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Eavesdropping

One of my favorite channels is Biography. I’ve always enjoyed biographies because they usually reveal secrets and insights into a person’s character that help you to better understand their fates. The other night I was watching the biography of the gigantically talented but physically diminutive Judy Garland.

She was sitting on a couch with her three children (it must have been sometime in the 60’s) and she was talking about how all her life she had been a “terrible eavesdropper”, always fascinated by what was going on in the other room. The problem, she described, as her doe eyes looked directly at the camera, was that every time she looked through a keyhole there was an eye looking back at her.

In The Direction of My Dreams

When I was a little girl I remember asking my mother what she’d like to have for Christmas. She’d always say some version of the following: “I just want you kids (all five) to be good!”

It wasn’t until I was a mother myself for awhile that I understood her words.

A couple years back I was walking through a popular local high-end mall before Christmas with my twenty-two year old and oldest daughter, Andrea. The stores were festooned with holiday paraphernalia and their windows and aisles stuffed with merchandise that seemed to flow out into the corridors. As we passed the Coach store I could see her eyes fall on an eye-popping $300 what couldn’t have been larger than 6x8 inch number that wasn’t much thicker than an inch. “How in the world would you get a tube of lipstick into that thing let alone a hairbrush?” I thought to myself. Her gait slowed and then she stopped before the window, most definitely enchanted. We stood there for a few minutes, perusing the merchandise, pointing at this and pointing at that before moving on. After a few steps, I said to her, “You know, Andrea, you may not believe this at this time, but there will come a time in your life when these merchandisers won’t be able to PAY YOU to take what they have in their shops home.”

Hiring is Art & Science

"At the end of the day, it does come down to your gut."

Hiring a good employee is "both an art and a science," says Allan MacKenzie, the director of client fulfilment at Mpower Business Guides, a Guelph consulting firm. The key is to come up with a good system, but to add a touch of intuition, says MacKenzie, who spoke recently on hiring at a workshop presented by the Waterloo-based Centre for Family Business. And, he notes, there are plenty of potential pitfalls for employers: candidates who dazzle at interviews but fizzle out on the job, applicants who come highly recommended but don't work out in the long run.

How I Learned to Telephone Names Source by Learning How to Wash Dishes

By Maureen Sharib

Part I
When I first started telephone names sourcing in 1996 I had never heard of the activity of names sourcing. I'd been taking a sabbatical from a long career in the real estate business when someone online asked me what I did for a living. Thinking then that what one "did for a living" was what one received remuneration for, I answered, "Nothing at the moment."

How wrong that was.

"Would you like to do some telephone names sourcing?" he asked.

The More Things Change...

THE distribution of wealth lies at the heart of political economics. Nations and empires have risen and fallen, and millions have died, as a result of humanity’s struggle to decide how (or whether) to divide wealth. But for all that, the level of wealth inequality has remained remarkably consistent over the last 2,000 years, according to a recent study by Branko Milanovic, a researcher with the World Bank, and two economics professors, Peter H. Lindert of the University of California, Davis, and Jeffrey G. Williamson of Harvard University (economics.harvard.edu).

Change Is In the Air We Breathe

Krista Bradford from The Good Search points us at this over on her ERE blog. A picture does say a thousand words. Thanks Krista!
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Do something today you don’t think you can do. Lose phone fear here.

Gender gap falls miniscule amount

Pay gap between men and women falls to all-time low
The gender gap between male and female earnings is narrower than ever, according to the Office for National Statistics.

The ONS's latest survey reveals that men earn on average 17.2 per cent more than women - down from 17.5 per cent a year ago. That figure includes a significant number of very high male earners. Stripping out the extremes at either end of the labour market reduces the gap somewhat - to 12.6 per cent, again a little lower than in 2006 (12.8 per cent).

For part-time workers, the gap is 35.6 per cent. The preponderance of women in traditionally badly rewarded occupations and in part-time work are major factors in the gender gap.

Whole story here.

Halloween "Fun"

Something cute for the "kids" to play with.

"...you need to get your nose bloodied."

Excellent, earnest response from Barbara Goldman over on ERE about what it REALLY takes to be a recruiter (or sourcer, or anything successful!) Barbara's is listed first (meaning she is at the bottom of the string). I suggest you read, and heed, her words!

"Trust me, I know how hard it is. And, I know why people do it. The lure of the freedom to work at home, and the promise of big money is tempting. But, the realities of the business are truly brutal. It takes a crusty old broad like me, or a manager who has been through every tough situation in the book to lead you and guide you on a daily basis in order to make you the success you deserve to be, and the professional this industry demands you to be. There are no shortcuts...Yep, you need to get your nose bloodied. Just like the new attorney who works from dawn to dusk or the resident who puts in 100 hours per week, this is a profession that the average person can't master in a few months. Corporations will chew you up and spit you out. Candidates will break your heart. Purchasing training isn't enough. You need daily, real world experience. There are a lot of fine, established firms to work for. Please consider it."