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On The Couch
Jim Durbin, Carl Chapman, Jerry Albright, Maureen Sharib, Nik Palmer

Why Wired Got It Wrong

By Richard Becker

Ever since Wired magazine saw some success by declaring newspapers dead, it seems to have developed an appetite for declaring everything dead. The latest victims? Blogs. Yep, Paul Boutin says blogs are dead.

Selling Your Personality

Reference: New York Times.

- David Axelrod is Obama's campaign manager

- his campaigns are about personality not ideas
- they don't focus on issues but on the candidate’s life
- he wants to sell the candidate as a leader

- a job hunter can do the same in an interview
- she should have clear ideas about how her job is done

- but she can also tell a story about her life
- and focus on moments in her history that define her as the person she wants to be

Leaders Are Flexible

Reference: George Jonas.

It’s definitely not for nothing that Obama -- who, in theory, stands against everything Powell has stood for, from party affiliation to policy -- responded to the endorsement of Bush’s former secretary of state by saying that he was feeling honoured and humbled.

Presidential? Pragmatic? Practical? Unprincipled?

All of the above, I’d say. The first adjective sounds like a compliment; the last one certainly doesn’t. Yet they’re not incompatible and may even be complementary.

Send Out Cards.com

Matt Mancino, a construction industry recruiter in Phoenix called to tell me about Send Out Cards.com.

You can create your own thank you or greeting cards online - in your own handwriting, if you choose -- and they print them and snail mail them for you.

Because everything is electronic today, these snail mailed cards stand out and differentiate you from the pack.

Free Online ATS

SmartRecruiters.com is a free, online applicant tracking system.

Key Points: Launches Oct 28, 2008. Set up in 2 minutes. Easy to use. Personalize your own Career Site. Includes a "vibrant" recruiter community. Includes "integrated pay-per-use recruiting services" (sounds like they will do your recruiting for you).

Online Storage Offerings - Comparison Chart

Lifehacker.

Immigrants Dislike Preference For Skilled People

TheStar.com warns that:

1. Immigrants with skills do not get a chance to use them in Canada.

2. So the government's increased preference for immigrants with job skills discriminates against the unskilled people the country actually needs.

When Chakraborti joined her husband, Sailen, in Canada, it took her just two months to parlay a master's degree in philosophy into a job as a bank teller.

"Many immigrant communities are already being discriminated left, right and centre..."

His parents have a university education and worked for Ontario Hydro as clerks...

People Can Surprise You

Source: Wall Street Journal. (edited)

Harry Truman was a small town man whose career had been sponsored by a corrupt political boss. Then he was carelessly elevated to a senior role by Frank Roosevelt. And, yet as the sponsor of the Marshall Plan and the policy of containment, he had done great things.

From this example, Peggy Noonan concludes that:

People can come from nowhere, with modest backgrounds and short résumés, and yet be individuals of real gifts.... that are suddenly revealed.

You have to give people time to show what they have. Because maybe they have magic too.

Does Sexism Pay?

Posted by Maureen Sharib
A BBC News article suggests it does - two theories are put forward to explain this phenomenon...
1) More traditionally-minded men are interested in power, both in terms of access to resources - money in this case - and also in terms of a woman who is submissive.
2) Employers are more likely to promote men who are the sole earner in preference to those who do not - they recognise that they need more support for their families, because they are the breadwinner.
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