In 2012, my sourcing work life was completely focused on process improvement and an inherent “need for speed”   At some point it felt like I was living a mash-up of The Bionic Woman and Top Gun , completely focused on being better, stronger, faster.  Analyzing and improving processes, is, quite frankly, an obnoxious task.  MORE >>

If highly successful marketing and sales people are mapping their selling process to their prospects buying process, shouldn’t job seekers map their search process to a company’s hiring process? When corporate management considers the need for a new position, there is a clear decision process framework. MORE >>

There are several different processes of management, but four old-fashioned but key functions that provide the “technology of management”  have been identified:   Planning, Organizing, Motivating, and Controlling. Setting goals is an invaluable task that must be done to establish order within a department or organization. MORE >>

I won’t go into details, but when I began giving her tips on how to organize, track, and measure her job search, she agreed that I should turn this advice into a blog post. Step reached in hiring process (waiting, never heard back, phone screen completed or scheduled, interview completed or scheduled, and rejected). Make sense? MORE >>

One of the reasons we celebrate large companies that have lean processes built into their marketing and talent acquisition efforts is because it’s so rare a thing. It’s a tough nut to crack to change the approval process, particularly when multiple people are involved. So we have the tools, what we need is a process. MORE >>