HR

Job Seekers Must Educate Themselves on Employer Brand

by theguestblogger

Is Employer Brand Important in Candidate Selection? As a job seeker, one of the best things you can do is to get in the heads of recruiters, hiring managers and company leaders. If you understand why, how, and who they hire, you’re already steps ahead. This includes understanding an organization’s tools, processes and resources—everything from [...]

May 16, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

For the Sake of Learning: Ignorance is Not Bliss

by Ray_anne

Just because you can quote statistics or cite a website, article, book, or post about a particular topic doesn’t make you smart or well-versed. It makes you well-read. I prefer to learn by experience or by listening to really great teachers who have been there, done that, or who have watched very carefully as an industry has grown and [...]

May 15, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Is Being Gay a Choice? Should It Be Protected at Work?

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Can You Be Fired for Being Gay? I usually am proud to live in the state of Oklahoma. It’s a friendly place filled with great football and wonderful towns and history. It’s a place I’ve called my home for the last seven years. It’s a state that I feel safe outside of severe weather and [...]

May 15, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

SFW: When Sex at the Workplace Pays

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Sex Sells But Should It Happen at Work? Sex, sex, sex and at work no less. Early on in my professional career, I walked in on a male manager who was transitioning out of the store I was transferring to and one of his female employees. Half clothed and in a compromising position, I was [...]

May 11, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

US Bill Would Make Employer Requests for Facebook Access Illegal

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Protecting Employee Facebook & Social Network Privacy The American public went gaga in March of this year after the media reported a growing trend by employers who are requesting Facebook password and user ID access during their hiring and interview process. These requests for special access to social networks not only are an invasion [...]

May 8, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Memoirs from a Non-High Potential Employee

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Employee Succession Plan Impacts Engagement As someone who has participated in succession planning for my direct reports and employee populations I was responsible for, I never had the opportunity to hear from my senior leaders their succession plan or planning for me. You’d think that working inside an organization as an employee, you [...]

May 4, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Personality Tests: As Defining as Your DNA?

by Ray_anne

Several years ago, I engaged in an online survey/test called StrengthFinders. My employer, at the time, thought that if we got to know each other’s strengths, we might focus less on each other’s weaknesses. We might actually play up to the revealed strengths of each team member and figure out how to best play [...]

May 3, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Don’t Let the Man Bring You Down

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

How Does Your Childhood Define You? My childhood was unique. It was unusual, and I was blessed. I had a mother and a father who loved me each and every single day. They continue to do so even now. We lived in Kansas, a very conservative and Republican state. Our family didn’t quite fit in, [...]

May 2, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Can HR Make Friends at Work?

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

HR Are People Too. Cross My Heart. This week I’m at the SHRM Talent and HRO Today Forum conferences in Washington, DC and next week I’m in New York City for the HRPS Global Conference. All three are great events with a variety of human resource professionals from big companies as well as small. [...]

May 1, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Average is No Longer Good Enough

by Mike Haberman

The Average Employee at Work Is Just Average Thomas Friedman wrote about the effect that the ever increasing use of technology and the increasing global competition is having on unemployment in the U.S. His conclusion is that average is no longer good enough for American workers. Friedman says “In the past, workers with average skills [...]

April 30, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Talent Circles: Talent Networks Done Right

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Talent Network vs. Online Social Network My philosophy on building any type of community and relationships online is simple, “Go where the people are,” which is why I’m an advocate of online social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to engage a target audience. For the marketing department, recruiter or HR, any interaction online influences [...]

April 27, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Why Work Sucks. The Zero Creativity Zone

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Creativity, Innovation, & Productivity at Work When it comes to the workplace, people don’t often associate creativity or happiness with work, and that’s a shame. A growing number of employees are unengaged and consider their work time a soul-sucking nightmare. Well, I for one don’t want to spend my time in any type of [...]

April 25, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

What the bleep is a Talent Community?

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Check out this Thursday’s free webinar at 11 AM CST, “What the <bleep> is a Talent Community?” Participants are eligible for HRCI recertification credits. Not able to attend? We also offer free webinars on demand. What the Heck is a Talent Community? There are buzz words that happen in any industry and recruiting and [...]

April 24, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Why Managers Hate HR’s Love Affair with Big Data

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

How Human Resources Uses Big Data Reporting On Monday, the Wall Street Journal published an article on Moneyball and the HR Department. While the response was mixed among commenters, I applaud HR for actually taking the time and effort to use data to support their efforts. I also applaud the WSJ for printing the article [...]

April 18, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

No Gene for the Human Spirit: The Genome Project Sucks

by Ray_anne

The Triumph of the Human Spirit Many years ago, I sat in a 200-level English class studying different forms of story-telling. Two class sessions were spent time on the 1997 Andrew Niccol film Gattaca starring Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, and Uma Thurman. This sci-fi drama quickly became one of my all-time favorites, not so much because [...]

April 16, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Do Job Interviews Measure Sight Reading?

by Mike Haberman

How to Interview & Select the Right Candidate If you don’t play music you may not know what sight reading is, as I didn’t. Seth Godin wrote a short blog post called Sight Reading, where he relates that when he was young he did not practice his music lessons. He said “I was so [...]