Five Things HR Can Do (March 13, 2009) The line between HR Basher and patriotic critic is lost on some. While many seasoned HR professionals are an active part of their company’s strategy design and execution, many more are not. I spoke with a colleague last night who said, there are three types of HR […]
Here Comes The Train (Again) (March 12, 2009) First of all, there are two very recent pieces that you need to read to stay on top of the global conversation about HR: Memo to CFOs: Don’t Trust HR (by Richard Beatty from Rutgers University in CFO Magazine) CFOs Should Trust HR, But Do Have Reasons […]
It’s really easy to believe that the president of SHRM could be out of touch enough to think that it’s okay to say “HR is nothing less than civil rights and human rights.” HR people are that out of touch with their organizations. They see no conflict between having an external political agenda and ‘having a seat at the strategy table’. Which flavor of human and civil rights do you suppose HR stands for? Are they for or against the human and civil rights of the unborn? Is HR really supposed to be the PC police, extending and policing rights? Are they really supposed to be an organizations arbiter of politics beyond the law?
Social Networking Software: Hunting, Gathering, Farming, Manufacturing, Interacting (Feb 27, 2009) You can predict the evolution. Just like the rest of civilization, access to and relationships with the members of the millions of social networks will evolve along traditional lines: Hunting, Gathering, Farming, Manufacturing, Interacting. That’s how the web grew up; that’s how the human […]
Social Networking Software: Consolidate and Fragment (Feb 26, 2009) By now, you’re familiar with the fact that Facebook is growing at 1 kazillion percent per month; that MySpace is plateauing and that LinkedIn is struggling to feel like a community.. It’s easy to lose site of the nearly 1 million small social networks* on Ning […]
How Do You Manage Data From Social Networks? (Feb 25, 2009) There’s no question that social networks are a huge part of the future of Recruiting. With roughly 65 Million users in the domestic US, social networks are rapidly becoming the norm. Youth (29 and under) adoption is in the 2/3 range. Here are the […]
Why Twitter is Important: Mapping the social genome. (Feb 12, 2009) Make no mistake. Twitter is the next Google. Not Facebook, not Friend Feed and not a thousand wannabe knockoffs. Just Twitter. Twitter has stopped being “What are you doing?” and started being “look at this!” Sometimes, this is me, this is you or this […]
Job Boards Revisited 3 (Jan 28, 2009) There are several major variables moving through the job board industry right now Job scrapers (like Indeed and SimplyHired) are rapidly growing into positions of dominance. They are currently 40% of the top five job boards and account for half of the industry’s growth in traffic. Their price […]
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