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Refreshing Interviews

// August 4th, 2006 // No Comments » // Business, Career, Christianity, Leadership, Management, Ministry

Rarely in an interview with a potential employer do you have a discussion and it goes well.

By “discussion”, I mean that you feel valued and encouraged to continue on in who you are, and the potential employer walks away with something they didn’t have before. Some piece of wisdom or an idea which they had not conceived just yet. This makes the time equitable for both sides. A discussion interview is a dialogue between equal parties. It has elements of the sweet talk of a guy courting a girl, but also elements of an online compatibility test wherein the data is the data and the fit is the fit.

Conformity

// January 28th, 2006 // No Comments » // Business, Career, Community, Family, Health, Parenting

Where I work we have a day care. Children as young as two begin coming to day care twice a weak for “child development”. Yesterday I noticed again how the teachers are constantly instructing the 2-4 year olds to “stay in line”, “don’t talk… everyone needs to be quiet”, and “let’s all hold hands”.