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Social Trust, Authority and Contributorship
Read more: Social Trust, Authority and ContributorshipThere are three people who are pretty commonly in my car. They will go unnamed. One of them is pretty similar to me. She always knows where she is, which way is north, and can get around pretty well. The second has an idea, but has a tendency to say “left” when she really means…
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Pet Peeves Translated to HR 1
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 want to write about. However, since this blog is about HR, I have to tie…
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Taleo Goes Down Market
“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 this alliance, Taleo and Paychex are empowering SMBs with a compelling and high-value offering that…
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A Time and Place for ERP
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 tools, and probably the best per function process and workflows. And while I won’t go…
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A Time and Place for Point Solutions
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 with my pro’s for point solutions from yesterday. They are the “best of breed” solutions,…
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“Talent” as Marketing?
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 would have to reorganize the department and do things differently all day long (small example:…
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Future State: The Business Analyst as Coder
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 portals allow users to customize the look and feel of their interface, to provide data…
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Competencies and Collaboration Models
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 models and the internal professional network can stagnate without necessarily new ideas or practices being…
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Developing an Application For Yourself
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 course. SuccessFactors and other SaaS organizations now have a healthy record of coding and being…
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Rejected Applicants and External Brand
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 postcard that says “thanks, we’ll keep you on file for 6 months” everyone realizes this…
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Changing the Numbers Game
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 a certain number of sales. And of course there are great parallels between recruiting and…