New year new me. New Year’s Resolutions are like performance reviews: if everyone fixed bad habits as they happened, they’d be totally unnecessary. But we’re humans. We don’t. Even after the once a year reminder. (It’s funny because it’s true.) I do have a resolution...
I used effect and affect in the same blog. Ask me anything. How hard did VC funding fall off in 2023? And how did that affect recruiting? Some stats: 👉In dollars: VC investment down by 45.6% Q1 to Q3 2023 vs 2022 (here) 👉In deal volume: VC deals down 31% Q3 2023...
The kids call it rizz Two hard interviewing truths to ruin your holiday season: 👉You don’t have to agree with interview feedback. But if you have a mental meltdown over it, you weren’t right for the job anyway. Everyone likes to say they want feedback. But we’ve all...
How “How Money Works” butchered the Ghost Jobs explanation. Influencers just say stuff. Shocker. Back in the day, if you wanted to learn a new topic, options were limited. Take a class. Read a book. Ask a friend. Now? It’s all on YouTube. You can learn a...
On Fridays I’ll share stories from my mailbag. DM’s open lol. “I have feedback for you. On Zoom calls you look like you don’t want to be here. You need to smile more.” That was given to a contact of mine. An internal recruiter. From her manager, the...
I swear it was different The Mandela Effect: a type of false memory that occurs when many different people incorrectly remember the same thing. In the 1980s, a lot of people thought that Nelson Mandela died in prison. (He lived until 2013.) Darth Vader never said...
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