Yeah, and OJ wasn’t convicted of butchering his wife and her friend. Doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Where there’s smoke there’s fire. I guess his claim that there was nothing wrong with sharing his bed with a young boy was ok…hey he’s Michael Jackson, right?

This is a perfect example of what is WRONG in the majority of hiring decisions in the majority of HR departments in the majority of companies in the US:

1) people with very little real-world LIFE experience are put into HR

Sorry ’bout that… but to continue:

2) People are put into HR when they are not trained to read resumes, not trained to truly read cover letters and, sometimes, just cannot actually read well enough to do the job. These folks are often so used to being electronically entertained that they cannot must enough attention span to actually focus on anyone but themselves for more than a few seconds, at best.

3) People are put into HR who have no training on how to conduct an interview. It is a skill, not something you are necessarily born with.

4) Hiring managers or others with final say in hiring decisions are also not trained how to truly read a cover letter, what to look for, how to read a resume, what to ask more about, or how to conduct an interview to glean uselful information as opposed to just gaining more information.

People are put into HR for all sorts of reasons, and as you can see by reading the story on the “death of cover letters”, most of them don’t know their a@@ from their elbows.

Go to work for a company that has a culture of building up WITH it’s people, not ON TOP of them.

MJ was a Molester just imagine if MJ had converted and become a Christian Catholic Priest - being black wouldn’t persecute him - being a molester did NOT persecute him - but boy WOW! that sure would have!! My opinion Mozart & Kennedy were far more greater in personna & moral character!

To get back on topic, just because a company calls one of it’s employees a recruiter doesn’t really make her one. I could call myself a supermodel, but that doesn’t make it so.

“Recruiters” know how to locate, identify, qualify, interview and seal the deal with top candidates.

Successful companies know it and they know the health of their balance sheet starts in HR.

Michael Jackson was not just a singer, he was truly an entertainer and possessed many artful creative gifts.

We are all built differently, with different gifts, different abilities and different musical tastes and just because one appreciate Mozart more than Michael Jackson doesn’t make one anymore sophisticated than the next person, that belief is just foolishness of the thinking of man who is very flawed.

Just because one can’t appreciate someone else’s gift(s), talents or style whatever it may be, it is pretty ignorant if you ask me, to sit back and behave as though they are so more above one who appreciates a musical style that is different from theirs.

I also think that it is just as ridiculous to feel that just because a person is at work or hold the title of recruiter, that it is expected that that person not display that he/she is a compassionate human being and for her compassion is considered STUPID by some? Boy, how we sometimes think of ourselves so much higher and more than we really are.

This reminds me once when I was in a check out line, the cashier had just received news that her mother had died, she freaked out at the register and their were customers who was actually very upset that she broke down and stopped working even after learning her mother had passed. It took everything in me to keep from giving these people a good tongue-lashing. The shock to me is that it wasn’t just one person who reacted angrily at this cashier but several customers in line did not find it excusable that this cashier’s line was held up because of the awful news that she had just received. Personally, I find something horribly lacking in such people that is ungodly like along with being sick and evil.

Regarding entertainers, I myself can’t grasp people fainting over another human being, standing in front of their houses i.e. Elvis, Michael Jackson, etc, nor do I understand those bus tours to see famous people mansions. None of those things are things that I care to do or believe in participating in but how is it any different than what any other person idolize apart from God?

It was devastating to some of us learn that Michael Jackson died suddenly. Some of us shed a few tears. I know that I did.

I also shed tears for Farrah Fawcett upon learning that her expected death had arrived and was grieved by her unwillingness to be ready for death.

For some of us, even though we did not know Michael Jackson personally, we grew up with him and loved him from the time he was just that beautiful gifted little boy. We saw him grow up. We witnessed the obvious emotional pain brought on in his childhood that hunted him until his death. Many of us wished we could take that pain away because of the compassion that we feel for others who are in emotional pain.

We also saw how he was able to make us forgot about his pain just as he seemed to do once he began to entertain us on stage. His gift brought us joy in spite of everything else, which was proof of the magnificent gift that he had and will live on.

Personally, I would question the common sense of someone who was looking for employment such as this writer who would dare write a piece that the entire world could see that truly insult masses because they were in shock because of the sudden death of Michael Jackson. It is like being shocked over someone being a compassionate feeling human being.

D. Walker, please get a grip.

This article was about somebody trying to get a job - not about some entertainer you never met, didn’t know, didn’t know you, and didn’t have a relationship with!!

For crying out loud.

This is a business blog, not the lonely hearts club for people without a life.

Today in the job market it is working like this - people are not being hired for their intelligence, effeciency, capabilities and expertise! They are being hired because they are a sexy, blond, bombshell bimbo with big boobs but without a brain in their head! The employers would rather have someone look good out front for 30 days (because that is all the longer they last because they can’t do the job), and then spend all that time and energy starting over again with the interviewing process, etc. Of course this relates to who is hiring the females, then it comes to the guys! They are getting hired if you can talk the talk, look the part, and are of the same age as the interviewer, if male, or good looking and flirty if the interviewer is female. The bimbo’s haven’t been around long enuf to make a worthwhile judgment of what makes a good employee, because anyone that breaks down during an interview over the death of Michael Jackson needs to sit back, get someone else to do that job, go home, and lose it at home - not on the job. Men are not going to hire any other male they think might be smarter than they are (could go for their job), and the bimbo’s will hire what they are comfortable being around (another bimbo), but anyone professional, intelligent, older or mature no matter how capable, doesn’t have a prayer! This world really is in trouble!

D Walker: “For some of us, even though we did not know Michael Jackson personally, we grew up with him and loved him from the time he was just that beautiful gifted little boy.”

You mean back when he was still black?

Uhh… Jocko?