Fredia Woolf, Author At The Nonprofit Recruiter - Mission Connected

Neuroscience and Performance Reviews

by Fredia Woolf | Oct 20, 2009 | Advice, Recruiters

Thirty thousand neuroscientists descended on Chicago this weekend, spreading across the city like a neural network, to connect, spark ideas and exchange information. One of them mentioned to me how morale in her department at a prestigious university hit an all-time...

The Magic of Teams

by Fredia Woolf | Oct 13, 2009 | Recruiters

To misquote Tolstoy, “Happy teams are all alike; every unhappy team is unhappy in its own way.” When you look at your own organization, what do you see? The way people work together contributes enormously to job performance, engagement and satisfaction. It affects...

Do you have a world-class human capital management system?

by Fredia Woolf | Oct 6, 2009 | Recruiters

Perhaps you do not run a huge, sophisticated organization with department heads and divisions for every function. Or perhaps you do. Either way, you can probably do more to get the best from your people, aka human capital, and thus support your Employer Brand. Take...

What is your Employer Brand?

by Fredia Woolf | Sep 29, 2009 | Recruiters

A key position in your organization needs to be filled, and you need to hire someone. What is the first thing you do? Panic? Where on earth will you find the right person with the right skills who is the right fit? Feel complacent? Maybe you figure there are so many...

A New Model for Your Job Search – Part 5: Research

by Fredia Woolf | Sep 15, 2009 | Advice, Job Seekers

Another critical “Re” you need to master to conduct a successful job search is Research. With the internet, it has never been easier to find information about people and organizations, but that in itself can be problematic because people are often intimidated into...

A New Model For Your Job Search – Part 4: Relationships

by Fredia Woolf | Sep 8, 2009 | Advice, Job Seekers

A New Model for Your Job Search – Part 4: Relationships We have seen how by focusing on keeping yourself Resilient and by creating a Resume that markets your accomplishments, you are creating the conditions for achieving a successful Result in your job search....

A New Model for your Job Search -Part 3: Resilience

by Fredia Woolf | Sep 1, 2009 | Advice, Job Seekers

Concentrating your attention to the four “Re’s” that you can influence is more likely to lead to a productive job search than vainly focusing on the Result. In the last post, we discussed how to think about your Resumé, and today, we look at another critical factor...

A New Model for your Job Search – Part 2: Resumé

by Fredia Woolf | Aug 25, 2009 | Advice, Job Seekers

Last time, we talked about refocusing your job search energies from the Result, which is beyond your control, to the other four “Re’s” that you can do something about. Today let’s look at the first “Re”, your resumé. Isn’t it interesting that the rich and varied...

A New Model for Your Job Search – Part 1: Results

by Fredia Woolf | Aug 15, 2009 | Advice, Job Seekers

Searching for work can be tedious and stressful in the best of times. While there are those lucky few who somehow always seem to find themselves in the right place at the right time, there are the rest of us who have a lot of heavy lifting to do before we land any job...

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