I’m quoted in this article about mistakes that new managers often make. I talked about being too chummy, not delivering difficult feedback, and being defensive because you’re insecure in your authority. You can read it here…
ways that new managers mess up
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Interesting article, one of my old shops is going through this stuff right now with new management after a buyout that is making the place a hellhole and killing morale. It’s a shame to see people get beaten down like they are.
Now if you could just do something about the unusable horror that is monster.com. They are a classic example of a website not doing any usability testing or just not giving a crap about it.
Their newest redesign is brutal. It was one of the most usable job sites out there, and now it is terrible.
Links don’t seem to be working. I keep getting to the Monster site, but I can’t see the article, I only get “There was an unexpected problem processing your request”
Dan
Strange — I just tried and they worked. Maybe a momentary glitch that’s been fixed?
This may be a bit presumptuous of me, but why don’t more companies just dedicate a webpage or two towards job listings? Most of the listings on job search engines such as Monster are for small and medium sized companies with only a few jobs to fill.
The reason why I state that is that candidates who apply for jobs on the company website might actually have to do a little homework prior to applying – whereas in Monster it’s pretty easy to rapid-fire off resumes.
It’d be harder to reach potential employees that way. You’d just be hoping they stumble across your page.
A compromise a lot of places seem to have is posting on Monster/Workopolis/whatever and driving the applicant back to their own web site to read about the job and apply.