Talent
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The Decline of Corporate Elitism
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When I was a kid, I always hoped and dreamed that I would get into one of those Ivy League schools. Unfortunately, I was a disaster of a student (and a ridiculously undisciplined Asian student to boot). Yes, I had well over a 4.0 GPA, took 26 total AP classes in high school, but I…
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HR Technology Conference 2014: Recruiting System Thoughts
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Overall, this year was one of the best years in a while for the vendor and show floor. In my opinion, there were some significant areas where technology has finally started catching up with vision, and it was happening on a pretty broad level. The smaller startup vendors from the last year have pushed the…
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All Posts, Analytics and Big Data, Big Data, Cloud, Data & Metrics, Features, Talent, Talent AcquisitionBig Data For HR & Recruiting: 2 Use Cases
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Forget about Google. One of the world’s favorite sites has got to be LMGTFY.com. “Let me google that for you.” With the wondrous world of the internet and ubiquitous information, ubiquitous access through our mobile devices, and ubiquitous connectivity, whenever someone asks a dumb question in email, you get to just send them back a…
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Augmented Reality Onboarding
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So I’m looking for a restaurant. I bring up my phone, hold it up in front of me, and scan what’s around. It tells me that 1.2 miles over that way there is a Thai place that is rated week, or 0.65 miles the other way there is a BBQ place that everyone loves. I…
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All Posts, Analytics and Big Data, Big Data, Cloud, Data & Metrics, Features, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Social Talent, TalentJocks vs. Nerds
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“There’s this idea of the jocks vs. nerds thing. That sort of ended when the nerds won decisively. We now live in this era where your big summer tentpole movies can be hobbits and minor Marvel Comics superheroes and boy wizards. If you had told me when I was in junior high there would be…
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Collaboration, Communications, Data & Metrics, Engagement, Features, Social, Social and Gamification, Social Talent, TalentHR, Twitter and Osama bin Laden
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Yeah – I’m going to write about this. I just finished watching Zero Dark Thirty on the plane, and I’m thinking back to that day. I remember landing in the Chicago airport, booting up my phone and checking Twitter. Scrolling through the feed, one caught my eye: “bin Laden is down.” The tweet was more…
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Blogging, Branding, HR Strategy, HR Strategy and Technology, Social, Social Talent, Talent, Talent Acquisition, Work LifeThe Permanent Record
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Perhaps it was because I’m Chinese American and my Chinese parents were rather crazed about education. I did graduate high school with a 4.2 GPA and considered myself an academic failure (still do in fact). My parents used to threaten us that our grades and other bad things we did would go on our permanent…
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All Posts, Engagement, Gamification, HR Strategy, Learning Mgmt, Social, Social and Gamification, Social Talent, Talent, Talent MgmtI Could Have Been A Ditch Digger
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Note of warning: Stereotypes follow in plenty. Last year I wrote a post titled “I could have been a rice farmer.” It’s completely true that had my parents not moved from Taiwan to the United States before I was born, the possible alternatives to my life are infinite. However, I probably would not actually have…
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The Social Recruiting Process: What You Need to Know
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Techniques being used to find and hire talent have changed significantly in the last few years and it’s quickly moving toward a social process. According to a survey from Jobvite, 92% of companies in the US used social platforms for recruiting in 2012. 73% successfully hired a candidate through social media – a drastic increase from…
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Leveling the Playing Field
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I’ve always wondered about the benefits of doping in professional sports. Once, I read about a journalist who decided to dope just to find out if it really was that dramatic at providing performance increases, and not only was he stronger, have significantly more endurance, but he also seemed to start reverse aging (age spots…
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HR Technology Conference Reactions: Talent Management Panel
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The talent management panel at The HR Technology Conference was all about diversity. Not diversity in terms of workforce, but the diversity in terms of approaches in deploying talent processes and technologies that different companies take in pursuit of their goals. With Jason Averbook hosting, we had Walmart (2+ million employees), Motorola Solutions (called themselves…
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Fooling Ourselves
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I’ve been watching with fascination over the last couple years as countires have rebelled against their governments (Arab Spring in 2011), and American citizens have condemned corruption, and congratulated the populous for rising up and forcing change. It’s fascinating to me because we are so unaware of what has been going on around us for…
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Talent Evolution versus Revolution
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If you just bought one of the new 3D TVs that have been on he market for a year or so, i have bad news for you. Its already old technology. Sure, 3D is brand new, and its going to be around for a long time. But wearing glasses will be gone in a year…
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Recruiting Engagement
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So, I used to write this blog for me. Honestly, I could have cared less that anyone was reading it. It has been a great exercise for almost 6 years – forcing me to continuously thing and read and research. I’ve enjoyed writing over 1000 posts and think of it as a fairly significant achievement. …
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Back to Basics
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It seems to me that there has been a renewed focus on core HR. Now I need to tell the truth, I really thought core HR was dead. I mean, it will always be around, but with the whole industry moving on to cooler things like analytics and talent management, who cares about core HR…
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Trend, Drill, Slice
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I love talking about and manipulating data. One of my favorite moments of the month is when I get together with one of the premier data people in HR and we just talk data for 30 minutes just for kicks. It’s fun talking data with someone who gets data, but often, we’re not really doing…
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Behavioral Non-Interviews
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Remembering back to college admissions days (which many of you might have kids going through that right now), one of the best parts of the whole process is doing the college tour thing and doing interviews at the various prospective schools. For 4 year degrees, the risk of not performing well on the interview is probably minimal, but it’s a…
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Recruiting Effectiveness Measurement
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Last post I wrote about recruiting efficiency measures. From the effectiveness side, we’re all used to things like first year turnover rates and performance rates. Once again, we’ve been using these metrics forever, but they don’t necessarily measure actual effectiveness. You’d like to think that quality of hire metrics tells us about effectiveness, but I’m…
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Recruiting Efficiency Measurement
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If you look through Saratoga, there are all sorts of metrics around measuring our HR operations. For recruiting, these include all the standard metrics like cost/hire, cost/requisition, time to fill, fills per recruiter, etc. Unfortunately, I’m not a fan of most of these metrics. They give us a lot of data, but they don’t tell…
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Linking Communication Collaboration and Talent
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There was a time when if you wanted to collaborate, the only way to do it was either walking over to someone and having a conversation, or perhaps you could call someone’s “secretary” and leave a message. Then we got voice mail. Then we got email. We’ve been trapped in an email world for over…