I think that if most professionals wrote reports, briefs, letters, plans or even email as incompetently as they write job descriptions, our knowledge-based economy would crumble and we would all be herding something that bleats. Which may or may not be different from what we do at work today, but would be infinitely sadder. Visit […]
Marketing Recruitment is Broken Part 2: Expose Yourself to ART
Here’s a fun task for a day when you don’t have much to do. Go online, find a terrific-sounding position at a great company and start applying for it using their nifty online recruiting system. The website promises it uses state-of-the-art algorithms to mine your data and find you that perfect role. If you could […]
Marketing Recruitment is Broken Part 1: Bethany's Revenge
Meet my friends Pam and Ron. Pam has been trying to hire a marketing specialist for months. Not enough experience, too much experience, degree in botany, no industry experience; the list of reasons not to hire someone is endless. Ron, on the other hand, has been wandering, with his spider plant, around the parking lots […]
Keeping Skippy Busy: The Scourge of the Summer Student
It always seems like such a great idea in February. That’s when HR stops staring at the chicken entrails long enough to ask if you want a summer student in your department. And despite all evidence that you really don’t, you say yes. You say yes because someone needs to shift that box of brochures. […]
Social Media for Grown-Ups
I really, really, really didn’t want to like this book. I was so looking forward to taking the piss out of authors with the audacity to promise to make me a Marketing Superstar, let alone by doing it with B2B social media marketing. I mean, what are the odds? Social media’s contribution in the B2B […]