Beth's blog

My communication channels (email, Facebook, Linked In, etc) have been flooded lately with articles on fake candidates, fake job ads, fake resumes, A.I. conducting interviews on behalf of companies, and most recently, A.I. conducting interviews on behalf of candidates....

I met with one of my favorite clients a few weeks back. He has semi-retired, and he is now President Emeritus at his current bank. I adore this man, even though it has been about 15 years since we worked together. I asked him what he attributed to his success. He...

I had a client reach out to me and tell me that his business is doing well, with the exception of one department. That department had a revolving door of people. “I walk in there and don’t know anyone. Then 2 months later, I walk in there and again don’t know anyone.”...

Back in my restaurant days, a mentor of mine gave me a copy of Popes: A guide for Service Management. It was written by a man named H.H. Pope for his restaurant company, and it was a set of 21 rules for how to run a restaurant. Learning Popes was a game changer. We...

I met with a man a few weeks back who had seen me speak at a meeting. His name is Gary Bren, and he is the Managing Partner of Turner Technologies, out of Omaha, Nebraska. He wanted me to teach his directors how to run a hiring process, and he was very proud of his...

At A-list Interviews, we love our clients.  We value them, trust them and consider ourselves true partners in helping them hire the right people to run their organizations.  More importantly, we believe that working in a job you love truly changes your life, and...

My daughter, Katy, graduated from college with a Nursing Degree in 2023. She applied for over 100 jobs that spring/summer in order to land her dream job at a hospital in the Dallas area. She loves her job as an award-winning post-partum nurse, and in July of this...

A few weeks back on a Monday morning, my alarm screamed at me. Too early, truth be told. The weather was cold, the sky dark, and all I wanted to do was turn over and go back to sleep. I had a long day ahead of me, so I sighed loudly and rolled out of bed. I dragged...

I had a wonderful conversation with a former client yesterday, who is looking for a very specific person to fill a very specific position, and he asked me what I thought about the labor market. Here are my thoughts: Everywhere you look there is a report of more...

Last week, I was scheduled to present to a group of business owners in Omaha, Nebraska. I got on the plane on Tuesday on time, and we took off. On the 1 hour flight to Omaha, we got ½ way there and turned around, because a woman on the plane had a medical emergency....