I Can't Take It Anymore!

Its the weekend.!

It’s the weekend!

Are you shutting your phones, turning off your Blackberry’s or tying to impress yourself with the fact that you are available 24/7?  Employers are impressed with: smart people, who lead balanced lives, work hard and know when to say, “NO!

Shut the phone and smell the roses.  You may just be more relaxed for the craziness that we all know Monday will bring!

Unemployed Executives

I don’t want to really “knock” any of the people at the airports who work for the TSA but I can tell you that I have a better idea in view of the most recent headlines!

There are thousands, if not millions of people who are out of work who have had more responsible jobs than those people currently doing the screening!..Why don’t we take the current screeners (God forbid we should fire them) and have them check BAGS not PEOPLE??

Why don’t we then take these “more skilled” unemployed executives, send them to an intensive training program and give them permanent jobs checking PEOPLE.  A large percentage of these folks already know that they are in need of a career change!  Then lets pay them a really good salary to do this really important job the best part of my idea is how we would fund the program!

Lets get this guy Feinberg who is in charge of limiting the salaries of those executives in companies that have received government bailouts and just have him say to them and their companies….”you guys can get paid whatever you want, you will just have to kick in 10 or 15% of your salary to pay for our NEW TSA TEAM! …And your “contribution is tax deductible!

Everybody wins..the current TSA employees, the unemployed executives looking for jobs, the public looking for safety and politeness in the screening process, Feinberg who wants the citizenry to think he’s doing something, the highly paid executives who certainly can afford the money and the politicians who would look smarter than they are, for creating the program>>>>>>The only losers……The Bad Guys!

"Truth is stranger than fiction"

These are crazy times indeed!  They are giving flu shots to people who aren't sick yet and they haven't figured how to make the sick banks better. They've given people thousands for Clunkers but haven't figured out how to get people who want to work less expensive gas in the fuel efficient cars they already own, that could get them to the jobs they once had at the companies that made the Clunkers that are now getting money for trading in the Clunkers.  And of course they have people in Washington trying to fix all the things they made go wrong.  Truth is stranger than fiction.

"The subject is simple"

At the risk of getting some folks a little perturbed, I'm writing this so I get a response from someone whose been through the hiring process lately and read some of my blogs!  I would love to hear from anyone responsible for recently recruiting an executive for their company.  So far, I've received agreement, if not applause from fellow search firms, candidates looking for jobs and other types of disgruntled "Job Board Users"!  The subject is simple:  How many of you out there have found that using JOB BOARDS is the BEST way to find the BEST PERSON?  The statistics that I've seen would indicate that there aren't as many of you as the average candidate ( who shells out a nice piece of change to be on the Board) thinks!