Archive for the 'Q&A' Category


Q&A: Climbing out of the hole

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

You think you have problems? We’re the parents of a 30-year-old college-grad-gone-wrong man. Our son now has two incidents and a criminal record as a result of his ten-year obsession with eastern culture (martial arts/intense spiritual yoga indoctrination). He got fired from his daytime jobs and still has a few hearings scheduled in court. While [...]


Q&A: Where should recruiters look for candidates?

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

A recruiter from a consulting firm asks whether I really shun job boards, and where to find good candidates really fast… Question I caught you on NPR last week and thought you were a breath of fresh air! I am in the process of letting our CareerBuilder job posting account loose. First, because it costs [...]


Q&A: No connections, no opportunities

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Question As someone who’s rather “out of the loop,” living out in the country, I don’t have social or business connections with the folks at the in-city companies for which I should be working. Is there any best method for finding and approaching the decision-makers who have the problems that I certainly can solve? Until [...]


Q&A from WNYC Radio

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Yesterday I did 20 minutes with Brian Lehrer on WNYC, New York Public Radio. (I archived the audio on the blog post prior to this one if you’d like to listen.) We’ll be doing an Ask The Headhunter segment every week through July. Hope you’ll join us! 20 minutes is not a lot of time [...]