Top 100 v1.64 Josh Bersin Josh Bersin is living proof that you can create influence from whole cloth. In seven and a half years, his eponymous company, Bersin and Associates, has come from nowhere to extraordinary industry prominence. His small team is increasingly responsible for the way that HR sees itself. In 2001, with 20 [...]
April 13, 2010 HRExaminer v1.14 HRNX from HR Integrations | Feature Review New software, systems and the internet have done much to unlock isolated data islands in HR departments. While disparate HR information is scattered across corporate and HR databases, outsourced tools and web based information resources, the systems still don’t talk to each other. [...]
Before we get to the winners I want to mention that the regular weekly HRExaminer will publish next Tuesday, April 13, 2010. HRExaminer’s Blank Slate Contest Winners On January 27, the day that the revolutionary iPad was announced, the HRExaminer began its “Blank Slate” challenge. The first contest anywhere to offer an iPad as a [...]
Top 100 v1.63 RD Whitney Grit, determination and a smile go a long way towards building sustained influence. The intellects all assume that influence and smarts are somehow correlated. The truth is that it’s hard to trust someone who is busy being smart. Influence has more to do with reliability and predictability than it has [...]
April 2, 2010 HRExaminer v1.13 HireVue | Review Today, I conducted yet another interview on Skype. I routinely use videoconferencing in either Skype or Google to do business outside of domestic American borders. I have not been a fan of the idea that video interview companies were going to be able to add value in [...]
At the heart of good recruiting, retention based on personal desire, great customer relationships, solid team work, clear delivery of results and, increasingly, any business success, is the mastery of relationship management. Relationships are hard to develop in volume and many people take statistical shortcuts in processes that develop relationships based on the luck of [...]
Top 100 v1.62: Ryan Johnson The process of trying to identify patterns of influence in the HR-Recruiting Industry has been revealing. The domain is composed of a number of subordinate silos and the totality is only loosely tied together. If you ask a Recruiter who Jay Cross or Ann Bares are, you’ll draw blank stares. [...]
March 26, 2010 HRExaminer v1.12 Five Scenarios: X Presentation Recap | Feature Disruption is what happens when someone figures out a new way to arrive at the conclusion you got to the old way. This is the theme we explored in our Recruiting Disruption session at ERE Expo in San Diego last week. This year’s [...]
Top 100 v1.61: ERE Expo – Center of Influence Influence is hard to distinguish from celebrity. Being well known is one of the components of influence. (It’s almost impossible to be influential if no one knows who you are.) We are in the age of the democratizion of celebrity, the post-privacy world. People rise to [...]
March 19, 2010 HRExaminer v1.11 What’s the Big idea We’re taking a one-week hiatus from HRExaminer’s normal weekly format. While I was away in San Diego attending the spring ERE Expo I thought it would make sense to feature a selection of the Blank Slate Challenge entries we received. We’ll be selecting the winners soon [...]
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