Hire Thoughts
Our tips and insights on jobs and hiring.
40 Over 40: Meet Nika Kabiri, decision scientist, author, and newfound gamer
We’ve all had the experience of watching others make mistakes and wondering, why did that person make that choice, or why do they continue to make that same mistake again and again? It’s questions like these that drove Nika Kabiri into the emerging field of Decision...
A new “Roaring Twenties”? Your workforce may not be ready.
Over the past year, we’ve talked to a lot of clients and partners about how to weather the COVID-related economic downturn. But now it looks like there’s at least a chance that we all need to start getting ready for something very different: a boom in resurgent...
If all your exes live in Texas, how does that affect their employers’ nexus?
As if COVID-19 hadn’t created enough headaches for employers and employees alike, here’s another potential brainbuster to consider as we head into tax season. When businesses nationwide shifted overnight to work-from-home arrangements in response to the pandemic, many...
New hot topic in HR: Getting employees vaccinated.
At long last, COVID-19 vaccinations are available and moving forward in earnest. This is tremendous news for all of us – but for HR professionals, it raises some urgent and potentially complex issues. One of them involves the basic question of whether employers may...
Hell Yeah! Tourism comms pro joins ToursByLocals, has cool name.
We're thrilled to announce that our search for a new ToursByLocals VP of Marketing has turned up a winner. Nikki Hellyer, who most recently led the marketing and communications team for the luxury-tourism firm Rocky Mountaineer, will be taking the top marketing...
His bio is so unique, it revives defunct beer-ad campaigns. He’s the most interesting man in the world.
For those of you who miss the Dos Equis “Most Interesting Man In The World” ad campaign (a true modern classic), I seem to have found a lost script: He checked Paris off his “bucket list” the moment he was born. Bellevue invited him to live there just because he...
Yes, a lot of great companies are still hiring great people. Exhibit A: Valant.
Do you remember February? Ah, February – those heady, halcyon days when people walked around all maskless and carefree, foraying within six feet of one another just as pretty as you please. Children attended school. People worked at a place called "work." The world...
Changepoint Announces New Hires – And I Share Some Local Favorites
Some more good news from a client that seems to produce a lot of it: Changepoint has announced it is hiring Ingrid Rood as its new North America Vice President of Sales, and Scott Mitchell as Product Marketing Manager for Services Automation. We at Peckman Search...
COVID-19 and Your Job Search
Right before I began writing this announcement, I had to do another quick check of the news to see if there was yet another pandemic-related transformation of normal life. I'll probably check again at least once by the time I'm done writing. As of the moment I'm...
A Tremendous Trio of New Hires at Changepoint and GLDN
We usually fill this space with announcements of new openings, but it's nice to occasionally celebrate people and organizations who have made it through to the other end of the process. Two of my valued clients -- Changepoint and GLDN -- have just made some very...