The intersection between HR strategy and HR technology
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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I have a friend who has his own consulting business was describing some pretty cool RSS functionality he’s been using. One of his customers has an order system that gets input into theirs salesforce.com system. Each night, any orders get sent to my friend’s system through RSS. The RSS integration has been engineered not only […]
Continue ReadingThere is a single offboarding experience that sticks out in my mind as one of the most positive work experiences I’ve ever had. While these days we have technology and alumni networks to help us out, successful offboarding is more about the people than about the technology or process. As usual, I had not been […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been thinking about how would could both communicate through podcasts. Certainly there are the obvious applications. If you do a corporate meeting, why not record it and make it available for download? If the President of the U.S. gets to speak to the nation weekly in his radio address, why not HR? What about […]
Continue ReadingSo what are the right expectations for a millennial just entering toe workforce? Ryan states “I find that managers are not giving me the appropriate guidance necessary for me to grow in the company. They’re too concerned with what’s going on above them to look at what’s going on below.” And “Some of my best […]
Continue ReadingThis wasn’t supposed to be a series. Both the Recruiting Animal and “Ryan” have brought up interesting points that I’d like to comment on. Is it possible that all of this “adjusting” going both ways (to the Millennials and for them to work) is really just workforce entry angst? Recruiting Animal: If that’s true, it […]
Continue ReadingYou know – sometimes I talk so much about the technology of how things work, that I feel like I’m giving the wrong imprssion of what’s actually important. Andrew makes a nice point regarding the candidate experience here. Granted my blog is about the technology that drives some of these things, but the actual experience […]
Continue ReadingYup – so we’re all familiar with onboarding now. (if not, scroll down and read a bit). Terminating employees has never gotten too much press aside from COBRA, HIPAA, getting your property back and exit interviews. However, just as there are technology requirements for a seamless on-boarding process, many of these must be reversed during […]
Continue ReadingI’ll be honest, I totally forgot I was supposed to write a part 3. Thanks to an anonymous commenter to remind me. I’m not going to do a complete review at this time, but simply highlight a few vendors that I think have excellent tools. Vendor 1: Consulting firms. To be honest, most of the […]
Continue ReadingVertitude put out this article that addresses some of my previous posts. It’s interesting to me how many people think that onboarding starts with day 1. Without some enphasis immediately after offer acceptance, you miss major opportunities to influence and shape your new hire’s concept of your culture. Anyway, here’s an excerpt: The minute a […]
Continue ReadingLet’s start this one off with a picture. Let me first say that time also increases from left to right. So your first step would be recruiting and all the functions in the ATS system on the left. After that, you create an offer letter and direct the employee to the on-boarding site. This letter […]
Continue ReadingOK – So I’ve decided that it’s time for a new topic other than employee engagement. Since Andrew has so kindly thought one up for me, I figure we’ll do something around on-boarding. In the next few days, I’ll be doing a 3 part series on the topic. I’m hoping this will also result in […]
Continue ReadingAndrew has a very nice write-up on measuring the recruitment experience through the entire recruiting experience and then the first year of employment. One of the other new buzwords besides “talent” is “onboarding.” Onboarding is not only the new hire experience. It is everything that happens from the moment an offer letter is extended to […]
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