Globally, many people are losing their jobs due to the economic downturn. Some friends of mine have become victims of this.
It is very easy to get angry and bitter at your (previous) employer if you lose your job. And understandably so; after all, you put a lot of time and effort into your work [...]
And actually listen to them!
I have been employed at places that have spent exorbitant amounts of time and money to hire intelligent and experienced professionals to do a job which, in my view, was beneath them.
But they were offered a high salary, so most of them came aboard.
After a little while at the company, almost [...]
If you are hiring a web developer, watch ze frank’s video on hiring a web developer below.
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I was a web developer for 5 years, so i can tell you (sadly) that the web developer stereotype he parodies in the video is fairly accurate in a lot of cases. Still very funny though.
Do not guarantee something you are unsure about.
Many of the sales people we have hired at our business have found this a bit difficult. About 90% of these “unsure” guarantees come back to bite the company and the sales person, costing time and ultimately money to fix something that could have been easily avoided.
Before [...]
Recently we have had a salesperson working for us who was also a self promoted SEO expert. He previously had an SEO / SEM company that went bust due to some shoddy money management and wheeling & dealing by one of his former business partners.
At the time, we had no reason to disbelieve his story.
A [...]
