BeKnown’s user count has surpassed Branchout’s. It’s not much of a surprise. One of a job board’s primary skills is candidate acquisition. As the company that wrote the book on the subject, Monster is uniquely prepared to build an online network.
Really. Your friends are not a network. The mafia is a network. A union is a network. The computers in your house are a network. Your phone runs on a network. Electricity flows though a network. Parts of political parties are networks. Friends are different.
This presentation contains the insights I’ve developed from a couple of years of looking at organizational demographics. The idea of Organizational Aikido is that organizations naturally want to evolve in a certain way. Leading them means understanding the natural tendencies and leaving them alone unless you want to work really hard. The key to maintaining […]
091118 Five Must Reads Wanted Engineering Supply-Demand Hot Spots The data is a little stiff (no one really works some where called the San Francisco – Oakland – Fremont Metropolitan Statistical Area but tons of people commute to the individual cities). But, the idea is in the right place and this is a move forward. […]
091104 Five Must Reads Using Technology To Improve Workforce Collaboration As the workforce changes, there are real questions about how you specify roles and performance when results come from teams. There are wide variations in the productivity of knowledge workers. Here are some points of departure for thinking about the coming world of work. What’s […]
Recruitfest On September 23 and 24, I’m going to be in Toronto for the second annual Recruitfest. It’s the Recruitingblogs.com conference event. It’s unlike any other get together in the HR – Recruiting – Talent Development industry. A regular review of the Recruitfest facebook page will give you some idea of what’s in store. Most […]
Starr – Tincup: Differentiation Have you seen the recently renovated Starr – Tincup website? One thing is immediately clear. There is no other operation like Starr – Tincup in the HR – Recruitment industry. Irreverence, a penchant for the truth, an odd sense of humor and clear targeting of non-boomer demographics are the essence of […]
4 Sale: HRMToday.com Here’s the question that’s been puzzling lots of entrepreneurs? What’s an online community worth? Lance Haun and Laurie Ruettimann, the co-owners of HRMToday.com aim to find out. They’ve . The two seasoned HR bloggers have hit a fork in the road. New gigs, expanding visibility and pure time management issues drove the […]
The Reformatting Robert Reich, the Clinton era Labor Secretary, offers a wise view of the outcome of our current economic turmoil. In ‘When Will The Recovery Begin? Never‘, Reich outlines his view that the next phase will not be a traditional ‘recovery’. Rather, since we’re starting over, Reich sees the next wave of economic behavior […]
Three Legs There are three separate components of any HR organization: the Generalist function, Learning and Development (Training-OD) and Talent Acquisition (Recruiting). For much of the discipline’s history, the generalists owned the career track. Both Recruiting and Training were castaway elements from a career track perspective. As the question of “Talent Management” became a legitimate […]
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