Being Great At Your Job Means Nothing: Why Do Recruiters Seek Technical Skills and Hiring Managers Concentrate on Personality and Charm

 

Being Great At Your Job Means Nothing:

Why Do Recruiters Seek Technical Skills and Hiring Managers Concentrate on Personality and Charm

Why are the most qualified candidates often the first ones rejected?

In Being Great At Your Job Means Nothing, tech veteran D.T. Crawford pulls back the curtain on the "invisible machinery" of modern hiring. Through the eyes of Dorian Caldwell and a collection of raw, real-world stories, this book exposes a system that values optics over outcomes and "culture fit" over actual capability.

From the high-speed filter of Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to the disconnect between recruiters seeking keywords and managers seeking "vibes," Crawford reveals why meritocracy is often a myth. But this isn't just an exposé—it’s a roadmap for reform.

Discover the ARC Theory (Adaptability, Rigor, and Contribution), a revolutionary human-centered approach to hiring that replaces checkboxes with conversations and mirrors with windows. Whether you are a jobseeker tired of being "algorithmically ignored" or a leader ready to build a team based on true potential, this book is a call to reclaim dignity in the workplace.

It’s time to stop auditing for compliance and start hiring for character.

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The Canine Intervention

 

The Canine Intervention

by Bill Pennabaker

A self-described non-dog-lover has his life changed forever when he meets a mysterious and her special dog.

“Even if you don’t like dogs you may like this story. If you do like dogs you’ll LOVE this story.

The Canine Intervention: “Because life can change in an instant.”

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Esmerelda's Triumph

 

Esmerelda's Triumph

        Esmerelda, a lonely elf maid seeks to rule her own destiny in spite of a king, a wily gnome wizard, some gnolls, a dragon and worst of all, her own devilish sister or forfeit life's game. She hides in a dreary waste called the Black Moor partly due to her own shyness and partly because of the king who hunts all practitioners of magic. He has blamed the use of magic for a drought that plagues his kingdom. Esmerelda has been taught some magic by her adopted mother making her a novice and a target of the king.

Amid all this, she naturally longs for love and dreams of a childhood crush who will come and defeat the king and whisk her away to his castle. In spite of her shyness, she finally, makes the decision to take matters into her own hands and seek out her own destiny.

An obstacle, a ghost from her past long thought to be dead, has arisen from its grave to haunt her and crush what remains of her self-confidence. A clan of vicious gnolls complicates her task and have brought a dwarf-sized bundle of trouble who knows the ghost.

A pushy gnome and a scaly lizard arrive to offer her hope, but at a high price. To mitigate the cost, she commits to a brazen but risky endeavor that could prove to be fatal.

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ELEVEN ELEMENTS BOOK ONE HEALING WATERS:

   

ELEVEN ELEMENTS BOOK ONE HEALING WATERS:

Science Fiction Thriller Suspense Novel:

What If Humanity’s Peaceful Future Already Exists—But Is About to Be Erased?
At a time when war, division, and environmental crises dominate headlines, Eleven Elements: Book One – Healing Waters imagines a radically different future—one where humanity has overcome conflict and built a peaceful global society.

Set in the 26th century, the novel follows Commander Maxilon Renner and a team of time travelers sent back 500 years to protect a manuscript believed to have shaped humanity’s future. But when the mission fails, operatives are lost, Renner suffers partial amnesia, the author disappears and the manuscript vanishes—threatening to erase their utopian world from existence.

The lost document, The Manifesto of Eleven Elements, contains ideas that ultimately guide humanity toward environmental stewardship, global cooperation, and lasting peace.
Early reviews have praised the novel’s ambitious vision and philosophical depth.

⭐Readers’ Favorite calls it “a brilliant start to an epic sci-fi saga.” (Five - 5-star Reviews)
📚 BlueInk Review describes it as “both exciting and intellectually stimulating.”
📰 Kirkus Reviews calls it “plans for a better Earth packaged as a time-travel SF thriller.”

Beyond its time-travel premise, Eleven Elements explores broader questions about humanity’s trajectory. Can civilization consciously choose cooperation over conflict? Are lasting peace and environmental balance truly impossible—or have people simply stopped imagining them?

The book is the first installment in Joshi’s planned seven-volume Eleven Elements saga, a speculative series examining how human decisions shape the long-term destiny of civilization.
For readers drawn to science fiction that combines philosophical inquiry with high-concept storytelling, Eleven Elements: Book One – Healing Waters is a thrilling sci-fi adventure that dares to imagine lasting peace.

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Clavius Deep: Time travel's secret: Aliens feed on human ecstacy in a lunar war across centuries

  

Clavius Deep: Time travel's secret:

Aliens feed on human ecstacy in a lunar war across centuries

A top-secret lunar base far beneath Crater Clavius serves as a hub for time travel agents who repair Earth's timelines to prevent civilization's self-destruction. Time travel agents discover a cosmic secret: invisible extraterrestrial beings called the Ezuoia are connected in real time to human male brains. The Ezuoia turn men into sexual slaves, siphoning the pleasure of orgasmic release. The narrative explores the intersection of time travel, male sexual identity, and a burgeoning lunar religious cult whose violence threatens the stability of the base. This all culminates in cycles of political intrigue, betrayal, repeating time loops, and the inevitable flow of altered fates across multiple centuries. A very wild ride not soon to be forgotten!

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Generation VI: The Underworld

His mother’s dying wish is impossible: “Find me.” 

Leo Maquari never really believed Prometheus brought civilization back from the brink of extinction. But when his mother passes, restless dreams plague him, warning him of the torments that await her if he can’t bring her spirit peace. Guided by visions he’s long denied, he descends into the Underworld, where primordial monsters roam, deceased relatives live, and long-buried secrets come to light. But the deeper Leo travels, the clearer it becomes that his greatest trial is not death itself, but what awaits him on the surface.

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Generation VI: The Underworld

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Together to the End: A Psychological Sci-Fi Horror Novella

  

Together to the End:

A Psychological Sci-Fi Horror Novella 

A silent ship drifting in deep space.
A mission that should have been simple.

A recovery team boards a research vessel lost in the void to retrieve a classified relic. The ship is dark, abandoned, and far from any known route.

At first, it seems like a routine operation.

But the deeper the team moves into the vessel, the more things begin to unravel.

Systems fail.
Strange recordings surface.
Memories begin to fracture.

Something aboard the Harrow is still alive.

And it remembers them.

Together to the End is a psychological science fiction horror novella about memory, loyalty, and the terrifying cost of uncovering the truth.

Perfect for readers who enjoy:

• Deep space horror
• Cosmic and eldritch mysteries
• Psychological sci-fi thrillers
• Stories like Event Horizon, Dead Space, and Black Mirror

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