Work Life

The balance between work and life has been a big part of the work ethics discussion the last 2 or so years. Why? Because more and more people in the Netherlands are looking for a good balance between work and their private life. Another part is the discussion on healthy employees, and how far can [...]

Performance evaluation quotes…

Harry Maugans has this list of actual Employee Performance Evaluation Quotes:
Check out his page for the full list.
The first 10:

Since my last report, this employee has reached rock-bottom and has started to dig.�
“I would not allow this employee to breed.�
“This employee is really not so much of a has-been, but more of a definite won’t [...]

executive search: not the real thing?

Some time back i wrote about the fact that executive search firms are in it just for the quick wins….
I recently had another experience with a big executive search firm.The big thing with this firm was that they came clean right in the beginning, “managing expectations”, about not working for me, but working for their [...]

executive search firms are in it just for the quick wins….

Well.. you probably now i’m working in the financial sector. And after a few years it becomes time to look around, especially if you have never worked at another company like the case is with me. I had spoken to a couple of recruiting firms in the past years, but nothing ever came out of [...]