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Before I sit down to write an FOT post I generally take a look at recent news stories, think about random things I’m upset about or take a look at the blogs that I frequent to spark an idea. This week I had to look no further than our own FOT blog and last weeks post Do You Have the …
I should start by pointing out that I have never had to work with a union…and I hope I never do. I have union friends however. We learned long ago that if we want to remain friends, union topics should be kept off the table. As a right-leaning HR guy, it’s probably not hard to figure out how I feel …
In HR we love plans and it seems like 2011 will be known as the “Year of the Job Plan”, and HR Pros should love that! Everyone has a job plan – Obama, Bachmann, Romney, Palin and Perry (well Perry doesn’t actually have a job plan, he just wants to tell you how bad everyone elses plan is and if …
Alot of people like to talk about Social Media. Alot of people like to talk about Sourcing and Recruiting on Social Media. I count myself amongst them. In fact, in September I have a presentation at HRA-NCA‘s fall kick-off meeting. I’m excited…..I love to talk about using social media resources to do my job. Everyone wants to know the “How”….and …
By this point, all of you already know that I was named to the Top 100 HR and Recruiting Pros To Follow on Twitter, with this honor I had the epiphany to un-suck the HR world when it dawned on me that HR Sucks. For too long, HR Pros have been playing to executives, playing all nice and safe and …
“Pedal and steer, just pedal and steer.” On a recent Saturday afternoon, I probably said that to my five year old 90 times. We had just taken the training wheels off, and she did not trust herself when she started, so she started to pedal with one foot but then put the other one down on the ground. No forward …
Hey FOT Nation – You like Netflix, right? Great news! They’ve got an HR opening you can get involved in. OK – first things first. Take off “SPHR” from your resume. Turns out that counts against you. Also, broad, sweeping generalizations about you being an agent of “change” probably aren’t going to fly either. From the looks of this JD, …
Thursday at 12:00 noon eastern time, Steve Boese, Ed Newman and I will be sitting in on a panel sponsored by Plateau Software: HR as the Authority on Talent. Here's the concept related to Talent Management: An authority is defined as the undisputed expert in a particular field. And, just as the CFO is the authority on finance and CIO the authority on …
FOT Nation – today we've got a point/counterpoint related to whether you should automatically pay severance to anyone you fire. Check out the posts from Steve Boese and Kris Dunn, they're riffing off a quote from Jonathan Kaplan (founder and chief executive of Pure Digital, the company that made the wildly successful Flip camcorders) related to how he dealt with the ‘bad hire’: …
I lead the research arm at my firm…..I get to be the grand pooh-bah of sourcing every darn day in my world, and my job is to find the people our clients seek. And quickly. No dilly-dallying – no stringing the client along. It’s tough. It’s rigorous. I do what I have to do to find the people the clients …
