{"id":219,"date":"2006-10-13T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-14T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2006\/10\/13\/another-established-personalized-service-put-to-rest-by-macys\/"},"modified":"2012-11-25T18:25:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T23:25:41","slug":"another-established-personalized-service-put-to-rest-by-macys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2006\/10\/13\/another-established-personalized-service-put-to-rest-by-macys\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Established Personalized Service Put to Rest by Macy’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marshall Field’s was slaughtered, now Macy’s killed the personalized stationary in\u00a0the store too<\/a>. It’s interesting how much this relates to recruiting. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Personal stationery makes you feel like you’ve arrived. For the person on the receiving end, opening the envelope is like opening a gift. <\/em><\/p>\n

The ladies of the Personalized Stationery Team were like fairy godmothers. They knew their products, their manners and what was appropriate for every occasion. They helped customers create a first impression that made a statement before the recipient read a single word. <\/em><\/p>\n

It could easily take hours to choose stationery, which is nothing when you consider it can take years to use it up. A few weeks after placing an order, the stationery arrived in the mail, appropriately. Inside the cardboard mailing boxes were the stationery boxes themselves, sturdy, tasteful yet fancy. The stationery fit perfectly inside its box. The paper was bundled with a sealed paper ring, the envelopes underneath neatly stacked like folded laundry.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It then goes on to say:<\/p>\n

The online stationery shopping experience promises the full dose of isolation and frustration.<\/strong> There we’ll be, staring at the computer screen, clicking down endless selections of paper, trying to discern on a flickering screen the true texture and weight of paper, wondering what color it will it be in real life. No one will be there to suggest the perfect color of ink, or a squiggle or flourish or icon that will turn mere paper and ink into a personal trademark.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds to me like an exact replica of what is happening in online recruiting, a working process has been replaced with and isolating and frustrating process that doesn’t bring true thought leaders into leadership roles.<\/strong> What is the quality of the paper and sentence structure – who is this person? We need to put the most talented hiring managers back into the final selection of sourced resumes before recruiters call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marshall Field’s was slaughtered, now Macy’s killed the personalized stationary in\u00a0the store too. It’s interesting how much this relates to recruiting. \u00a0 Personal stationery makes you feel like you’ve arrived. For the person on the receiving end, opening the envelope is like opening a gift. The ladies of the Personalized Stationery Team were like fairy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-experience","category-online-recruiting","category-recruiting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t