Insiders’ Interview Tips
Going for an interview? Then “True Confessions of a Recruiter,” by Connie Thanasoulis-Cerrachio is a must-read. Connie, a former Fortune 500 recruiter, confesses how she weeds out candidates starting the first second she sees them.
No Debby Downers
As a Dead Company Club member you have unique experiences that can be booby traps in an [...]
Former Lehman Brothers employees keep getting a pitchfork in the butt. The latest round of abuse comes from Dick Fuld, Lehman’s former CEO, in response to a bankruptcy examiner’s report released March 11, 2010.
Ex-employees were understandably pissed by the 2,200 page report. A March 13th Wall Street Journal article titled “Lehman Report Confirms Former Employees’ [...]
Tags:automotive bankruptcies·Bosses·Lehman Brothers·lessons learned
“You are not alone.” [...]
Tags:anti-trust·automotive bankruptcies·bankruptcy·communications bankruptcies·dead company·energy bankruptcies·lessons learned·Ponzi scheme failures·transportation bankruptcies
“Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell?” – Snow White
Have you ever worked for a moron? Thief? Leech? Welcome to the club. If your company is dead there was a stinker somewhere, maybe even a full-blown level 5 toxic environment. Here’s the Seven Dwarfs Standard, developed when I had [...]
Tags:Bosses·dead company
YIKES. This was the prescient license plate of a former investment broker who can’t afford the car anymore. It’s my G-rated exclamation when I read about the growing stacks of worthless stock certificates, old employee IDs and the latest additions to the club.
American pastimes closed indefinitely
Closings have gone way beyond what you read in the [...]
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