Peter Spellman

What Employers Want

MONDAY BYTES — November 30, 2015 I recently wrote a recommendation for a short-listed candidate being considered for a college teaching job. The search committee had sent a list of questions to the candidate's referees. The list included questions about the person's...

Your Manifesto?

MONDAY BYTES — August 17, 2015 Got a manifesto? The messages we tell ourselves are operating instructions for life. It's our unexamined self-talk that shapes our self esteem which in turn guides our behavior, for good or ill. So what would happen if we replaced the...