The Interview Tactics that Scare Off Candidates

Employers should also be careful with multiple interviewers and be sure to let the candidate speak, says George A. Santino, author of Get Back Up: From the Streets to Microsoft Suites.  “With multiple interviews there needs to be coordination between them,” says Santino. “Few things can turn a candidate off more than interviewing with five [...]

2017-03-04T14:46:03-08:00November 4th, 2016|Author News|Comments Off on The Interview Tactics that Scare Off Candidates

The Cost of Work/Life Balance

I’ve been hearing a lot about work/life balance these days from corporations and politicians. It seems that everyone wants to talk about how you can be successful at work and have a life too. In my career that was never the case. I started at Microsoft in 1991 at the ripe old age of 35. [...]

2016-11-04T14:33:43-07:00November 4th, 2016|Author News|Comments Off on The Cost of Work/Life Balance

7 Steps To Landing (And Keeping) A New Job

Guest blogger George A. Santino was born into a family living in poverty in Philadelphia’s violent Tasker Street Projects. He was subjected to his alcoholic father’s fits of temper as he tried to earn money for himself by selling tomatoes from the back of a truck. A freak injury caused him to be discharged from the [...]

2017-03-04T14:46:03-08:00November 4th, 2016|Author News|Comments Off on 7 Steps To Landing (And Keeping) A New Job

Five Steps to Landing and Keeping That New Job

In his book, Get Back Up – From the Streets to the Microsoft Suites George A. Santino shares his rare humor and the story of his rise from humble beginnings through a series of adventures—opening a sports bar with no walls, cursing out a drill sergeant, battling a hiring manager to get a job offer that he intends to [...]

2017-03-04T14:46:03-08:00November 4th, 2016|Author News|Comments Off on Five Steps to Landing and Keeping That New Job

How street smarts and hard work pay off

George Santino musician and author of Get Back Up: From the Streets to Microsoft Suites, shares with us his story and how he used his street smarts and hard work to maneuver through multiple career changes to eventually end up as a Microsoft partner. George pulls from his experiences at Microsoft to give us keys [...]

2017-03-04T14:46:03-08:00August 19th, 2016|Author News|Comments Off on How street smarts and hard work pay off

Why Not You?

After writing a book titled Get Back Up: From the Streets to Microsoft Suites, I was given the opportunity to pen several byline articles and blogs. There’s a common thread in everything I write, and it is that you are in charge of your own destiny. That is, in spite of what you’re being told [...]

2017-03-04T14:46:03-08:00August 4th, 2016|Author News|Comments Off on Why Not You?

Microsoft Partner Reveals His Secrets to Success

George A Santino didn’t plan on being a writer. Truth be told, he didn’t plan on being a fast food manager, real estate investor, liquor salesman or recording artist either. The idea that he’d spend the bulk of his career at Microsoft  — starting as a entry level lab engineer and retiring twenty years later [...]

2016-08-02T12:04:07-07:00August 2nd, 2016|Author News|Comments Off on Microsoft Partner Reveals His Secrets to Success

Are You a Victim?

If you listen to politicians from both major political parties these days, we’re all victims. They say that the system is rigged and the deck is stacked against us. They tell us that we don’t stand a chance of getting ahead in life or being truly successful unless (of course) we vote for them. Do [...]

2016-07-05T13:21:03-07:00July 5th, 2016|Author News|Comments Off on Are You a Victim?

Knocked Down? This Way Up!

I suppose there are some people out there who never have any challenges beyond the tragedy of a facial zit.  But I think they’re about as rare as a unicorn.  For the rest of us, which is basically everyone, we take our share of falls.  Yes, some seem to get more than their share of [...]

2016-06-20T16:29:02-07:00June 20th, 2016|Author News|Comments Off on Knocked Down? This Way Up!
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