Thought For The Day: ““Fall down seven times. Stand up eight”- Japanese proverb via Dennis Smith Splits.org Recruiters helping recruiters. 2 days old, still in beta, 2 sendouts in process. Bootstrapping the scrappy small business end of the industry. Jason Davis executes another brainstorm with Miles Jennings. Based on the use of the #splits hashtag. [...]
Thought For The Day: “Hire slowly. Fire quickly” – Zappos McKinsey: What Matters: Organization From well outside of the bounds of conventional HR comes this McKinsey package of articles about Talent Futures. They were, you’ll remember, the source of the original “War for Talent” meme. Of particular note: The new talent imperative and Netting young employees. Portrait [...]
Thought For The Day: The society is more bankrupt than the financial system. What battered newsrooms can learn from Stewart’s CNBC takedown1) Great research trumps good access to the powerful 2) The American public is mad as hell right now, so why isn’t the mainstream media? 3) Tear down this wall…of pretending that the media itself isn’t [...]
Thought For The Day: See the Sourcing Is Dead Debate on RBC A History of HR Standards Bookmark this set of articles. It’s the story of the effort to create an integrated standard for HR Systems interoperability. While the project made some headway, few people have a real stake in a positive outcome. The results, [...]
Thought For The Day: “HR People are Nomadic” – Heard on The Recruiting Animal Show The Apple Mafia Corporate culture can shape much more than the insides of the company. A look at Apple influence and the culture of other Silicon Valley giants. ShareThis is the next big data platform “If the current iteration of [...]
eHire (Feb 11, 2009) The PR reads: “One United Community. One Powerful Experience. Candidates and recruiters are now able to enjoy a universal networking and career-centric platform that is the technological adhesive for developing trusting relationships, saving valuable time, and advancing rewarding careers.” Huh? Technological adhesive? Super Glue for Jobs? “Can you help me? I [...]
Novotus I (Feb 09 2009) Mike Mayeux (MYU), CEO of Novotus may be best known for his magic feats of barbeque. In Texas, they do things big and Mayeux‘ portable kitchen is pure lone star. Happy to throw a party and happy to invite you, Mike Mayeux is the quintessential work hard-play hard entrepreneur. At the [...]
Entice Labs (Jan 30, 2009) This week, I had the good fortune to spend time with a number of CEOs in the Human Capital Industry. Deb McGrath, who runs HR.com, hosted a simultaneous event for the community that invests in the Human Capital Marketplace. More about the conference tomorrow. I spent about an hour with [...]
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