Recruiters are Roadies

Recruiters are like roadies. Our recruiting efforts only set the stage for the main event. The main event is the hiring decision itself.
 

Informal Embrace

Topics: HR Trends, HRExaminer, Jay Cross, Learning, More2Know, by Jay Cross
CLOs tell me the stuff that keeps them awake at night is that now the realization that learning is social, mobile, and collaborative.
 

HRExaminer v5.12

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, Radio, Weekly, by John Sumser
HR Examiner gets comfortable with Wearables and Google Glass as John Sumser files his third and fourth installment in the Glass series. You can catch up with Glass Field Report 1: Getting Dressed in Wearables and Google Glass Field Note 2: First Impressions before diving in to Parts 3 and 4 below.
 

Five Links: Wearing Crowdsourced Data on Your Sleeve

Today’s Five Links looks closely at three aspects of data: crowdsourcing, wearables and big data projects.
 

Google Glass Field Note 4

In this note, John Sumser details all of the functions and capabilities of the Google Glass device.
 

Is Retention the Problem?

Topics: HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
Why do we have layoffs? One counter-intuitive answer is “because retention programs work.”
 

Five Links: Watching the Data Flow

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
Are we necessary parts of the emerging machine or are we headed for lives of leisurely squalor?
 

Google Glass Field Note 3

Topics: HR Technology, HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
Google Glass: The stuff of everyday life will be things that talk to each other with or without human intervention.
 

HRExaminer v5.11

HR Examiner looks at face detection, big data privacy, and other potentially creepy tech in Five Links: Hot New Technologies by John Sumser. We host this year’s edition of the Employment Law Blog Carnival in ELBC Walks Into a Bar with Heather Bussing. Speaking of Heather Bussing, When Companies Ignore Law, Heather takes note and lets you know the score. Five Links: How Things Work takes a peek behind the curtain. In our on-demand edition of HR Examiner Radio John interviews Bucky Couch and today at 2PM EDT for our live show he speaks with Sylvia Vorhauser-Smith, Senior Vice President of Research at PageUp People. Enjoy!
 

Five Links: How Things Work

This edition of Five Links features articles about how things work. Usually, by the way, it’s not how you think they should.