Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Week 10 International HRM

    I chose this option because I genuinely have a dream of going to every country in the world. Ideally, it would be somewhere I haven’t been. An important thing to factor is my wage will reflect this risk I’m taking if it’s an unsafe country, as well as being in an American wage. With this…

  • Week 9

    Based on the results of the three tests about stress and coping mechanisms, it’s not looking good chief. I do oftentimes feel stressed, but I honestly just don’t worry about it too much. In fact, despite all the difficulties in life I strongly believe that the only thing that really stresses me out are my…

  • Week 6: Work Training

    For my last job working at a college, the training was actually similar to previous places I’ve been. There was no training. I was thrown into the job and told to come up with my own projects to benefit the community and school as a whole. As long as I looked like I was preforming…

  • Effective & Ineffective Interviews

    I’ve had a lot of practice interviews, and just a few real ones. Oddly, the practice interviews came much after my time with the real interviews. A while back, I had one to see if I would be a good fit working for a college. While I was waiting, I noticed that there was a…

  • Week 4 Developing and Maintaining Job Descriptions

    The workplace is constantly changing and bringing in new challenges to each and every job. Especially in a business that is just starting out, they are constantly finding new areas to improve themselves in. This means that jobs people were originally hired for can morph and take on different responsibilities compared to where they started…

  • HR Practices and Future Management

    Recently I took a look at the top companies to work at for 2020. By that, it means the companies that were rated the highest by its own employees. NVIDIA – Management was great, and people are given a lot of responsibility. People mostly talked about how the management team at NVIDIA treated them, and…

  • Hello world!

    Welcome to blogs.oregonstate.edu. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

Got any book recommendations?