Jim Hammock (May 06, 2009) Jim Hammock is one of the reasons that our industry is in the shape it is today. A lumbering Texan, with long credits as an IBM Sales Engine and as a fixer for big time VCs, Hammock was the CEO of Hire.com. He was Hank Stringer‘s operating partner for the […]
Thought For The Day: Free content does not mean low value, no matter what the expensive content providers say. craigslist as a poor recruiting tool I’m not sure what you call it when one competitor calls the other a bad name. In this case, Tony Lee, VP of Nework Operations at Adicio is lambasting Craigslist. […]
HRTech Central (April 03, 2009) I’m putting my resources behind a new offering called HRTechCentral. Tony Karrer, the guy behind the new effort thinks hard and deeply about how people learn, how they consume information, how they interact with blogs and what information they might need. As a leader in the learning end of the […]
Thought For The Day: ““Fall down seven times. Stand up eight”- Japanese proverb via Dennis Smith Splits.org Recruiters helping recruiters. 2 days old, still in beta, 2 sendouts in process. Bootstrapping the scrappy small business end of the industry. Jason Davis executes another brainstorm with Miles Jennings. Based on the use of the #splits hashtag. […]
Thought For The Day: “Hire slowly. Fire quickly” – Zappos McKinsey: What Matters: Organization From well outside of the bounds of conventional HR comes this McKinsey package of articles about Talent Futures. They were, you’ll remember, the source of the original “War for Talent” meme. Of particular note: The new talent imperative and Netting young employees. Portrait […]
Thought For The Day: The society is more bankrupt than the financial system. What battered newsrooms can learn from Stewart’s CNBC takedown1) Great research trumps good access to the powerful 2) The American public is mad as hell right now, so why isn’t the mainstream media? 3) Tear down this wall…of pretending that the media itself isn’t […]
Thought For The Day: See the Sourcing Is Dead Debate on RBC A History of HR Standards Bookmark this set of articles. It’s the story of the effort to create an integrated standard for HR Systems interoperability. While the project made some headway, few people have a real stake in a positive outcome. The results, […]
Thought For The Day: “HR People are Nomadic” – Heard on The Recruiting Animal Show The Apple Mafia Corporate culture can shape much more than the insides of the company. A look at Apple influence and the culture of other Silicon Valley giants. ShareThis is the next big data platform “If the current iteration of […]
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