Below you'll find a list of all posts from June, 2013
“Be prepared to leave the company.” That’s the professional opinion I gave the Mrs., sometime last year when she was feeling jerked around by her employer and had reached the point of making a formal complaint to Human Resources. It’s a sad commentary on our profession, but I knew the potential end-game she faced once that bridge was crossed – …
It’s almost July, and for those of you in really big companies, that means one thing—you’re almost ready to start thinking about budget season for 2014. Yes, that soul-sucking process where your operators try to hide FTE sand and your Finance department slowly cuts them down to size. Because lets face it, the operators you support are addicted to not …
Your hiring managers are hopelessly biased when it comes to making selection decisions in the hiring process, often resulting in a team more reminiscent of the Stepford Wives and less like the band of pledges seen in Old School’s Lambda Epsilon Omega. Why? People have an innate and subconscious tendency to hire the most attractive, smooth-talking candidate when making a selection decision. But having …
Last year when the annual ‘Culture Eats Strategy’ discussion flared up, (Reminder: You are supposed to repeat the phrase ‘Culture eats Strategy’ for variously breakfast/lunch/dinner/the 3:00AM run to Taco Bell over and over again, even if you don’t actually know what it means and have no real way of proving it), I offered a slightly alternative take – that ‘Talent’, or better and less jargony, …
The CYA Report is a free flowing, sometimes mature discussion of HR and talent issues. On today’s show we have Bill Kutik. Bill is the Co-Chair of the HR Technology Conference, a Tech Columnist for HRE, and Host of the Bill Kutik Radio Show. Bill joins us today to talk discuss his last year serving the HR Technology Conference, or what …
Recently the crew at FOT has been having some conversations about what’s new in HR. It use to be all you had to do was show up at a HR conference and listen to someone from Zappos, Google, Sodexo, etc. to find out what were the latest and greatest happenings going on in HR! But no more – it seems …
Congratulations, Google! You’ve done it! You have reached a very important milestone in the evolution of technology companies! You have realized that your coolness and popularity have blinded you to the stupidity of your interview questions. From the Business Insider: “We found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time,” Laszlo Bock, Google’s Senior VP of People Operations, tells the …
We’ve talked a lot in this space about value of the SPHR and PHR for today’s HR professional. Is it worth doing? I’ve always taken the stance that it’s a checkbox – good to do and ultimately will pay off, but it’s always been hard to quantify. A recent study attempts to quantify it… Read the whole post over at …
There is something that has always perplexed me about employees who resign. No matter what the level or situation, a resigning employee rarely says where they are going. Because of my personality (insert how you see me here – I’ll just say I’m unfiltered) I always ask – “Hey! That’s Great! Where are you going?” Always – and I mean …
In this first edition of “Laurie and Meredith Talk S#*t About People and Things,” they discuss the 2013 SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition and the Glassdoor party at House of Blues. (Email subscribers click through to see the video.) Laurie RuettimannLaurie Ruettimann is a writer, speaker, and entrepreneur based in Raleigh, NC. She’s working on her next book about fixing …
