“Winter is Coming.” “You Win or You Die.” “You Know Nothing, Jon Snow.” If you’re a Game of Thrones fan, you know these quotes as parts of iconic conversations from your favorite series. If you’re not a fan of the series (TV or book), you still likely recognize these quotes as fodder from a series that’s made a friend a bit too …
Kids Can Build A Better Talent Network Than You!
I’ve been around youth athletics for almost twenty years. All of my sons have been involved in various sports and travel teams. I was first exposed to youth travel sports about 12 years ago when another Dad approached me at some silly local youth baseball game. The kids could have cared less about the game—they only wanted to know where we …
WEBINAR – Walking Dead: Reviving Your Talent Networks!
You have a bunch of zombies surrounding your career website right now, and you don’t even know it. They stumble around and look at your content, lurk at your jobs and then just stumble away when they don’t find anything to take a bite out of. Well, the folks at FOT and Smashfly are here to help you turn those …
WEBINAR: Top 10 Ways To Use Glassdoor For Good (Not Evil)
Let’s face it. HR pros have a long history of being uncomfortable with sites like Glassdoor.com. After all, the only people that use Glassdoor.com and sites like it are disgruntled ex-employees that you fired, right? Wrong. It was wrong 5 years ago, and it’s horribly wrong today. Rather than view these types of sites as a threat, smart HR and Recruiting pros are learning how …
WEBINAR TODAY! Moving Past Smile and Dial: 5 Ways to Build a Recruiting Function Your CEO Will Love
The recruiting world has grown in complexity with each passing year. Staying on top of the macro trends (mobile, social, etc.) and the moving target related to how candidates find jobs (aggregation, job boards, referrals, etc.) is a full time job. Throw in the difficulty of measuring the effectiveness of your recruiting spend and it’s enough to make you say, …
WEBINAR: The New HR Math: Dumbing Down HR Analytics for Everyday HR and Talent Pros
It all started with a great premise: Let’s teach kids an easier way to understand math so they won’t end up hating it. We can all buy into that, right!? What came out was a classic organizational nightmare of project-gone-wrong, in a way only HR can truly understand—the Common Core was born. Now, there you sit at the kitchen table …
WEBINAR: Bootstrap Your Training Function: 5 Ways To Make Learning Matter In Your Company
It’s true. You know the true power of learning and development, known to the laypeople in your company by the pedestrian term “Training.” A revamp of your approach to learning and development has been on your project list for no less than two years—but day-to-day HR and workforce management duties has kept it in the “someday” bucket. We feel …
WEBINAR: The Difference Between Performance and Potential: A 9-Box Primer for Smart HR Pros
If you’re like everyone else in the free world, March brings a little bit of a grind. The hope and promise of the new year has settled into a familiar routine, and you need something fresh to keep you interested at work as a high-end HR pro, right? Of course you do – that’s why Fistful of Talent is back …
FOT WEBINAR! Six Ways to Make Your Recruiting/Talent Metrics More Strategic – And Make Managers Own Their New Hires.
There’s still time to register! Our first webinar of 2015 debuts tomorrow with Six Ways to Make Your Recruiting/Talent Metrics More Strategic – And Make Managers Own Their New Hires. Hosts Kris Dunn and Dawn Burke will guide you through: – A review of the traditional talent selection/recruiting metrics. We’ll give you a rundown of those metrics like Time To Fill and Cost Per Hire, what the standard …
Buyer’s Remorse: The FOT 1st Timer’s Guide to Buying HR Technology [WEBINAR]
Buying HR Technology (System of Record/HRMS, Applicant Tracking Systems, Performance Management Systems, etc.) should be as easy as buying a high-priced handbag or the latest pair of Jordans! You see it. You like it. You know it’s going to fit and work for your needs. GO! Make the purchase. But it’s not that simple. Buying HR Technology is hard, confusing …