Many of you know that I am a data junkie. Each morning I have a routine that includes looking at 3 newspapers (on-line, of course), oil and gas futures, Conference Board reports and stock futures. I tweet (follow me: @David_Magy)...
It is a relatively quiet week . . . . . so it is time to catch up on last year’s reading (the pile I kept) and plan for the year to come. I was reading HR Magazine and a quote caught my eye:
“Job security is a myth. Set up Me Inc. – a...
I spent 7 years working in the outplacement/career transition industry. Four of the six of us at Abeln, Magy, Underberg & Associates came from the same outplacement company. Each person we worked with had their own story – about why they were there (in...
I was reading the September, 2017 HR Magazine (a SHRM publication) while waiting for a colleague to join me at a breakfast meeting. There was a small article in the HR News section on parents of employees who want to be involved in their adult children’s...
On August 1st (2017), we start year 22 as a Retained Executive Search firm. Ken and Mary Abeln, co-founders with me (David Magy), actually set up our firm a month earlier – working on all of the business and legal requirements to start operating on...
Can you ask a person’s salary history? Does it matter what they make or made? Doesn’t the company have a range they work from?
These are great questions – and have been asked for what seems to be forever – since I first entered the human...
People ask me all the time, what separates an average candidate from an exceptional candidate? For people in transition, I am commonly asked about factors relating to job search success. I am not sure I fully have an answer, but I found an article that offered a...
According to the Georgetown Center on Education & The Workforce, about 74% of all job openings in Minnesota will require some post-secondary education. The United States will fall short by 5 million workers with post-secondary education by the year...
The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal published a great article last week. 17 Navy SEAL Principles That Every Salesperson Should Practice (by Gregg Swanson) is actually written for the benefit of...