She is the most visible member (particularly in business circles) of a small but growing academic field called social network analysis. Originally derived from the complex math used to explain subatomic physics, it is being used to understand and manage the ineffable forces of human interaction within an organization’s walls — particularly those forces that can’t be captured in formal structures, such as pay scales and reporting relationships, but that implicitly govern the fate of every enterprise. Dr. Karen Stephenson, hailed in Business 2.0 as “The Organization Woman”, is a corporate anthropologist and lauded as a pioneer and "leader in the growing field of social-network business consultants." In 2007, she was one of only three females recognized from a distinguished short list of 55 in Random House’s Guide to the Management Gurus. In 2006, she was awarded the first Houghton Hepburn Fellow at Bryn Mawr College for her groundbreaking contributions to civic engagement. In 2001, her consulting firm Netform was recognized as one of the top 100 leading innovation companies by CIO. Her prominence catapulted in 2000 when she was featured in a New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell, regarding the social dynamics of office spaces. Even before these accolades, Stephenson had earned praises for innovatively solving a variety of complex problems which have been featured in The Economist, Forbes, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company and Wired. Drawing upon her prolific experience and 400 member database, Dr. Stephenson consistently delivers that “aha’ moment to her clients and audiences. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/karen_stephenson_neuroleadership_summit.mp3 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:45:59 -0500 Careers no 00:27:05 career advice, social networking, employment, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search, leadership development, career transistion Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Using a five-stage model, Gerzema's new book, "The Brand Bubble The Looming Crisis in Brand Value and How to Avoid It,"reveals how today's successful brands--and tomorrow's--have an insatiable appetite for creativity and change. Welcome to a Big Picture edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Reporting. Companies today face a dilemma in marketing. The tried-and-true formulas to create sales and market share behind brands are becoming irrelevant and losing traction with consumers. In The Brand Bubble, The Looming Crisis in Brand Value and How to Avoid it, John Gerzema and Ed Lebar (CEO of BrandAsset Consulting), offer credible evidence--drawn from a detailed analysis of a decade's worth of brand and financial data using Y&R's Brand Asset Valuator (BAV), the largest database of brands in the world--that business is riding on yet another bubble that is ready to burst--a brand bubble. The Brand Bubble has been voted the #3 Business Book of 2008 by Amazon.com While most managers still see metrics like trust and awareness as the backbone of how brands are built, Gerzema asserts they're dead wrong--these metrics do not add to increased asset value. In fact, by following them, they actually hasten the declining value of their brands. Using a five-stage model, The Brand Bubble reveals how today's successful brands--and tomorrow's--have an insatiable appetite for creativity and change. These brands offer consumers a palpable sense of movement and direction thanks to a powerful "energized differentiation." Gerzema reveals how brands with energized differentiation achieve better financial performance than traditional brands have. Plus, Gerzema helps readers develop energized differentiation in their own brands, creating consumer-centric and sustainable organizations. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/john_gerzema_brand_bubble.mp3 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:55:21 -0500 Careers no 00:29:06 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Al H. Ringleb hosted the first NeuroLeadership Summit in Asolo, Italy in 2007. He is widely integrating neuroscience into MBA and undergraduate programs at CIMBA. Peter Clayton spoke with Dr. Ringleb at the North American Neuroleadership Summit Dr. Al H. Ringleb is the Executive Director of CIMBA and a professor at The Tippee School of Managment, University of Iowa. Dr. Ringleb holds a J.D. from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. in Economics from Kansas State University. Professor Ringleb spent many years teaching and coordinating international programs at both Texas A&M and Clemson universities. Since 1985, Professor Ringleb has worked for the development and support of international programs including the creation of CIMBA. Dr. Ringleb has received several research grants including a grant for a transportable education program for Latin America. He has developed full-time MBA campuses in Italy and Germany, developed the Institutes for International Business Studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Croatia, and has served on numerous academic boards, including the Open Universities of Europe, the Institute for Pacific Asia, and the Forum of Scientists and Specialists for Soviet-American Dialogue. Dr. Ringleb received the Distinguished Teaching Award and Research Fellow for the Center for International Business Studies from Texas A&M University; Faculty Extern for Esso Eastern in Hong Kong; and the Earhart Fellow for Mont Pelrin Society Meetings in St. Vincent, Italy. He also was a charter member of the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars. Professor Ringleb is the author of numerous published research articles, and has co-authored two books. http://www.totalpicture.com/content/view/724/214/ http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/al_ringleb_neuroleadership_summit.mp3 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:08:39 -0500 Careers no 00:15:52 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Built on the CollectiveX platform, Motor City Connect is the most sophisticated community networking web site I've seen, With over 2000 members, 500 "Key Connections," and 1300 discussions. We posted the following message on the Motor City Connect discussion board: I'm new to MCC and although I don't reside in the Detroit area, I think this is a fantastic resource! A brief introduction -- My name is Peter Clayton and I'm the producer/host of a career advocacy radio show (podcast) called Total Picture Radio. One of your members, and a listener, suggested I interview Terry Bean. After spending some time on MCC I thought Cleo was right! (Hat-tip to Cleo Parker for introducing us to MCC). So, I wanted to reach out to the members of this group and ask for your suggestions. What should I ask Terry? What is special about MCC? How has MCC helped you? If you've attended any of the MCC events, please share your stories. Have you made new friends through the MCC group? Have you found a new job, or attracted new business though MCC? Do you think the Federal Government should bail out the "Big 3?" People outside of the Detroit area hear so much negative information about "the rust belt" the tremendous unemployment, crime, etc. What's great about living in Detroit? Why do you stay? http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/terry_bean_mcc_podcast.mp3 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:33:00 -0500 Careers no 00:24:29 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton The Scientist. The Shaman. The Group Member. The Trickster. The Hero. The Innocent. What does performance have to do with NeuroLeadership? Peter Clayton reports from the North American NeuroLeadership Summit in New York City. Chris Wink (Blue Man) founded Blue Man Group along with long-time friends, Phil Stanton and Matt Goldman. He participated in a session at the North American NeuroLeadership Summit (with Mark Jung-Beeman, David Rock, facilitated by Jonah Lehrer), titled The Anatomy of an Aha, Exploring the Neuroscience of Insight. Be sure to check out the graphic on the next page, illustrating the creative process used by the Blue Man Group in developing characters for their shows. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/chris_wink_blue_man_group_podcast.mp3 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:49:51 -0500 Careers no 00:14:37 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Welcome to our continuing TrendWatcher series on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Mark Vickers is VP of research at The Institute for Corporate Productivity, (i4cp). This week, we examine the impact the Obama adminstration will have... First piece of advice: Stay calm. Nobody is really sure what a Democratic Congress and an Obama Administration will mean for workforce issues. Second piece of advice: Calm doesn't mean complacent. Do some contingency planning. There could be a number of important legislative and regulatory changes coming down the pike - some with the potential to radically shift workforce trends in various areas. Unionization: For many years, the percentage of U.S. workers who are union members has been in a general decline, with only the smallest of upticks in 2007. Today, just 12.1% of wage and salary employees are in unions (Smerd, 2008a). But some employers are getting nervous about the possibility that this trend will reverse itself if the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which Obama favors, becomes law. The act would allow employees to choose union representation through a card-check process rather than via a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) secret election. Employers would have to acknowledge union representation if more than half of workers sign cards in the union’s favor. This would allow workers to bypass the current NLRB process, which some argue favors employers. But opponents say that eliminating the secret ballot election process would invite union coercion and take away workers’ fundamental democratic right to a secret-ballot election, and they worry that the passage of the law could lead to a massive increase in unionization ("Card-check," 2007; Leonard, 2007). Read the complete TrendWatcher article at www.totalpicture.com http://www.totalpicture.com/content/view/711/215/ http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/tw_obama_workforce_issues_podcast.mp3 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:09:06 -0500 Careers no 00:15:16 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Debra Feldman Are you trying to reinvent your career in these trying economic times? Have you recently been the recepient of a dreaded pink slip? Welcome to a special Career Transition channel edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Who? trying to reinvent yourself for the new economic times? Comments on industries that are dying, dead or in distress- mortgage brokers, financial services, real estate development and sales especially hard hit. Who else? - -coming out of retirement, re-entering the workforce,- dot com millionaires who•ve seen their wealth wiped out, just bored and had enough leisure and watching incompetent people ruin everything , those who can see this a an opportune time to get in again and have a meaningful impact, •temporarily retired who are see now is the time that they have to or should return to work and help out the family, just timing: finished a family or health leave and faced with an unwelcoming job market What to do? Despite all the Internet based job search resources, personal connections still are the most potent method to source a new career challenge. It's not just what you know or who you know but who knows what you know. Incumbent on prospective candidates to attract the attention of appropriate decision makers : to be on their radar as openings in the organization surface, to be placed top of mind and viewed as a reliable solution, to be trusted and put on the inside track to leads about new jobs referred to them by their personal contacts Networking? Yes! Not whether to network but how to Network Purposefully. Figure out who has hiring authority for the job you want and arrange to meet them- it's that simple and that difficult to achieve with everyone busy and wary of stranger's requests and effective corporate gatekeepers in the form of voice mail systems, human gatekeepers and automated resume screening systems. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/job_whiz_career_transition_podcast.mp3 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:21:51 -0500 Careers no 00:21:11 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Ramit Sethi is the founder and author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich, a blog on personal finance and entrepreneurship. His site hosts over 175,000 readers per month - a Success Strategies Podcast with Peter Clayton Ramit Sethi is the founder and author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich, a blog on personal finance and entrepreneurship. His site hosts over 175,000 readers per month and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, NPR, and ABC News. His book, "I Will Teach You To Be Rich," will be published in early 2009. He is also the co-founder and vice president of community marketing for PBwiki, a venture-backed online start-up that hosts millions of users per month. Ramit graduated from Stanford University in 2005 with undergraduate and graduate degrees in technology, psychology, and sociology. On October 30th, Ramit Annouced the "Save $1000 in 30 Days Challenge""You’ll notice that I haven’t written a lot about frugality on this site," he wrote. "That’s because Americans suck at frugality. We spend more than we make. We’re terrible at deferring our immediate wants and investing for the long term. We go into debt. And we blame everyone but ourselves... Remember, fundamentally, there are two ways to have more money. You can earn more money or cut costs. If you’ve been reading this site for a long time, you’ll notice that I’d much rather focus on increasing your earning potential, whether through investments or entrepreneurship. I hate talking about frugality because, for most people in America, frugality is hopeless." http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/i_will_teach_you_to_be_rich_podcast.mp3 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:00:18 -0500 Careers no 00:18:50 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton According to Stephen Viscusi, the most important thing to remember during these tough economic times is that your job is your most valuable asset — and your primary objective is to protect it. "Work is not a democracy." And don't kid yourself — your job won't be spared because of your seniority or your hard work or your prestigious degrees. You will save your job by creating the perception of indispensability and by taking care of your boss. Period. Viscusi is a frequent contributor on the morning show circuit and NPR's "Talk of the Nation." Viscusi began his own career as a headhunter and is still involved as a consultant in executive search. His latest book is titled; Bulletproof Your Job: 4 Simple Strategies to Ride Out the Rough Times and Come Out on Top at Work. The book outlines four simple strategies for dodging the layoff bullet and 50 practical ways to implement these strategies. This no-nonsense guide offers a straightforward, action-oriented approach to protecting your job with tactics that not only help you keep the job you have, but to also to maximize your prospects for the future. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/stephen_viscusi_podcast.mp3 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:33:11 -0500 Careers no 00:23:17 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton One of the biggest challenges organizations encounter is how to thrive when faced with constant, disruptive change. The study of neuroscience has provided us with a deeper understanding of why people find change so unsettling. Neuroscience offers valuable insight into the way people approach new tasks or manage upheaval and helps us understand how the human brain utilizes mental resources to deal with ambiguity, resolve conflict, or find creative solutions to complex problems. Neuroscience can help organizations become more effective in how they manage change, which should increase organizational productivity and employee satisfaction. A groundbreaking article on NeuroLeadership was published in the Summer 2006 issue of strategy+business, written by David Rock and Jeffrey Schwartz, titled "The Neuroscience of Leadership." Peter Clayton, producer/host of Total Picture Radio, spoke with Art Kleiner at the NeurLeadership Summit in New York City. "Once leaders have created an environment that enables them to command an employee’s complete attention, the second step is to create a compelling vision of what will occur when their new idea has been implemented. Cognitive scientists are finding that people’s expectations and attitudes, known as mental maps, play a central role in their perception of the world around them. To facilitate change, leaders must encourage moments of insight that allow people to change their attitudes and expectations." The Neuroscience of Leadership" http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/art_kleiner_neuroleadership_conference.mp3 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:00:50 -0500 Careers no 00:20:08 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton The recent meltdown on Wall Street has brought CEO pay back to the forefront of business news, and the election of Barack Obama might help to keep it there for a while. Welcome to our continuing TrendWatcher series on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. The recent meltdown on Wall Street has brought CEO pay back to the forefront of business news, and the election of Barack Obama might help to keep it there for a while. Things had quieted down a bit in recent years since Sarbanes Oxley was enacted and the SEC implemented its new disclosure rules, but once again shareholders are up in arms about CEOs getting huge payouts while their companies disintegrate around them. Total Picture Radio has formed a strategic alliance with The Institute for Corporate Productivity, i4cp, allowing us to publish on our site the compete weekly research report in their TrendWatcher initiative, as well as record a weekly interview with the lead author of the article. Joining us today from St Petersburg, FL, is David Wentworth at i4cp. Read the full TrendWatcher article at www.totalpicture.com http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/tw_david_wentworth_ceo_comp.mp3 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:00:07 -0500 Careers no 00:16:17 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton "The greater your ability to rally people to your cause, especially when they do it because they want to and not because they have to, the greater your chances of success" — Liz Lynch With the recent rise in U.S. unemployment to its highest level in fourteen years, there’s never been a more important time for networking. But how can you get more results in less time? How do you find the right balance of in-person networking and all the new choices for online networking? How can you attract people into your network and keep them there? How do you become someone who people want to help? Liz Lynch ,the founder of the Center for Networking Excellence, is the author of Smart Networking (McGraw Hill). Liz helps you network smart so you don’t have to network hard. Instead of pushing yourself at people, Liz shows how you can pull them in so they’ll want to work with you. Packed with powerful strategies from Liz’s own experience and real-life stories from the field, Smart Networking describes how to integrate face-to-face techniques with a strong online presence to expand your professional circle. Liz will help you to: Overcome resistance to networking whether the problem is skill or will Find an effective networking style that’s right for you, even if you're introverted Learn the difference between effective networking, schmoozing and sucking up Identify the gaps in your network and develop a plan to fill them Tap into existing contacts and master the art of the ask Increase visibility through speaking, e-zine publishing, and blogs Expand your reach with LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Meetup.com Network unconventionally at conventions and trade shows Create value for yourself by finding strategic ways to help others http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/liz_lynch_smart_networking_podcast.mp3 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:49:16 -0500 Careers no 00:20:10 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Discover the latest science on the link between stress and performance and to better regulate our emotions in today's stressed-out world. Peter Clayton reports from the North American NeuroLeadership Summit, sponsored by Deloitte. In an article titled The Science of Managing Fears on Donny Deutsch's Big Idea Blog, Kevin Ochsner, our guest today on Total Picture Radio wrote; "During times of stress and difficulty – whether economic or personal – it is easy to feel afraid, uncertain and just plain overwhelmed. Making choices about your future from a place of strong emotion – whether its fear, anxiety or panic – may not result is the best solutions. To help cope with such trying times it is useful to know first what your emotional response is – what is it telling you and why – and second, what you can do to bring yourself back to an even keel." Kevin Ochsner is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. Kevin's research interests include the psychological and neural processes involved in emotion, pain, self-regulation, self perception, and person perception. All of his work employs a social cognitive neuroscience approach that seeks to integrate the theories and methods of social psychology on the one hand, and cognitive neuroscience on the other. evin received his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Masters degree and Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University. He has also received postdoctoral training in social psychology at Harvard and functional neuroimaging at Stanford University. His teaching includes seminars on social cognitive neuroscience and current topics in cognitive neuroscience (that focuses in some years on fMRI methodology and other years on functional neuroanatomy) as well as a lecture course on experimental psychological methods for studying emotion and social cognition. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/kevin_ochsner_neuroleadership_summit_podcast.mp3 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:05:03 -0500 Careers no 00:14:51 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton These are troubling times for knowledge-intensive businesses. Back before the economy was based on information and knowledge, it was easier for organizations to lose significant portions of their workforce and still remain productive. Welcome to our continuing TrendWatcher series on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. These are troubling times for knowledge-intensive businesses. Back before the economy was based on information and knowledge, it was easier for organizations to lose significant portions of their workforce and still remain productive. Employees weren't as likely to need deep stores of knowledge to get their jobs done. Today, reductions-in-force (RIFs) are more likely to result in having uniquely knowledgeable people walk out the door, sometimes causing unanticipated problems for businesses. If such RIFs aren't carried out carefully, they can cause a critical "dumbing down" of organizations. Total Picture Radio has formed a strategic alliance with The Institute for Corporate Productivity, i4cp, allowing us to publish on our site the compete weekly research report in their TrendWatcher initiative, as well as record a weekly interview with the lead author of the article. Joining us today from St Petersburg, FL, is Mary Key, Leadership Pillar Director at i4cp. A new survey conducted by i4cp in conjunction with HR.com found that 71% of the respondents reported that their companies have had a RIF in the last 12 months, and 39% foresee a RIF over the next six months. In many cases, companies have probably already made the "easier" cuts. Among companies that conducted a RIF over the last 12 months, about half expect more reductions over the next half year. RIFs can result not only in lost knowledge but also in the kind of organizational dynamics in which knowledge becomes more poorly used. After RIFs, companies often have to do more with fewer intellectual resources, causing the dilution of expertise. And there are also other problems: lower levels of employee engagement among those who remain, greater chances of discouraged "top talent" voluntarily leaving, more things falling "through the cracks" because people who used to handle certain details are gone, and greater numbers of dissatisfied customers due to cutbacks in services. Losing valuable knowledge, particularly tacit knowledge, has been identified as important but not necessarily urgent for many companies. Organizations have tended to focus on the short term rather than the long term, which is where they've tended to see the issue of knowledge retention. However, the current economy has speeded up the loss of knowledge, and more companies will feel the impact of critical know-how leaving the organization. visit the TrendWatcher Channel of www.totalpicture.com for the complete Trendwatcher Article http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/mary_key_down_economy_podcast.mp3 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:58:47 -0500 Careers no 00:16:12 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio, Peter Clayton A former CEO, John Case has applied his leadership skills and personal philosophy of "Focus…Accountability…Teamwork" to lead two different companies to the forefunt of their respective industries. Peter Clayton interviews John at the NeuroLeadership... A former CEO, John Case has applied his leadership skills and personal philosophy of "Focus…Accountability…Teamwork" to lead two different companies to the forefunt of their respective industries; La-Z-Boy, Inc., and Elecrolux Home Care Products. He now draws on those experiences in his role as an Executive in Residence, with the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa and as a leadership consultant and guest lecturer. At the NeuroLeadership Summit, John participated in a panel discusson on the neuroscience of leadership. One of the first things he told the audience of scientists, medical professionals, senior executives and leadership coaches was; "Every CEO will tell you that their people are their most important competitive advantage. With most companies, this is total bu**sh*t." John's company, F.A.T. Leadership, introduces a simple leadership approach that bridges the gap and creates work environments that fully align and energize the organization to increased levels of performance. The key elements outlined in F.A.T. can be used in the smallest company or the largest, strategically or operationally, in a department, a division or a corporation to create measurable results. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/john_case_neuroleadership_summit.mp3 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:50:47 -0500 Careers no 00:20:49 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio, Peter Clayton If companies can digitally monitor and then model employees and their social networks, then they'll be much better at managing those workers in a way that maximizes productivity." Welcome to our continuing TrendWatcher series on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. TPR has formed a strategic alliance with The Institute for Corporate Productivity, (i4cp), allowing us to publish on our site the compete weekly research report in their TrendWatcher initiative, as well as record a weekly interview with the lead author of the article. Joining us today from St Petersburg, FL, is Mark Vickers, VP of research at i4cp. "Beware, knowledge workers: Your halcyon days are numbered. You're in the process of being shaped into bits and bytes, numbers and equations, and your work lives will never be the same. Your organizations' productivity, however, may well spike up even as you're digitized..." http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/trendwatcher_podcast_numerati.mp3 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:03:25 -0500 Careers no 00:13:24 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio, Peter Clayton Peter Clayton reports from the North American Leadership Summit, sponsored by Deloitte. Proven strategies to change your brain and your life! 60-second Sanity Strategies from Millie Grenough, an Executive Coach and Clinical Instructor at Yale. t's 7:30 in the morning. I'm sitting in a conference room at the Millennium Hotel in New York City. It's the second day of the NeuroLeadership Summit. Someone has a ribbon attached to their name tag which reads; "My Brain Hurts." That's a good description for how I feel. The session "Guided Group Attention Exercise," is lead by Millie Grenough, an Executive Coach and Clinical Instructor in Social Work of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. I'm holding a small stone from a "take one please" bowl at the entrance. Well, "this is new," I'm thinking to myself. Millie is standing in front of the group, the projector is not working, no PowerPoint. She is totally, I mean totally unfazed by this information. Millie is a former Catholic nun who became a nightclub singer. She is the calmest person I've ever seen in New York. Like one of those TV yoga instructors. Her book is titled Oasis in the Overwhelm 60-second strategies for balance in a busy world. It's election day here in the U.S. Take a deep breath; have a listen to Millie, and learn why I still have the stone from Millie's early morning workshop. Millie Grenough is an Executive Coach and Clinical Instructor in Social Work of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. An international workshop presenter, she is President of Grenough LLC, a coaching and training organization based in New Haven, Connecticut, and is an associate of the Corporate Coaching Center. Her area of specialization is coaching individuals and groups for Peak Performance, Stress Management, Team-Building, Life/Work Balance, and Presentation Skills. Her clients include accountants, architects, athletes, attorneys, senior executives, clergy, health professionals, and planning teams from large and small businesses. As a key member of an international development team in South America, Millie provided organizational diagnosis and development of individual and group potential. In Europe, she designed curricula and practical learning strategies for multi-national business people at the University of Salamanca. At the Instituto de Estudios Norteamericanos in Barcelona, she created an innovative approach to learning languages for doctors and medical students. Her trademark Sing it! Learn English Through Song © was published as six books and six cassettes by McGraw-Hill. About the NeuroLeadership Summits The Summits are designed to bring some of the world's leading neuroscientists and leadership experts together to share what they have discovered and explore new paradigms for developing today’s and tomorrow’s leaders. The 2008 Summits were held in Sydney, Australia and New York City in the United States. The 2007 Summit was held in Asolo, Italy and brought together 55 open-minded, high-powered thinkers from many corners of the globe. The hope is to build a better science for leadership by integrating relevant neuroscientific research. http://www.totalpicture.com/content/view/695/214/ http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/grenough_neuroleadership_podcast.mp3 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:00:34 -0500 Careers no 00:17:18 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio, Peter Clayton Peter Clayton reporting from the North American Leadership Summit. Sponsored by Deloitte, LLP. Do you have a "noisy mind?""How Attention Shapes the Brian" This is powerful stuff. An interview podcast with Dr. Jeffrey M. Schwartz, a well known scientist and author, seminal thinker and researcher in the field of neuroplasticity. He is a research psychiatrist at the School of Medicine, UCLA. Do you have a "noisy mind?" The opening keynote featured Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz interpreting the remarks from quantum physicist and author, Dr. Henry Stapp: "How Attention Shapes the Brian" This is powerful stuff. It has the ability to transform corporations by understanding how to empower people, and provide effective leadership through these economically challenging times. I encourage you to open your mind to these possibilities. "A noisy mind can develop when the brain is overstimulated. Emotions such as fear or anxiety can also contribute to the noise by increasing stress levels.""One of the biggest challenges organizations encounter is how to thrive when faced with constant, disruptive change. The study of neuroscience has provided us with a deeper understanding of why people find change so unsettling. It offers valuable insight into the way people approach new tasks or manage upheaval and helps us understand how the human brain utilizes mental resources to deal with ambiguity, resolve conflict, or find creative solutions to complex problems. Neuroscience can help organizations become more effective in how they manage change, which should increase organizational productivity and employee satisfaction." http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/schwartz_neuroleadership_podcast.mp3 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:30:43 -0500 Careers no 00:25:53 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio: Peter Clayton What impact will the implosion of the financial markets have on jobs outside the financial services industry? Are you qualified and well suited for project based, independent consulting work? Peter Clayton interviews Linda Stewart. Welcome to a special Big Picture edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us today: Linda N. Stewart, president, CEO and founder of EPOCH - a company she formed in 2007 to bring together her financial service expertise and relationships with her understanding of the demographic changes in the marketplace and to introduce a new talent management resource to organizations. EPOCH acts as a broker of independently employed financial service executives who offer their project based consulting services to help companies accelerate the completion of critical business initiatives. By engaging variable cost resources who have completed similar projects in similar organizations globally, companies can drive business results quickly and cost effectively. Different from traditional consultants that focus primarily on strategy, these executives are all about execution. Total Picture Radio interviewed Ms. Stewart last year, and given the current financial crises, record number of white collar job layoffs, and general abysmal outlook for the employment market, we wanted to get her advice for those experienced professionals considering independent consulting and self-employment. Fortunately, Linda is providing advice on this topic on her blog: in a series titled, "Becoming Independently Employed: A 5 Step Guide." http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/linda_stewart_epoch_podcast.mp3 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:41:08 -0400 Careers no 00:16:17 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio, Peter Clayton Welcome to a Big Picture edition of Total Picture Radio, with Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us from San Francisco is Robert Brunner, who is the co-author of Do You Matter? How great design will make people love your company In a recent Globespotting article in BusinessWeek, Steve Hamm writes: "A couple of years ago, when Robert Brunner, the onetime industrial design chief at Apple and now head of Ammunition, was teaching a course about the emotional side of design in Stanford's engineering school, he asked the members of the class to raise their hands if they cared if Motorola went out of business. One person raised his hand. Then he asked who cared if Apple went out of business. Most everybody raised their hands." More and more companies are coming to understand the competitive advantage offered by outstanding design. With this, you can create products, services, and experiences that truly matter to your customers' lives and thereby drive powerful, sustainable improvements in business performance. But delivering great designs is not easy. Many companies accomplish it once, or twice; few do it consistently. The secret: building a truly design-driven business, in which design is central to everything you do. Do You Matter? shows how to do precisely that. Legendary industrial designer Robert Brunner (who laid the groundwork for Apple's brilliant design language) and Stewart Emery (Success Built to Last) begin by making an incontrovertible case for the power of design in making emotional connections, deepening relationships, and strengthening brands. You'll learn what it really means to be "design-driven" and how that translates into action at Nike, Apple, BMW and IKEA. You'll learn design-driven techniques for managing your entire experience chain; define effective design strategies and languages; and learn how to manage design from the top, encouraging "risky" design innovations that lead to entirely new markets. The authors show how (and how not) to use research; how to extend design values into marketing, manufacturing, and beyond; and how to keep building on your progress, truly "baking" design into all your processes and culture. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/robert_brunner_podcast.mp3 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:50:08 -0400 Careers no 00:21:55 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio, Peter Clayton Peter Clayton, producer/host of Total Picture Radio, interviews Paul Harrison, managing partner of Carve, a London-based digital engagement consultancy at the Onrec.com Expo 2008 Paul, and his team at Carve, help organizations build compelling employer brands and develop impactful talent attraction strategies. His presentation at OnRec was titled: "Listening to the Conversation - Employer Brands and the Social Media" Carve has significant expertise in social media and search marketing, ePR for HR, engagement strategy, employer brand development and marketing. Carve works with private, public and not-for-profit organizations, advertising agencies and recruitment consultancies. Paul has worked in online recruitment for more than 10 years, having joined early corporate job board Taps.com in 1997. Paul started his career with Haymarket Publishing, following a degree in Mass Media Communications. Before launching Carve Consulting, Paul set up and developed the new media divisions of two leading UK recruitment advertising agencies. Prior to that, he was sales and marketing director at acumen web, now largest UK public sector job board JobsGoPublic.com. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/paul_harrison_carve_podcast.mp3 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:35:07 -0400 Careers no 00:16:01 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio - Peter Clayton Dave Mendoza is an award winning blogger, global speaker and Master Cybersleuth consultant. Peter Clayon, producer/host of Total Picture Radio, had an opportunity to sit down with Dave Mendoza, of "Six Degrees from Dave" fame at the Onrec Conference. Dave is a leading advocate for microsite talent communities; building aggressive talent pipelines and research capabilities while maintaining substantive social networking relationships. Dave is recognized for his networking and blog achievements as one of the top 20 networkers worldwide on Linkedin and for his contributions. His recruitment blog "Six Degrees from Dave, spotlights HR industry leaders, sourcing gurus, global staffing practices and social networking. It was recently honored with 3 awards: RecruitingBlogs.com's "Best Overall Recruitment Blog of 2007"&"Best Recruitment Industry Blog of 2007, and HireAbility's "Best Recruitment Blog of 2007." Dave's blog was listed #3 out of 25 of the best blogs of 2007 by HRWorld.com. His site also received most votes for Best Recruitment blog of 2006 at Recruiting.com. Dave has presented at various global recruitment conferences, Staffing Management Association events, webinars and workshops. Most recently, he co-presented at the AustralAsian Talent Conference on "Blogging for Talent" with thought leader, Kevin Wheeler, and served on a panel on "Social Media: How is Technology Impacting Recruitment?" Panelist at Kennedy Expo Vegas 2008's "Ask the Experts — a Sourcing Summit Town Hall." He served as Moderator for a Three Part Kennedy Info, Audio Series on "Blogging for Talent, Branding and Web 2.0 Relationships" and a Kennedy Conference & Expo General Assembly Panel, "Blogging from 'Guerilla' Marketing to Mainstream Recruiting," Co-Presented both "Mastering Linkedin" an ERE "Full Day Master Session, Advanced Sourcing Workshop" with Shally Steckerl and Glenn Gutmacher. Few in the recruiting business take "networking" more seriously or pursue it more passionately. http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/podcast_dave_mendoza.mp3 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:28:35 -0400 Careers no 00:12:05 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Total Picture Radio, Peter Clayton Never has the poet Emerson's observation seemed more true: "Our distrust is very expensive." Mary Lippitt, president of Enterprise Management Ltd. and an executive in residence at i4cp, joins Peter Clayton on Total Picture Radio There are few, if any, historical periods when trust has meant more than it does today. Just look around. Not only has the recent financial crisis been rooted in a lack of trust in financial institutions, but initial attempts by political leaders to boost confidence in the markets were badly undercut by distrust. As the Washington Post recently reported, "The leaders of the country said: Trust us. The people said: Not this time." And not just expensive but destructive. Distrust is like a highly corrosive substance that disintegrates the seemingly solid, whether it be major financial institutions, stock markets or even whole economies. Just imagine what it can do within your average business organization. So, in this era of disastrous distrust, how are most businesses faring? Let's just say that things could be better. The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) recently asked its member companies and other business professionals, "To what degree do you believe your organization nurtures trust among employees?" Only about two-fifths of respondents believe their companies nurture such trust to a high or very high degree. visit www.totalpicture.com for the complete article http://www.totalpicture.com/_qt/podcast_mary_lippitt_tw17.mp3 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:33:21 -0400 Careers no 00:18:41 leadership, career advice, social networking, employment, human resources, recruiting, executive search, jobs, job search Peter Clayton Erv Thomas is a Program Manager at Intel Corporation. For the past several years he has been responsible for recruiting, mentoring, and developing the top engineering talent in the world. Monday, 18 August 2008 Four Secrets to Liking your Work Learn to get the job you want without quitting – and yes, we’re serious about this one. Do you dread the first day of your work week? (Yes, and the other four days too.) Do you wish you could make your job better? (Yes, but that’s impossible.) Do you dream of quitting and never returning? (Yes, and I blog about it every day) Do you want to change jobs but fear ending up somewhere worse? (There’s somewhere worse?) Welcome to a Success Strategies edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. E