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The new HR Portal is not an HR Portal
Read more: The new HR Portal is not an HR PortalWhat exactly was Web 1.0? I honestly can’t even remember. I barely even remember Web 2.0 other than it was the advent of user interactivity so minimally executed that today’s teenagers would not even recognize it as internet. Oh, wait…
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Recruiting Effectiveness Measurement
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. …
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HRs Correlation to Business
When we talk about the impact of HR activities on our business’s operational production, we don’t usually think that there is a direct correlation. In fact, some of our activities probably do have a relatively high correlation effect on business…
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Recruiting Efficiency Measurement
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…
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Misinterpreting Apple and Microsoft
As a global community, we all hate Bill Gates. Actually we all hate Microsoft. While we might depend on things like Microsoft Outlook and the MS Office suite of products, most of us probably believe that they have a bit…
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Which Version of Reality?
I’m an advocate of reality. It’s nice when you can look at something and immediately recognize it. In most cases, a reflection of reality is quite obvious. When I say the word “chair” each and every reader automatically has a…
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What is HRIS?
I’ve been exposed to a lot of HRIS organizations over the years, and some of them are great while others seem to underperform to me. They all seem do to roughly the same things, but they seem to have varying…
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Balance
My road bike is a custom titanium racing frame. It was made by a guy in Montana who is probably the cleanest welder of titanium bike frames in the world, the guy’s work is just impeccable. I don’t really need…
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The Art of Story
Whether you are at a conference watching a videographer recording the event, or witnessing a $100M film getting made, the process of recording to final editing is always the same. Actually seeing how stories unfold is rather amazing – it’s…
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Linking Communication Collaboration and Talent
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…
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Dynamical Systems
Forget for a moment that I’m talking about a mathematical theory. At the core of this post is how we apply some quantitative reasoning to our ability to look at data and predict the future. Personally, I don’t think we…