A recent retiree, Benjamin Ruark has performed in solo or co-performed development of numerous assessments; training and quality needs audits; a wide array of training programs and seminar presentations; an equally wide variety of performance improvement projects in manufacturing, services, and software industries; and in redesign of operating layouts. He is an advocate of workplace research, especially wide scale adoption of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP).

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 ‘Create Your Own Job’ 101: A Last Hope for Desperate, Unemployed White Collar Professionals
by Ben Ruark - Sep, 2011
No panacea, here, after soul-searching and wrapping your mind around a new, harsher economic reality, you may be ripe for embracing one of life’s less-appetizing last-ditch efforts. While the allure of nailing down any job may tempt you to read further, know that life overall, and personal...
 
 White Collar Professionals Unemployed for 1 Year or More: Investigating Your Job Options
by Ben Ruark - Aug, 2011
If not encountered already, at some point in a protracted unemployment interlude we're forced to decide whether continuing a search for the same/similar position previously held is going to succeed in the near-future; or whether we're on a treadmill-to-nowhere: that we've crossed over some...
 
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