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.
Collaboration is nearly always championed by people who want to be in charge of stuff. This year, I took a series of experimental classes with a number of geniuses in educational technology and reform. Their ardent belief in the collaborative god initially gave me the willies. I soldiered on, but did I change my mind?
Last week, I went to Dreamforce, It's Salesforce.com's annual gathering of the clan. It was intense and the opposite of most HR conferences. My personal epiphany came as I was browsing the Dreamforce Bookstore. Everyone has begun to sound the same. There, at Dreamforce, I realized that we're on the verge of a future that is nothing like our view of it.
Three Myths about Hiring the UnemployedAnyone who has been unemployed and looking for work in the middle of a career knows how difficult and frightening the process can be. Now, as a business owner, I'm proud of the fact that my company has been able to hire people who were unemployed (or under-employed) and then […]
Peter Clayton has interviewed over 600 leaders in the HR and Recruiting industry. Sorting through the archives at Total Picture Radio will give you a first class education in the industry. Find out what Peter is up to these days and what you can learn from tuning in to his clear and present signal.
Arie has been building a from scratch recruiting operation for a going concern. As such, she is able to utilize new approaches and technologies faster and more fully than someone making change in an ongoing operation. Arie’s industry influence stems from the fact that she runs the best observable “test kitchen”.
Market complexity is the normal condition of the Recruiting and HR Industry. With warring factions, cultural differences, regional biases, profession driven sales techniques and 50 Million annual customized transactions, it is not surprising that no company has ever owned more than 4% of the domestic American marketplace. It is difficult to explain the recurring expectation […]
Top 25 Online Influencers in RecruitingFor some Recruiters and Talent Management organizations managing online influence can feel like walking the plank. But the people on our Top 25 Lists have figured out how to navigate the waters of online influence. Get acquainted with twenty five bright voices in recruiting in this week's HRExaminer Feature. Dive […]
It’s easy to forget that the HRExaminer investigation of online influence began over two years ago. Before there was traackr, klout, or other tools that measure influence, we were trying to figure it out. The idea wasn’t very original. Influence was at the root of Google’s page rank algorithm.
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