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HR Technology Conference 2014: Recruiting System Thoughts
Read more: HR Technology Conference 2014: Recruiting System ThoughtsOverall, this year was one of the best years in a while for the vendor and show floor. In my opinion, there were some significant areas where technology has finally started catching up with vision, and it was happening on…
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The 2012 HR Technology Conference is Coming!!!
I was visiting a Hari Krishna temple yesterday, but it didn’t open at all times. Tourists and visitors had to go in during services hours, and in my case, there were a good 1000 people in queue for this particular…
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Annual HR Technology Survey
There are some things that inform all of us in HR about what is going on with our industry and where things are headed. Of all these useful tools, the annual CedarCrestone HR Technology Survey is one of the top…
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Creating Information from Knowledge from Collaboration
It’s nice being a consultant. People like consultants because we have a specific approach to a problem. We talk to lots of people, look at lots of documents, conduct workshops. Then we synthesize what we have learned and create judgments…
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The Pain Threshold
Lance Armstrong was a US National Champion and a World Champion long before he ever won seven (eight?) Tours de France. The man was always known in cycling circles as the next big gun in US cycling. In one race…
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Missing Steps
I started my day on Monday at 4am when my cab picked me up to head to the airport. As he missed the airport exit (how does that even happen?) I thought to myself that missing my plane would cause…
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Real Time Activity Analysis
Not only am I a geek, I’m a workout geek. The latest geeky gadget I’m lusting over is a Withings E-Scale. For just $165, I can get up in the morning, weigh myself, stand on the scale for a few…
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Annual Plug for the HR Technology Survey
Here’s the link – just go take it. www.cedarcrestone.com/survey/systematicHR.html For those of you who are actually going to read this, there are several surveys out there that the industry counts on for trending year over year. How much are people…
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Deception and Selling Your Data
US President Obama is a Muslim, right? Raised in Kenya, he’s a Mau Mau sympathizer, and actually not even a US citizen (masterfully covered up I must add). Apparently in a new poll, fully 50% of the US population registered…
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Better Measures for Engagement
Is it Gallup that has the “Do you have a best friend at work” question? We’re so into doing employee surveys to measure employee engagement. They provide us with a statistically validated measurement of our workforce once or twice a…
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The Technology Does Not Sell
Years ago, there is a motorola executive was speaking to a group of students. He asks the students to answer a couple of simple questions, “who among you owns a motorola cell phone?”. A small group of students raise their…