5 Things Every HR Pro Should Do Before a Disgruntled Employee Shoots You!

Tim Sackett Audacious Ideas, Good HR, The HR Profession, Tim Sackett

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

Laurie Ruettimann Audacious Ideas, College Recruiting, Generations, Good HR, HR (& Life!) Advice, Influence, Laurie Ruettimann

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 …

OZ, The Great and Powerful… (not)

John Whitaker Audacious Ideas, Bad HR, John Whitaker, SHRM

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

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas, CYA Report, Kris Dunn, Podcast, Tim Sackett

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

Laurie Ruettimann Bad HR, Laurie Ruettimann, Performance, Seat at the Table, SHRM, The HR Profession

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

John Whitaker HR, SHRM

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 …

5 Things You Should Know This Week

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas, This Week in HR

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]

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas, HR, Kris Dunn, Podcast

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