Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Trench HR”
The next big thing in HR is also the #1 thing HR sucks in. Whether you’re feeling it or not in your organization, hiring is coming back. That means slowly but surely the economy is getting better. That means slowly but surely you’re going to have people retiring. All those Baby Boomers that held on an extra 2, 3, 4 …
I was at an HR executive forum not long ago. Great group, smart folks, lively conversation. Over lunch we discussed HRIS systems, payroll woes and other typical HR fodder discussed in between bites of grilled chicken or whatever. I brought up casually that my team was using Skype to conduct prescreen interviews. Boom-went-the-dynamite. Within seconds the table of happy practitioners …
Have you guys ever seen a top level athlete in high school get recruited to play college sports? I'm not talking about your best friend Mary's son, Billy, who hit .338 his senior at Northern High and is getting a partial scholarship to St. Mary's Western Community College. I'm talking top 100 kids who have offers from USC, Notre Dame, …
Before you go all Obama on me, let me explain. A Stanford Business School economist recently studied the impact of political partisanship and attractiveness – believing that people find those of the same political party that they share, more attractive than someone from an opposing party. From the article in Slate: “In the first experiment, 197 subjects were brought into …
how can i get back with my ex girlfriend One of the most read blog posts I've written in the last two years is: How To 'Really' Get An Entry Level Job. It's pretty basic, straightforward advice on how I would go about finding an entry level job, if I was just coming out of college. One piece of advice …
I haven't read the book HR Champions because there are much better things to do with my life. I need to finish the first season of Homeland. I would like to travel to India. I still haven’t finished Moby Dick. (Don't tell my English teacher.) I have bigger aspirations for my life than reading a book about Human Resources, but …
The single biggest threat to HR pros ever being strategic is lousy time management skills. Declarative sentence over… allow me to build the case. Noise in holding us back. The effing noise in particular. Real strategic thinking and/or doing takes time. Time is a commodity and most HR folks don’t have. Noise management is a personal pursuit… meaning, what works …
There's something that I think most employees experience from time to time, that feeling like no one is listening to me! It happens to everyone from the CEO down to the janitor. I'm sure the lower down the career ladder you go, the more you experience this feeling. Many times it really isn't that people aren't listening. In fact, you're …
bad credit need a home I was driving recently, can't remember where, and listening to the radio when the commentator I was listening to (again, can't remember who) said this: “Celebrate rarely, but grind daily.” The commentator said this when commenting about his own beliefs. He doesn't think you should celebrate all the time (but, Tim, celebrations are important – …
where to get a loan with bad credit lag•gard /ˈlagərd/ Noun A person who makes slow progress and falls behind others: “I have no time for laggards”. Adjective Slower than desired or expected. Synonyms noun. lagger – slowcoach adjective. sluggish – lagger – slow – tardy Turns out, you are either a laggard or you are not. That's life in the …
