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About Rusty Rueff

Rusty Rueff, author of purposed worKING. Rusty Rueff is the former Chairman Emeritus of The GRAMMY Foundation in Los Angeles. He most recently completed the successful 16 month leadership role as Coordinating National Co-Chair for Technology for Obama (T4O) for the reelection of President Obama and ten-years of Board service and President of the Board of Trustees of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Corporately, most recently Rueff was the Chief Executive Officer at SNOCAP, Inc. until the acquisition of the company by imeem, Inc. in April 2008. Before joining SNOCAP in 2005, he was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Electronic Arts (EA) from 1998 until 2005. He was also with the PepsiCo companies for more than ten years, with the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies for two years, and in commercial radio as an on-air personality for six years. Rusty holds an M.S. in counseling and a B.A. in radio and television from Purdue University. In 2003 he was named a distinguished Purdue alumnus, and he and his wife, Patti, are the named benefactors of Purdue’s Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts. He is a corporate director of Glassdoor.com and runcoach. He is the co-founder and Executive Committee Member of T4A.org, serves on the Founding Circle of The Centrist Project and a founding Board Member of The GRAMMY Music Education Coalition. He is also the co-author of the book Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business. Rusty and his wife, Patti, reside in Hillsborough, CA and Charlestown, R.I.

day 3K118: Ghosting

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“Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God is indeed God. He is the faithful God who keeps his covenant for a thousand generations and lavishes his unfailing love on those who love him and obey his commands.”

Over the past few years we’ve learned the term, “Ghosting” It’s a digital term that means to just not get back to someone or leave them hanging indefinitely.  It is happening now more than ever.  Job candidates just don’t show up and some don’t even report to work after they are hired and are never to be heard from again.  It seems really rude doesn’t it?  And in fact in a Indeed’s survey they did last year it showed that 46% of those seeking a job just didn’t show up for the interviews.  Well, before we go and put all the blame on the employees let’s recognize that employers have been ghosting job candidates for years and years.  To the tune of 77% of job seekers say that at one time or another they had made contact with an employer, even interviewed with them, and then never heard another word.  If we are really honest about it, we should admit it happens all the time. It might be worth taking a look at whether or not those resumes and applications the company received ever got a response. And while it seems unthinkable, double checking that everyone who interviewed (through a recruiter or internally – text interviews, phone interviews, live interviews all) got a proper response and close off.  We don’t want to be contributing to a 77% no response problem.

Are we known as “Ghosters”?  Do we have emails in our inbox right now that have not been responded to, but need to be?  Do we close the loop with people?  Do we leave people hanging when the expect us to respond?  Our God never ghosts us.  He is always there for us and that should be enough for us to be sure that we try and live up to His ways as an example of who He is.

Reference: Deuteronomy 7:9 (New Living Translation)