This week I was asked to guest lecture to a group of senior marketing students at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business on the importance of marketing in an organization.

Recently I had the opportunity to chat a bit with the owner of a local agency here in Minneapolis. We were talking about the challenges of finding the right talent–even in an economy where there still are great people looking for work. Specifically, we were talking about students and how we both hear the refrain [...]

I’ve been mentoring college students for about eight years; it was never a planned thing, just my personality. I like to teach. I like to help. I like people – well, most of the time. And I like to give back as I was lucky to have great mentors throughout my career. I’m lucky to [...]

A new study from CareerBuilder looks at indicators of being addicted to work and what workers can do to find a balance between work and personal time in the New Year.

“UNC Grad Seeks Non-Lame-Ass Job.” Upon posting a Craigslist ad with the aforementioned title, recent UNC-Chapel Hill graduate James Daigle received a slew of messages from HR workers asking him, “What are you doing?!” James has been taking a very unconventional approach to his job search and there is a lot you can learn from [...]

I have a number of passions in life. One of them, it seems, is helping people find jobs. I find myself gravitating toward that work often. It led me to organize a one-day “tweet-a-thon” to help my friends Scott Hepburn and Sonny Gill (who were both looking at the time). It led me to co-found [...]