Out Now: Episode 415: Registered Apprenticeship Programs in the Clean Energy Sector With Dr. Janell Hills

What Zenefits Teaches Us About the Limits of Disruption

What Zenefits Teaches Us About the Limits of Disruption Hot IT startup Zenefits offers small businesses HR software. It receives funds from many sources, including a sizable investment from actor Jared Leto, and it also generates revenue from businesses using its software to buy services like payroll and insurance. Its objective is to streamline and […]

Reinventing Performance Management: Where to Start and Why the Time Is Now

There is widespread agreement as more and more companies realize that our traditional performance management processes are archaic. Worse yet, I’d argue most performance management processes have nothing to do with performance at all. Where to Start and Why the Time Is Now Unfortunately, fixing this today isn’t as simple as taking an antiquated system […]

How Would You Fair If You Were Yelped by Employees?

In an article on Fast Company, titled The Rise Of Millennials, Crowdsourcing, And Automation Are Going To Reshape The World, readers were informed that rating sites are going to become a two-way street. We are in the throes of becoming what is called a “Rateocracy” where everyone can rate everyone. Glassdoor, Yelp and Uber Almost everyone […]

Why You Should Support Industry Soloprenuers

In 2007 I aspired to be a professional blogger. I wanted to be someone who could stand up for the opinions and share experiences for the recruiter and HR practitioner. I was tired of men over 40 having the stage when the industry was and is predominantly women. I dreamed of the acceptance I’d receive. […]

HR’s Number One Responsibility Is Creating an Effective LOA Program

2015 was quite the year, with many companies making some radical (in a totally positive and most awesome way) changes and additions to their leave programs. I get it, we can’t all be Vodafone, Netflix, Twitter, or Adobe when it comes to parental and other leave programs – but that doesn’t mean that you get […]