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  • Behavioral Non-Interviews

    Remembering back to college admissions days (which many of you might have kids going through that right now), one of the best parts of the whole process is doing the college tour thing and doing interviews at the various prospective schools. For 4 year…

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  • Cisco Systems uses games to help teach employees



    We’ve talked a lot about the use of games and the next generation of employees. Cisco is employing this strategy, but their gaming/learning technology is still in its infancy (as shown by the fact that they are modeling on a…

  • New HR-XML Certifications



    There are many new names on the list. Some are quite surprising such as Oracle, Brassring and Recruitmax who all should have been on the list earlier. If you are unfamiliar with the HR-XML Consortium, they are publishing XML standards…

  • New HR Technology Blog



    OK, It may not actually be so new as he’s been around since June, but along with Michael Specht and myself, there’s another HR Technology blogger. Jason Corsello of the Yankee Group has some excellent content. I look forward to…

  • Oracle Fusion – More details



    It appears that there is more information leaking out of Oracle these days regarding Fusion. First of Siebel CRM is not in the current plans for Fusion. The Siebel acquisition was made after the initial Fusion architecture decision and has…

  • Success Factors TMS



    Brent (of unknown origin) sent me a note about Success Factors: Hi. I’ve been looking at your blog as I’m doing research on talent management systems, and I noticed that SuccessFactors is not included anywhere. Is this because you don’t…

  • HRO or PEO?



    HR.com seems to have shown their considerable lack of understanding regarding HRO. While they are actually a very good source of information, I see them as similar to SHRM. Both of these organizations cater to mid-sized organizations and are rather…

  • New HR Technology Products



    I won’t be there, but next week’s HR Tehnology Conference will be host to dozens of product unveilings and launches. Here’s just a peek of what’s coming: Authoria ( http://www.authoria.com/ ) The knowledge-based and Talent Management Suite vendor will make…

  • MS Windows Workflow



    Michael posted this on Moscrosoft’s beta workflow engine. Quite interesting I think. While I’m pretty sure I’m not quite technical enough and thus won’t download the entire beta for trial, the MS write-up on MSDN didn’t make me do backflips….

  • Selecting a Performance MS whitepaper



    HR.com’s whitepaper by RecruitMax is an okay overview of selecting a PMS system. In my opinion, it was a bit functional in nature. Here are my highlights: Define expected outcomes: it was only one sentence, but keep in mind that…

  • 2005 HRO Trends and Insights



    Disclaimer: yeah… Hewitt could be considered a competitor of the firm I work for. If you read the rest of my blog, I generally consider them to be a vendor though. Hewitt’s 2005 HRO trends and Insights published in June…