systematicHR
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Why HR Can’t Implement Web 2.0
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Joel Cheeseman wrote an interesting piece on Web 2.0 a couple months ago in the Industry Insider. An outsider is led to believe such cutting-edge tactics in the employment space are the rule. In reality, it’s the exception. The percentage…
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Pet Peeves Translated to HR 3
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When you’re angry, it’s still better to be nice. Sometimes, I see people who are not angry over anything, yet they are still not nice. Here’s my message: some of the people we interact with in HR can have huge…
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Pet Peeves Translated to HR 2
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When at a door, train, bus, or anything else, people going out exit before anyone else goes in. This is a simple process rule. In the example, it makes good sense. You can’t get in a train if people have…
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Pet Peeves Translated to HR 1
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So it’s obvious that writing a daily blog is weighing heavily on the writer. What does one write about…? However, my daily grind is weighing even more heavily and there are a few things that bug me that I really…
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Taleo Goes Down Market
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“Recruiting and retaining talent is the number one challenge for SMBs, and job boards, Excel spreadsheets and Outlook fall short when it comes to competing for superior candidates,” said Jason Blessing, group vice president and general manager, SMB, Taleo. “With…
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A Time and Place for ERP
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Many might argue that this is a point solution market. Indeed, much of what we hear these days is about point solutions. They are the “best of breed” solutions, have the most advanced functionality, slickest user interface and self service…
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A Time and Place for Point Solutions
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So after my little rant on integration yesterday, you’d think that I’m pretty sold on ERP? You’d be right. I’m also sold on point solutions though, and there is indeed a time and place for them. First, let me start…
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“Talent” as Marketing?
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Seth Godin’s recent post on Talent and marketing HR hit home on may fronts. What if you started acting like the VP of Talent? Understanding that talent is hard to find and not obvious to manage. The VP of Talent…
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Future State: The Business Analyst as Coder
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Will the need for someone writing code ever disappear? Perhaps the real question is not if, but when this will happen. We do things today that we would not have dreamed of just fire or six years ago. Today, our…
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Competencies and Collaboration Models
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Does HR participate in the identifying who is in a project team and who collaborates? All too often, project teams are identified by people knowing other people and thinking that skill sets exist. The problem with this is that collaboration…
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Developing an Application For Yourself
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Oracle coded their compensation workbench so they could use it themselves. It’s the best module in their HR suite. What a novel idea to create an application you think is good enough to use yourself. There are other models of…
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Rejected Applicants and External Brand
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Say you are Google. You have a few hundred thousand people sending you applications and resumes on a weekly basis. Therefore, you have to reject a few hundred thousand people on a weekly basis. Even is this is the nice…
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Changing the Numbers Game
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Recruiting is an equation of numbers. So many candidates = so many applicants = so many interviews = so many new hires. This is a well known strategy in many sales organizations that the number of leads eventually results in…
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Lawson – Moving Core HR to The Talent Suite
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Lawson’s introduction of their new Strategic HCM product heads into an interesting direction. I got the change to talk to Larry Dunivan at the Lawson CUE conference and also to see the product briefly. While I’ll admit that I’m never…
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Why Technology Projects Fail 2
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Your technology project is completed. Your go live date is imminent. You have committed serious time and effort to changing your processes, and making sure they get implemented in your new technology appropriately. Your delivery method is changing and people…
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Why Technology Projects Fail 1
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You take on a project to change something in your organization. If you’re reading this, often you’ll be implementing some sort of technology. Why do projects fail? Often, it’s because there is no change in processes prior to implementing technology….
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Competencies are the Resource, Not Humans
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Human Resources. Are we? I’d suggest that we’re not. The building is a resource. The forklift too. You and I? I think not. We’re operators of resources. My theory is not that we are the resource, but we have the…
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On Blackberry Use and Bad Governance
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Not to offend anyone in particular, but I’ve noticed a trend among companies I visit: Organizations where (under the table) blackberry use during meetings runs rampant tend to have really bad governance models. Conversely, organizations where people are engaged and…
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A Thumbs Up for Video Resumes
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The following was written by Colleen Aylward, Founder of InterviewStudio.com as a rebuttal to my unapologetically negative rant on video resumes. Every opinion has a counter and deserves to be heard. Therefore, read the pro’s on video resumes below and…
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Gen Y’s Entitlement Employment
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What do we do with these kids? They are high maintenance, operate in a different model, and often leave our organizations before we get much value out of them. I myself exited college in a rather severe economic downturn. Waiting…