Five Links: Talent

Our five links this week include: Talent Communities, The Skills Gap, Robots Will Take Our Jobs, The Post Productive Economy, and Three Lessons for the Industrial Internet from publishers like ADP, Wired, O’Reilly, BizJournals and Kevin Kelly. Plus, see our Events, Interesting Happenings and New Resources at the end of this post.
 

HRExaminer Radio: #1: Neil McCormick

For our inauguaral HR Examiner Radio Episode John Sumser speaks with this week’s guest Neil McCormick, fouder of HRMAdvisors, an Australian consultancy that helps organizations harness the effectiveness of their people.
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New Architecture of Work VIII: Harnessing Employee Data

Have you been following the emerging conversation about the Internet of Things? The prevailing case law seems to indicate that the owner of the device is the owner of the data.
 

Blue Heron Recruiting

Here are a couple of posts from just about a decade ago.  The industry has been working over that time to clarify the definitions of talent pools, talent communities and so on. These two are a meditation on the business of attracting and nourishing talent.     Just outside of the greenhouse (our offices) is […]
 

HRExaminer v.3.51

Our features this week are highlights from HR Examiner in 2012 and include The Skills Gap, New Architecture of Work and Employee Privacy Series. We’ve enjoyed your company this year and we wish you a wonderful New Year.
 

Five Links: Technology and The Future

Topics: Big Data, Daily Links, Futures, HR Technology, John Sumser, by John Sumser
Quick review of a study that validates the idea that serial entrepreneurs are more likely to build successful businesses. Prior business failure is an indicator of future business success. The principle should be a part of succession planning.
 

Skills Gap: The Series

Topics: John Sumser, Skills Gap, by John Sumser
A walk down any Main Street will show you what’s hapopening in the retail sector. It’s shrinking and getting more technical. At the very same time, retail suffers from surplus and shortage. That’s what’s so tricky about any anlysis of the problem.
 

More Privacy

“As technology makes monitoring everything possible, and data about people, their bodies, actions, and processes becomes valuable, privacy will be one of the biggest social and legal issues of our time. Here is the series we did on workplace privacy late last year.” – Heather Bussing
 

Year in Review: Privacy

“Allowing people to know information about you is not necessarily a bad thing. I like it when Amazon suggests other books I might want to order by the same author or about the same subject. I often buy them. But the Facebook ads for weight loss, wrinke reducers and pole dancing lessons usually just piss me off. ” – Heather Bussing
 

The Series: New Architecture of Work

In the late summer, we started exploring the new face of HR in the “New Architecture of Work” series. There are a number of driving forces moving HR into its next level