Those of you who have read this blog for a long time know that I’ve been critical of Google VP of People, Laszlo Bock, due to lack of execution in the past. Things like placing an ad in a magazine and forgetting to launch the microsite or worse ignoring employee referrals that were highly relevant [...]
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Career Distinction : Stand Out by Building Your Brand
Co-written by Kirsten Dixson and William Arruda (deleted blog at http://blog.williamarruda.com/blog/) have written an unique book in Career Distinction : Stand Out by Building Your Brand. On the Amazon review, you can see several reviews already about the usefulness of the messages about personal branding. More important is that it’s the first book of it’s [...]
How Much Equity For Your Venture Capital Funding and Employees?
As discussed in my recent post about a TiE event on Chicago start ups, there are many factors to consider when taking in funding and employees. Don Dodge discussed in great detail Paul Graham’s The Equity Equation post. So I’d like to ask the blogosphere, “How does one judge this inflection point of being better [...]
Post an MBA Alumni Job or Career Posting
Why post that experienced level Top 10 MBA business school or retained search opportunity to the masses when you could contact already well connected innovative thought leaders in Internet, search engines, mobile commerce, investment management, private equity and venture capital directly via the blogosphere? Thanks for dropping by via your search engine of choice. Comments [...]
Unethical Hiring Practices: Job Search Sites Serve Up Ads With No Intent to Hire US Workers
James Carlini wrote an article on Hiring Practices: More Talent Often on the Street Than at Many Companies outlining the sleazy practices of these lawyers he mentions in the article and on the Youtube video he mentions on his site. A good reform would bring transparency to this process and the real harm it brings [...]
Kijiji Falls Short
As much as I’d like to see some things replace the aging Craiglist, the US version of Kijiji 1.0, announced yesterday, isn’t it. There are too many things to list from a user standpoint, here are just a few: 1) No resume posting section in the jobs section. The reply to blind ads system in [...]
Jerry Yang in as Yahoo! CEO
Susan Decker also promoted to President. Read Jerry’s thoughts here on the Yahoo! blog Official Releases I can’t say I’m totally shocked by this based on recent events. No need to rehash those – you can read those on the other blogs and outlets. Although it was clearly emotional and difficult for all, it was [...]
Google Should Not Set Immigration Policies
It would be truly amazing if Lazslo Bock of Google would actually spend his time hiring highly qualified candidates with innovative minds that are already US Citizens instead of pandering to Congress. Maybe he should focus more on his operations and his employee referrals rather than trying to extort a cheaper workforce from overseas.
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David Dalka is a digital business strategy professional experienced in realigning organizations to capture customer demand while improving margins. David is a business keynote speaker providing customized business strategy services and corporate executive retreats. David has been cited in the following business publications
