Any person who visits an employment website should be treated with respect, as a minimum, and delighted, as an objective. Here are 17 points that can lead to a star candidate experience.
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Self proclaimed HR thought leaders tend to be vacuous morons, incapable of sustained thought. There’s a code that I saw somewhere that says you can’t be one unless someone else says you are (without being asked to). Even that’s not good enough, really. The bluntest knife in the box has a mom who thinks he’s got HR Thought Leadership potential. When he walks up to you and introduces himself as a HR thought leader, hang on to your wallet.
When job hunters are given the opportunity to examine endless opportunities, what do you think they do? Truth is that after about a dozen thorough readings of job ads, they revert to skimming. The web actively encourages this approach…it’s a skimming medium. Following a skimming phase, the job hunter reverts to reviewing opportunities briefly and punching a resume button in response. It’s extremely Pavlovian.
The latest chapter in the Dot Jobs saga is being written, and every single "we're right and they're wrong argument" resembles a sequel to Dumb and Dumber. Perhaps the guilty parties could take a page from the internet values that are shaping organization design and culture that Jay Cross champions this week in his article? [...]
How long has the debate about the definition of talent community been raging? Here’s a piece from a decade ago that seems to continue to make sense today.
This week, we’re running two pieces from the vaults published exactly 10 years ago. What’s most astonishing is that the issues don’t appear to have changed.
There is a subset of the Slow Movement called Slow Work. Slow work is about finding dignity in work. It’s not about fast bucks and fancy positions.
In this week's HRExaminer Magazine we feature three posts from our archives and provide some present day context and questions to get you thinking about your HR plans for 2011. Plus, Editorial Advisory Board Contributor Heather Bussing weighs in on Social Media Policies and we introduce you to iTalent. Feature ~ Look Back To See [...]
Today, we’re continuing our series that we started Monday Looking Back to See Forward. You can catch up on our two posts here with Looking Back and People Not Candidates. What’s the state of innovation in HR and Talent Management today? In May 2001 John wrote the article below Light Bulb Not Candle and made [...]
Continuing our series this week in looking back we turn to the systems and tools of recruiting. What progress have we made in our industry since 2002 when this post on ATS vs. recruiting software was first published? ATS systems still abound and new web-based tools have emerged. But have we progressed? Perhaps adaptations like [...]
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