Katrina's Letter Of The Week

By Katrina Kibben

Every week, I'll write you a letter. A letter about anything, really. My goal is just to make you think.

Then, I handpick 3 ideas and posts you'll love (and learn from).

Previous issues

Two years for Three Ears

#94 Feb 21, 2020

Why you can't 100% automate recruiting

#93 Feb 14, 2020

Different isn't the enemy

#92 Feb 7, 2020

#91

Jan 31, 2020

They: A pronoun and a feeling – "That's the most photographed thing in this entire restaurant," the owner whispered to me as I stood
#90

Jan 24, 2020

Stage 4 cancer and connections – I'm friends with a firefighter who shared the concept of "glass babies" with me this week. The idea i
#89

Jan 17, 2020

The hardest question I've ever been asked – This week I woke up to a text from a friend. Her son is gay, 15, and living in a midwestern suburb. I
#88

Jan 10, 2020

Word of The Year (I'm Back!) – As a self-proclaimed self-help junkie (see our last letter of 2019), I also set "new year, new me" re
#87

Dec 6, 2019

Read this if you're feeling stuck – Driving home from a meeting this week, I caught myself thinking, "what is good enough?" That's not a
#86

Nov 22, 2019

A lesson on verbal abuse and bad bosses – I've always wondered what people like you would think if you knew I started Three Ears Media in a rag
#85

Nov 15, 2019

The (PTO) time of your life – I saw tweets circulating this week about a woman who was retiring with over 250 hours of PTO. The mes
#84

Nov 8, 2019

Always one "I love you" short – "Jim, how many jumping jacks are we doing today?" "100," he muttered with signature sarcasm and a gri
#83

Nov 1, 2019

A pep talk and a dream that didn't come true. – My dream was to go to Syracuse and be a writer. See, my mom went to Syracuse for an MBA when I was in
#82

Oct 25, 2019

Candidate experiences and your first flight – Do you remember your first flight? I do. I was 16, and we flew from Virginia to Florida for a trip to
#81

Oct 18, 2019

A text from Afghanistan. Now, this. – I get the same reaction every time I mention that I moved almost every year as a kid: "Isn't that so
#80

Oct 11, 2019

They won't hire people like me – I've been laid off twice in my career. The first time was about two years after I graduated from coll
#79

Oct 4, 2019

Speaking the same language... – People take pride in work. A piece of that is the label we get for a job well done - the job title. O
#78

Sep 27, 2019

It's always You vs You – I saw an Instagram post this week that said, "don't compare yourself with anyone but you 5 years ago
#77

Sep 20, 2019

Stolen stories, stolen time – I promise this is not a rant about people copying each other's work. I spent a morning this week piss
#76

Sep 13, 2019

You Need A Feel Good Folder – This week was full of depression triggers for me: Suicide Awareness Day, September 11th, and even the
#75

Sep 6, 2019

How did you end up in recruiting? – My favorite thing about social media is that we get the chance to meet people we never would. While t

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