Are you ready for this month’s roundup? have gathered this wonderful and useful information, aimed specifically towards you guys – the people who are in charge of making changes. Change management is very difficult. The familiar saying, “Change is easy — you go first” reflects the ambiguous feeling most of us have when it comes to actually doing it. It’s also the sentiment that explains why over 75% of culture-change efforts fail. Points along an Entrepreneur’s Journey to Change Management. When great beginnings have poor endings, change pioneers are left disappointed. MORE

Creating a plan for going out on the networking field is tough, yet doable. For some recruiters, however, the networking portion itself doesn’t always come as second nature. To put candidates at ease to engage with them means emitting that same calm and cool. Do that, and you’ve already taken care of half of the recruiting work. Here’s how. Treat candidates as thought leaders. In a word: flattery. MORE

This post brought to you by National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation. The content and opinions expressed below are that of Evil HR Lady. In today’s helicoptery parenting world, and crazy college admissions, parents often want to do what’s best for their children’s futures. So, we shuttle them to activities and pay to send them on service trips to South America so that they can have cool volunteer work listed on their college applications. There’s no time for a job as a waitress! That won’t help with their future life! Hogwash. Work in a restaurant? MORE

With hundreds of thousands of people expected, hundreds of parties, sessions and meeting invites, Dreamforce can be overwhelming for even the most seasoned conference attendee. We’ve compiled a few of the most important mistakes to avoid this year at Dreamforce, especially if you’ve never attended an event of its scale before. You don’t have to commit to everything and everyone. MORE

Are you ready for this month’s roundup? have gathered this wonderful and useful information, aimed specifically towards you guys – the people who are in charge of making changes. Change management is very difficult. The familiar saying, “Change is easy — you go first” reflects the ambiguous feeling most of us have when it comes to actually doing it. It’s also the sentiment that explains why over 75% of culture-change efforts fail. Points along an Entrepreneur’s Journey to Change Management. When great beginnings have poor endings, change pioneers are left disappointed. MORE

This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. This one is truly no work and no school. If you have a work question, you can email it to me or post it in the work-related open thread on Fridays.). Book Recommendation of the Week: The Namesake , by Jhumpa Lahiri. This is from the author of Interpreter of Maldies , which won a Pulitzer, but I will boldly assert that this one is better. Also, that was short stories and this is a novel, and in a literary street fight, the novel will always win.). open threads MORE