When I was at the SHRM National Conference last week, I gave a hug to someone and they jokingly said it they “could cross it off their bucket list!” I responded with, “That’s what I do, change lives with hugs!” The concept of bucket lists and HR pros got me thinking what a true bucket list of an HR person …
We Need a New Association for Talent Acquisition Pros
I am just home from Las Vegas. My meetings coincided with the SHRM Annual Conference, and I was able to meet human resources leaders from around the world who talked about attending sessions about executive compensation, defined benefit pension plans, and social media. You know who I didn’t meet? Talent acquisition professionals under the age of thirty. There’s a quirky …
Join Tim Sackett and Kris Dunn at SHRM National in Vegas!
It’s true. If you’re at SHRM National next week, you’ve got a rare opportunity to see Tim Sackett and Kris Dunn presenting together at “We’re Bringing Techy Back” at 2pm on Monday, somewhere in the Convention Center in Vegas coded with the sexy “N228-230” tag. We’ll be sharing all our secrets for shopping for HR Tech: how to negotiate, …
OZ, The Great and Powerful… (not)
Like many of you, I’ve received plenty of collateral material inviting me to the SHRM National Conference in Las Vegas. Let’s put aside for a minute the temperature in Nevada in late June, and instead focus on the the world-renowned speakers booked for the event. First of all, it seems the ladies in our profession are in for a real treat …
The CYA Report E71: Welcome To SHRM Certification
SHRM. SCP. SHRM-SCP. SPHR. PHR. CYA. WTF? We know you’re dying to know more about the SHRM-SCP certification path—especially if you listened to this podcast we did on SHRM announcing that it’s going to start offering its own certification program to rival the SPHR/PHR. Well, we’re here to give the people what they want. Tim Sackett, President at HRU Technical Resources, …
Ladies, Bring Your Diet Pills: SHRM15 and Dr. Oz
Every year, the Society for Human Resource Management has an annual conference. They choose speakers who have something to say about work, money, power, and politics. One year, SHRM invited Condoleezza Rice to speak. It’s an interesting choice because Rice grew up in Birmingham. She discussed how she overcame institutional racism to achieve some amazing goals in life. She didn’t discuss the …
$HRM and HRCI; Mo Money, Mo Problems
Hank Jackson is a CPA. Prior to being CEO of SHRM, Mr. Jackson served as the Global Finance Officer. Before joining SHRM, he was the EVP/CFO for Howard University; before that, a public accountant. Let’s just say the man knows his way around a spreadsheet. Hank, as I mentioned, is a CPA. So with that in mind, consider again the recent …
The CYA Report E62: The SHRM Certification Fiasco
In case you missed it last week, SHRM announced that it’s going to start offering its own certification program to rival the SPHR/PHR. That means their ultimate plan is to make the SPHR/PHR meaningless. Here’s a nice rundown of the announcement from SHRM Members for Transparency, aka SMFT: “On Monday, May 12th, SHRM announced that it will begin offering its own …
5 Things You Should Know This Week
Hi FOT Nation! Welcome back to another week—here are 5 things you should know to get your week started: 1. Monster’s New Strategy: Aggregate All the Jobs; Pay for Performance; Broaden Candidate Base: Careers publisher Monster Worldwide outlined a sweeping new strategy that vastly expands its job offerings and the universe of candidates—by aggregating them from social sites and the Internet generally—and introduces …
The CYA Report E57: SHRM Members for Transparency—2 Years Later [PODCAST]
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