Talent
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Communicating with a Millennial
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I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand what I’ve been calling the millennials, others have been calling Gen Y. I think we all understand that there’s a…
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Google Talent Acquisition innovations
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The NY Times ran an article about Google using a new algorithm to search through their 100,000 resumes they receive every month. Initially I was really excited to read…
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Employee Morale and Uncertainty
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The other day I was visiting a client site and was struck by how recent financial difficulties experienced by the client had impacted the workforce. As part of my…
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Capturing Collaboration Networks in HR
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There’s much talk about collaboration networks these days. In truth, collaboration is how work gets done. Very few jobs require people to work in solitude to achieve their goals,…
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Who will own performance management?
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Dave Lefkow asks “who will own performance management?” I have several responses. Finally, a talent acquisition guy who realizes that talent management is not just recruiting. For ages, the…
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Google’s Ten Golden Rules For Talent
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It’s hard not to be enamored with certain technologies. The truly cutting edge personalized nature of web 2.0 is easy to adopt. My personal favorites are Google products, Firefox,…
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Does Recruiting Software Make HR More Effective?
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Alana Post recently wrote some biting criticism of HR technology, most specifically recruiting software. ((Since the post has been removed, I won’t go into specifics other than to say…
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Globalization, Economic Scale, and Talent – The Realities of Asia
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Michael Specht pointed me at this video link where he drew out the following thought: “the 25% of China population with the highest IQ is larger than the total…
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Sleep, Work-Life and Performance
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Many of us who read systematicHR are in the same situation. We’re good at what we do, we’re over-worked, we’re committed to achievement, and our employers expect us to…
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PeopleSoft Updates
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Much of this is old news, but a few interesting tidbits crossed my path and I thought I’d do a fuller update. Of main interest and something I didn’t…
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Learning and Gaming Technology: The Advantage of Simulations
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Efficiency and effectiveness are derived from three specific advantages that simulations have over the experience based learning. First, simulations eliminate risk and the painful consequences of poor decisions. Simulation…
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The Role of the Recruiter
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A couple weeks about I wrote about technology being a more powerful source of job loss as compared to outsourcing. This was picked up by the Recruiting Animal with…
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Educating for Innovation
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Once again, from the Talent UnConference (TalUnCon) hosted by Electronic Arts on January 25, 2006. ((From the Talent UnConference, January 25, 2007. Ideas expressed in this post may be…
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Universum Survey of New Graduate Preferences
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There’s a lot more to the Universum survey that I have time to go into or interpret including top employer brands cut into multiple categories and such. What I…
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Recruiting Recruiters as a Leading Economic Indicator
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There was some serious conversation at the Talent UnConference (TalUnCon) hosted by Electronic Arts on January 25. Specifically, the Talent Planning sessions focused on understanding economic indicators as it…
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Analytics: Linking Silos, Linking Strategy
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There was a question posed on the web a while back (I’m hard pressed to find it) asking what linkages were important to the performance of an HR organization….
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Prosperity Growth and the Satisfaction Gap
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Your grandfather probably worked to live. Your mother and father most likely fired to make a living. Your children will be working to define a life. – Jeff Hunter,…
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Engagement Insights From a Dumb Little Man
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Hey… Dumb Little Man is the name of his website, ok? Coming from a non HR practitioner he has some great insights about retaining engaging employees. In fact, I’d…
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Quantifying Talent
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Sean over at Talent Ecology recently wrote a piece that got me thinking about how we think and process our talent, nut just as people but as distinct sets…
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The Best Places to Launch a Career
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Andrew from Resourcing Strategies wrote this a while back in September of 2006, but then again, I’m about that far behind on my reading. Why do I get excited…