While I'd love to blame the sunny summer season for my lack of posting the past couple of months, it would be a lie. After all, I live in San Diego and we're pretty spoiled year-round with good weather. I've actually been working very hard in a couple of areas.

What you may have already noticed is my latest offering, Employer's Guide to Interviewing. This has been a time-intensive effort but one that I hope will benefit many of you. If you don't have a lot of experience interviewing … or lots of experience without succeeding in hiring that perfect candidate, then you should take a look at this. Not only do I give you detailed information on how to conduct interviews but I've included 750 interview questions in numerous areas and specialties. In addition, one of the bonuses takes you through the "art" of developing lots of interview questions just from a job description. I've added my own personal insights throughout the material to help you learn from my own experiences.

I've loved putting this website together and offering whatever help I can to those of you struggling to understand or manage HR in your companies. However, I also love getting involved face-to-face with small companies. Consulting directly with companies continues to help me grow, stay challenged, and better understand your business needs. In fact, you often see the results of this in my blog posts.

The past couple of months have been filled between writing the Employer's Guide to Interviewing and networking to build the consulting side of my business in the San Diego area. Although I'm not entirely limited to San Diego, the type of consulting I can do depends on location. Helping you set up your HR processes typically requires me to be at your office to do so (but I'm working on that!). However, troubleshooting employee issues can often be handled strictly via phone calls and that allows me to develop a client base beyond San Diego.

The diversification of my website, creating new products, and my consulting business offers me the variety I thrive on and keeps things interesting. But, it seems, I need to try much harder to keep a better balance between them!