Top Leadership Books

Career Development Carnival: May 2012 Edition
Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes This week, I met with an engineer who was losing his job the following day after 24 years with the same company. He is lucky to have outplacement services from his ex-employer. As we talked, he clearly understood the challenges ahead of him – specifically how to research and absorb the vast amount of career and job hunting inform […]
Lynn Dessert
Are writing skills impacting your professional career?
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes There has been a lot of focus on writing skills with my clients. Three of my clients find that their writing skills are hurting them in their professional careers. Are your writing skills impacting your career? Here are a few facts about the group: Client 1 is an attorney and their firm identified their writing skills as a deficie […]
Lynn Dessert
Staffing Insights into Candidate Feedback from the Software Scout
Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes Eric Derby is a Rochester NY area based staffing consultant (he’s more than a recruiter!), also known as The Software Scout. When I first met Eric, I was intrigued by his business model, personalized approach and the results he gets with his clients and candidates. I asked him to share his story with Elephants at Work and asked hi […]
Lynn Dessert