Seven years ago, this review appeared in the pages of the Electronic Recruiting News. It’s reprinted in honor of the final arrival of the movie. In the intervening years, some elements of the HR and Recruiting world have paid attention and begun to use metrics to figure out hiring problems. It’s not another exercise in [...]
Employment Law Blog Carnival with Heather Bussing This week we hosted the Employment Law Blog Carnival - a compilation of fourteen articles that answer questions like: Can you discipline someone (or be disciplined) for a Facebook post? Can you refuse to hire someone because she is pregnant? What should you think about when terminating an [...]
I don’t think much of best practices and big generalizations about our profession. Recruiting practices that work famously at Google are recipes for disaster in a factory near Macon, Ga. What works as personality assessment in Minneapolis is downright dumb in Baton Rouge.
This is a guest post from Ed Goodwin. Ed Goodwin is Managing Partner of Demand Facts Inc, a Massachusetts-based consulting practice he founded in 2000. Ed has over 30 years of hands-on experience providing marketing and customer research & analysis solutions for leading providers in several industries. During the past 10 years, Ed has specialized [...]
Welcome to the Employment Law Blog Carnival- a great collection of articles on the hottest issues in employment law from some really smart lawyers—who blog. About a year ago, John Sumser hosted the HR Carnival. It was the brainstorm of Shauna Moerke, aka HR Minion. A few months ago, Eric Meyer, who knows a good [...]
Here is a harsh truth I see in many teams. Otherwise competent professionals can’t bring themselves to discuss the most basic realities that define their teams: members who behave rudely, members who produce poor quality work, members who are not completely honest about issues, sacred cows that have existed in the group for years.
Last week, I told you about the fact that BeKnown‘s basic Facebook traffic had caught up with Branchout. I can share more detail today on what these numbers might mean.
There are two kinds of businesses emerging on the scene today. One, blessed with resources from investors, is heavily oriented towards tool creation in social technology. The other, personified by Craig Fisher, is being built by people with substantial time in the trenches.
You Don't Know Recruiting There's no Recruiters Anonymous where we can stand up and share our woes. No psychotherapists with an in-house recruiter specialty. As recruiting and talent acquisition leaders, we're not looking to scream and yell or kick down your door. But the root of frustration is this: you don't know what it means [...]
I’ll be sitting in the audience at HREvolution on Sunday October 2, 2011. It’s like the warm up band for HR Tech. Imagine that it’s Lucinda Williams opening for Dean Martin. It’s like that. If you want to understand where HR is headed, check out HR evolution and HR Tech (Oct 3-5). I hope to see you there.
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