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Switching Gears
Read more: Switching GearsA long time ago, I used to work for ADP doing pre-sales. We had great relationships internally with services and implementation, but nonetheless it always seemed to come up that we didn’t always sell with the full lens of reality. …
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Communicating with a Millennial (Part 3: Getting to Know You)
This 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…
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Communicating with a Millennial (Part 2: Dubs needs friends)
There was a fair amount of conversation regarding this “millennial” generation last week, some of it controversial and with minor disagreement. There doesn’t seem to be differences in that we all agree that each generation has it’s own quirks in…
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Communicating with a Millennial
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 significant change in the way this generation is looking at work…
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2 Years – A Self Proclaimed systematicHR Love-Fest
Yup, my first post on the HR Technology Discussion Board was 2 years ago today and I’ve posted over 500 times since then. You have also written over 1000 comments. About 2000 of you read this site directly on a…
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Google Talent Acquisition innovations
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 this thinking there was going to be an incredibly innovative new…
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Employee Morale and Uncertainty
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 job, I had to interview personnel at different levels, and as…
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Capturing Collaboration Networks in HR
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, and most work is best performed in either team environments or…
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Top HRO Deals
Who’s paying attention? Did the value of HRO deals go down in 2006? Sure, there were much fewer $1B deals, but what was the cause of that? Were there overall fewer deals as well? I’m thinking that deals are starting…
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Who will own performance management?
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 talent acquisition vendors have been calling themselves talent management. Sure, it’s…
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Google’s Ten Golden Rules For Talent
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, and the engine of this site, WordPress. The reason is that…