When I start to think about adding something like Live Video Interviewing or Video Screening to my HR/Recruiting Toolbox – I instantly go to about 100 reasons why we can’t do that in our environment! It’s too Technical! It will take too much time! It will cost too much! I’m not smart enough to make [...]
The New York Times recently had a good article titles “The Top 10 Rookie Mistakes for Entrepreneurs” which looks at the top reasons people usually fail when starting a new business. As you can imagine many of the reasons where typical: expense control, fiscal responsibility, having a strong value proposition, etc. But out of all [...]
For the background of this list – see my original post from 2-10-12. The #12 Rap Lyric That Shaped My Leadership Style comes from the Nicki Minaj’s 2011 song Fly, featuring Rhianna. Most white folks know Nicki Minaj, not from Rap, but from how her song Super Bass was sung by that little English girl [...]
I overheard on the radio about this Australian company who is rewarding returning mothers to their workforce by paying them Double their salary when they return to work, for the first 6 weeks. My first impression was – “Oh hell No – don’t let any of my female employees find out about this!” For those [...]
If your sitting in your HR office right now reading this, about to create some new HR stuff – stop – your wasting our time (and by “our” I mean all of us employees in the organization). “Wow – look who woke up on the wrong side of the week!” It’s not that I don’t [...]
For the background of this list – see my original post from 2-10-12. The #13 Rap Lyric That Shaped My Leadership Style comes from Kanye West. For those who listen to Kanye – he has some great lyrics, but not many you would consider in terms of shaping your leadership philosophies! But I persevered, digging [...]
In HR we have to have a strategy for everything. What’s your employment brand strategy? What’s your orientation strategy? What’s your open enrollment strategy? It’s not really strategies for most of these – they’re processes – but we get hit over the head so many times in HR we stopped calling our “processes” – “processes” [...]
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I have a feeling I’m about to preach to the choir. I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve had with hiring manager lately – that just don’t get it! (I hear you saying “What do you mean “lately” – did hiring manager “ever” get it!) The Recession has made our job very hard – [...]
For the background of this list – see my original post from 2-10-12. The #14 Rap Lyric that Shaped my Leadership Style comes from an artist making his second appearance on the countdown (feels like Casey Kasem doesn’t it! And now our long distance dedication from Kris in Birmingham to his life partner Lance in [...]
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