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Some hiring practices should simply be illegal.

Not “discouraged.”
Not “best practice.”
Illegal.

Here are a few that need to go:

💡 Posting ghost jobs
↳ Roles that exist only on paper

💡 Requiring unpaid work
↳ Projects, presentations and case studies

💡 Age discrimination in hiring
↳ Experience and talent have no expiration date

💡 Posting jobs without a salary range
↳ Transparency matters

💡 Reposting the same job while rejecting qualified applicants
↳ Frustrating and misleading

💡 Demanding “entry-level” candidates with 5+ years of experience
↳ Stop wasting everyone’s time

If we want better workplaces, we need better hiring standards.

Transparency, fairness, and respect for candidates shouldn’t be optional.

➡️ What would you add to this list?

🍀 Please share to promote fair hiring practices

Nothing meaningful is wasted.

Every outcome either redirects you, protects you, or teaches you something you needed to see.

This was 2012. Shirt was $2.99, pants were $5.99 - both from thrift stores. Tie was my dads. Shoes were from an old shoe shine shop. Sometimes people leave their shoes and they sell them cheap, Allen Edmonds for $39.00. Bag was from the clearance rack at J. Crew “factory”

I didn’t have much. But, I had all I needed to be the best mail room kid in NYC.

My pops used to tell me that it didn’t matter what I did, as long as I tried to be the 1% in that “thing” then people would recognize.

I had never been to NYC before, the largest building in my town was like 7 stories.

Couldn't afford to live in the city so we
decided to rent a 350 square foot 3rd story walk up in Bloomfield, NJ - I told people Montclair 😉

None of the windows really closed.

Washer was in the basement, was coin operated and rarely worked.

Bathroom was in the kitchen, yea odd - not sure about that.

Bedroom door wouldn't shut because the bed took up 80% of the room.

Heat came from the downstairs unit, floors got warm but never got above like 62 degrees.

Car was a 1997 Avalon with no muffler, loud as heck and not on purpose.

But, it is where we had our START.

It wasn't glamorous but it is what we had and for a kid without a degree, I went for it and simply tried to be the best.

My first 3 hours of work each day paid for my transit into the city, $28 for those hours.

Patterson 72 Line
Newark
Path
WTC
Walk

Here are some of the things I did that took me from living in that small tiny apartment to getting where I am today👇

1 - Never stop telling people hi, you are one head nod away from your entire life changing

2 - Study your craft like crazy, but also know everything about your client or icp (get in their world and out of yours)

3 - Surround yourself with people WAY WAY smarter than you

4 - Be willing to relocate early in your career, we moved 6 times in 8 years

5 - Always have 2 people willing to hire you by next Friday

6 - Start creating content NOW, it will change your life - do double what you think is necessary

7 - Get a coach (If you can’t afford it, find a mentor or ask your company to pay for it)

8 - Your partner is your superpower, choose wisely here

9 - Get really really good at something, 10,000 hours (I’m feeling this now and it’s insane what happens)

10 - Celebrate your wins often, kudos folder

11 - Have fun, love people and laugh daily

Pretty cool to write this as I’m on stage today in California talking about my life and career, sheesh a lot can change in 14 years.

My two companies:

531social.com (GTM Social Selling)
Darrenmckee.co (Coaching, Training, Speaking, Brand)

Oh and I did find a sponsor for this event this week, it’s ME.

I’m representing my dang self.

And my posts make way more revenue than when I post about others even if they pay me. Just sayin.

Go be great.

Time to speak then surf.

San Diego is cool.

A big determinant of AI's job impact is driven by the lack of compute, especially for agentic work, which takes a lot of it. That makes AI expensive.

So companies will only want to burn compute on high-value tasks (eg coding), because, in other jobs, humans remain much cheaper. It is not uncommon for engineers who are really using AI to spend thousands of dollars a day tokens AI. That is not an expense you are going to be willing to take for many jobs out there. Prices will drop, but demand is still going up and supply is constrained.

Yes, this is the comparative advantage argument economists have been discussing for awhile, but it is coming true. There will not be enough compute for many years to automate many human jobs, even assuming AI can do that work and companies are willing to replace the people.

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Hard work doesn't burn people out.

Poor leadership does.

We used to have chair yoga sessions and 
stress management workshops at work.

The people who needed them most couldn't attend.
 
They were triple-booked in meetings.

That's not a wellness problem. 
That's a leadership problem.

A boss tells you to manage your stress.

A leader removes what's causing it.

Stop offering meditation apps while scheduling back-to-back meetings.

Stop promoting "work-life balance" while rewarding those who never log off.

Stop blaming people for burning out in systems designed to break them.

If your team is struggling, look for the real causes:

→ Unrealistic deadlines with no room to breathe
→ Back-to-back meetings with no time to think
→ Unclear priorities that change every week
→ Rewarding "always on" while preaching balance

If you're exhausted, you're not weak.

You're stuck in a broken system.

And you deserve leaders who fix it - not blame you for it.

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My son is home sick and asked me “Daddy, what do you do for work?”

Instead of telling him, I showed him!

I showed him some of my videos on YouTube, some of the work I’m doing with my consulting clients, and Analyst Builder.

He wanted to solve a problem on Analyst Builder so I walked him through it and after about 5 minutes he solved his very first problem!

He was smiling from ear to ear when he saw the confetti flying down.

He loves computers and I have a feeling he has a solid career ahead of him!

You don't know what you don't know.

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