What’s Your Saddest-But-Can-Now-Laugh-At Red-Flag Story?

Feb 25

Carolann Jacobs on February 25th, 2009

Miriam Salpeter, my partner for “Land Your Dream Job” and I were talking about some of the “horror” stories from her recruiter friends about major faux pas that candidates have done in interviews (such as calling their previous boss an insane a$$hole).   She recently wrote a post on her blog about Red Flags and [...]

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Managing Group Politics With a Bitch : )

Dec 15

Carolann Jacobs on December 15th, 2008

A Case Study of How One Poor Hire and a Merger Changed the Culture of an Organization Once upon a time, in 1990, Team Jacobs was born with its first new hire, Bloodfang (dog).  Bloodfang was hired in a dual role of support staff and security.  He was brilliant and did his job with pride, [...]

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