Posts by Carol Ross
I’m Bored
It has taken exactly one month since the end of school for the words to come out of my 12-year old son’s mouth. "I’m bored." Actually he has said those words before but only when there’s been a lull in the action during a day filled with Nintendo DS, creating armor out out duct tape,…
Read MoreFinding the Right Fit, Part 2
This is a continuation of a post on finding the right fit when interviewing for a job. In that post, I talked about the role of values–how well your own values line up with a company’s values. Part 2 is to look at your talents–what you are naturally good at, what’s innate and not learned,…
Read MoreEngineers With a Whole New Mind, Part 2
Great column by Richard Felder called, "A WHOLE NEW MIND FOR A FLAT WORLD," written for the Chemical Engineering Education magazine. As you might guess, the column takes the concepts from the books, A WHOLE NEW MIND by Daniel Pink and The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, and applies it to the need to…
Read MoreFinding the Right Fit
A reader commented after seeing my post on Hiring Good People: This was an interesting article. And I’ve seen lots of articles about what employers should look for, but what about employees? What should job searchers be looking for in employers? What should they be asking (without getting weeded out) to ensure that they’re going…
Read MoreFun on a Hot Summer Day
Pictures from a recent birthday party in the backyard: Slip ‘n slide, 12-year old boys, and Super Soaker water guns. Followed by the fascination of what happens to silly putty left to melt on the patio furniture: BTW–It cleans up alot easier than one might think.
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