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Online Gaming Tale Demonstrates Why Companies Do Hiring Assessments
Recently, I was once again asked why companies administer hiring assessments. As usual, my answer included the importance of an applicant...
Ed Lawrence
Jun 13, 20202 min read


Your Résumé Questions Answered
Click to view my answers to common questions.
Ed Lawrence
Feb 13, 20201 min read


4 Ways Acting Like a Poker Pro Will Improve Your Job Search
I asked my friend the poker expert what separates the poker pros from the rest of us. He recited four characteristics that enable the...
Ed Lawrence
Jul 6, 20194 min read


Applying Online? Why not Play Poker?
The Old Rules No Longer Work My friend John, a professional poker player and my poker mentor, once asked me, “If you ever did pay $10K to...
Ed Lawrence
Jun 30, 20193 min read


Why Sell Me This Pen is Still Relevant
Brigette Hyacinth (Author: The Future of Leadership: Rise of Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence) recently posted on...
Ed Lawrence
Jan 5, 20193 min read


Interviewing Success: Will You Fit the Culture?
In part one of the Interviewing Success series, you learned: Everyone is hired as a problem-solver. In part two, you learned the first...
Ed Lawrence
Jan 3, 20194 min read


Want to Keep Doing That?
Interview Success: Will You Want to Keep Doing the Job? In part one of the Interviewing Success series you learned: Everyone is hired as...
Ed Lawrence
Dec 31, 20184 min read


Can you do the Job?
In the first part of this interviewing success series you learned: Everyone is hired as a problem-solver. They only care about your skill...
Ed Lawrence
Dec 24, 20182 min read


PEOPLE Hire People
You were perfect for that job. You had all the skills they listed in the ad. When they asked that softball “tell me about yourself”...
Ed Lawrence
Dec 20, 20184 min read


The Importance of Onboarding
This story is based on a real incident. The client worked with me on the story and approved it. Names have been changed to preserve...
Ed Lawrence
Jul 26, 20184 min read


How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice!
The economy seems to be doing great. You've seen the official unemployment statistics. We keep hearing about a "skills gap." Yet, so many...
Ed Lawrence
Apr 13, 20182 min read


Networker, Networker, How does your Garden Grow?
Recently, someone asked me how I became so good at networking. My reaction was one of surprise. Me? Expert networker? (How did that...
Ed Lawrence
Mar 7, 20183 min read


Hiring Assessments: Why Companies Use Them
#interview #unemployed #assessments
Ed Lawrence
Mar 2, 20181 min read
How to Start a Business---in 50 Steps
How to Build a Company in Fifty Steps A summary of an article at https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/252811 Be inspired. Have a passion....
Ed Lawrence
Apr 25, 20172 min read
Things I learned from a Recruiter
Back in 2014 I worked briefly for a company at which I got to know the company’s recruiter. For three weeks, he taught me how he worked...
Ed Lawrence
Mar 27, 20173 min read
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