Recruiting and Astrology ?

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to dine in Athens in the company the HR director of one of the larger Greek Technology companies. She confided she planned to leave, and was considering other employment alternatives. The reason behind her decision to leave was a peculiar request from an executive belonging to the company they just merged with.

This senior director pointed to the staple of CV's of Senior SW Developers she was reviewing on her desk, requesting her to select only people with Virgo and Leo zodiac signs so he could "achieve team coherence". I thought she was joking, but the look in her eyes confirmed this effectively happened. 

5 years in this business and I assumed to have heard and seen it all. Obviously I did not.

On Talent and the difference between Recruiters and Search Consultants

In 1964 Justice Potter Stewart tried to explain "hard-core" pornography, or what is obscene, by saying, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced . . . but I know it when I see it . . . This quote, and the intent behind it, is well known as summarizing the irony and difficulty in trying to define obscenity. For at least fifty years, the Supreme Court has been struggling with defining what speech is "obscene".

Click to read more ...