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The Social Recruiting Process: What You Need to Know
Read more: The Social Recruiting Process: What You Need to KnowTechniques 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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The Fear of Feedback
I once worked for an organization where feedback was deemed as critical to the success of any project. In this case, these projects were sales cycles, but the general principle is transferable. This organization had a group called “Afterburner” in to speak with the entire sales force. Afterburner was made up of ex-military pilots and…
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Happy Holidays (systematicHR on a break)
Thanks for reading this year. systematicHR is coming around towards its 3rd anniversary on the web, and there are more readers than ever before. I’ve never taken a break, even when on vacation, the site keeps plugging away. However, this year I think I’ll take a pause for 3 weeks through the holidays. I wish…
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Will Millennials Be Able to Manage?
HBS had a question posted asking how well millennials would manage. The core of the discussion follows: In short, they are high maintenance, high risk, and often high output employees… There seems to a fixation these days on millennials as employees. But what kind of managers will they make? Given the earlier reflections, one might…
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Outsourcing 2.0
Hopping on the 2.0 bandwagon, the Outsourcing Institute put out their Outsourcing 2.0 whitepaper, much to my entertainment. How do we know when we’ve reached an Outsourcing 2.0 environment? Web 2.0 capabilities will have brought an entirely new mindset to the outsourcing community that will become just as contagious as the technology tools themselves. We…
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A Recruiting Cheat Sheet
As the world prepares for the News Year recruiting season, I thought I’d just link out to a resource for recruiters and applicants alike. Within this page are 100 links to various sources on just about any recruiting topic you could possibly be interested in. It’s a great resource with lots of expert opinions. The…
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Great Job Interview Questions
I’d like to reference a post on CEOconsultant.com with a list of 10 great questions. To be honest, I found only a few of them innovative, but those are questions I’ve never heard before. Here are questions 1, 2 and 4 which I loved. You can see their answers to these questions and others in…
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Social Media in the enterprise – best practice #4
Speaking about a client who never got anything done, an associate of mine once told me, “they are too in love with the process.” TOC (the other systematic) stated in best practice #3 that governance is critical in the implementation and management of social medias in the enterprise. I have to agree. In fact, I’d…
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College Recruiting: What Are You Paying For?
I’ve always been a fan of the theory that a 4 year bachelors degree means almost nothing. Having gotten a degree in business administration, finance, Economics, or philosophy amount to almost the same thing as someone enters the workforce. Let’s say a person enters a job in pharmaceutical sales. Were any of the degrees going…
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Gen X: The Bridge to Gen Y
There’s much speculation and conversation these days about Gen Y (or the millennial generation). Who understands them, how do they work, what makes them tick, and how do managers manage them? Much of the conversation is centered around the basic idea that this generation is fundamentally different and that “we” don’t get them yet. While…
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Pride and Shame in Employee Engagement
We generally hear about employee engagement being defined as that intangible quality which exists within an employee that stimulates him or her to work that additional discretionary hour beyond what is required for the basic performance of his or her job. In the Western world, we usually think this comes from having “cool work” or…