Admin – Al Smith, The Hired Guy

September 7, 2017

Brain Without a Heart

In his seminal novel, 1984, George Orwell wrote about the country of Oceana where the people were constantly watched, even in their own home, through the use of “telescreens.” The leader, known only as Big Brother, was always watching. Orwell’s timing was only off by a few years. Welcome to the age of Artificial Intelligence, Oceana is here. (Click on picture above to read the rest of the article)

May 12, 2017

HELP! (Not me…Help YOU Job Seekers)

LinkedIn took away a job seeker’s most important statistic, the number of profile views over a short period of time. (See below)

January 29, 2016

Job Search Hide & Seek (Jobs are not where you think)

What are you willing to do to get HIRED?

Let me guess what your job search day looks like. You trudge down to your computer, sit on your keister all day, smoke coming from the keyboard from applying for job after posted job, chase down rabbit holes researching, waiting desperately for the phone to ring (and it never does), you’re exhausted by day’s end, yet you can’t put a finger on anything that you’ve actually accomplished.