Darn you, Nick Corcodilos. Nick sent me a message yesterday that basically asked if I had read Mr. Stack’s manifesto yet? (I hadn’t.) He then asked what I thought about it. And then he said, “Why don’t you write about it? This was not a crazy guy. Fried, yes. Crazy, I don’t think so. How [...]
“My BF left and he took my cat, my car and the chair!”
Posted in February 17th, 2010
It started for me a few years back when several of us would get together after a series of interviews. What? You didn’t think the interviewers talked about YOU after the interview? Anyway. Most were recent college grads. Good interview reports degraded with the number of beers consumed quickly to “Did you hear what he [...]
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Have Job Boards Jumped the Shark and See How Nick Corcodilos Helps Gen X/Y By Exposing One of Their Advisors
Posted in December 16th, 2009
Ed. Note. My colleague Toby Dayton, CEO of LinkUp, wrote a groundbreaking and analytical piece on the current state of recruitment advertising. I am running the article in its entirety here but you should really jump over to Toby’s blog at Diggings, and sign up for his RSS feed and updates. There’s no better place. [...]
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Brett Favre, Nick Corcodilos and Seth Godin: Connect the Dots
Posted in September 29th, 2009
You most likely saw the last minute or so of the Minnesota Vikings-San Francisco 49′ers game. You know, the one where Brett Favre threw a touchdown pass with two seconds left. Two seconds. It. Was. Amazing. I used this game, and mostly the heroics of Brett Favre to write a blog post for US NEWS [...]
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Nick Corcodilos, AskTheHeadhunter, Finally Recommends a JobBoard or Why Not Caring About What You Get Back is the Secret of Networking
Posted in March 6th, 2009
by admin in Work-related
The easy part of this post is to shout from the mountaintop that Nick Corcodilos likes LinkUp.com best, but that would miss the bigger point, as well as a “learning” opportunity for others. The backstory. Years ago, I read some of Nick’s columns which were then being nationally syndicated in tech magazines and newspapers across [...]
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Paul Epps: Interviewing Techniques
Posted in January 11th, 2009
by admin in Work-related
Ed. Note: Most of us who write about the job search, resumes and interviews often make the mistake of being condescending, as in “Sammy, you dummy, here is how you should do your resume.” Other times, we write stuff that is equivalent to “and the world is round.” When we do succeed, it’s most often [...]
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Reviews of DIG YOUR JOB: On Playboy.com, And More.
Posted in December 15th, 2008
The first review of Dig Your Job is up now at Playboy.com. Rumor is that National Geographic is next. Kidding. But seriously, the most recent three book reviews at this site were Snowball, Alice Schroeder’s brilliant biography of Warren Buffet, Andrew Zuckerman’s classy portrait book Wisdom (with Clint Eastwood on the cover), and hilarious Men [...]
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