“Get Set” to Interview for Information

Interviewing for information presents one of the greatest challenges to job seekers -- yet it's still the Number One way most people change careers. When you network this way, you aren't asking for a job -- just learning more about the culture, skills and informal rules of a new career. Here are seven tips to GET SET for your networking challenge.

The Five Essential Hiring Practices

Recruiting and hiring are often done in haste, leaving the company to repent in the long run. Today, there's a reason to be concerned about negligent hiring. Negligent hiring means you and your company can be sued if one of your hires injures other employees, especially if you could have foreseen a problem but did not do a thorough check of the new employee before…

Mike Interviews the Googleplex…

Hear me! For I have been to the mountaintop Tuesday night's SES mixer in San Jose was highly anticipated by most attendees. It was, after all, the Google Dance -being held at the Googleplex no less. At roughly 6:30, the tour busses started to line up outside the main convention center to begin shuttling attendees to the land of the giant. Needless to say, I…