Social Media Reconsidered I’m in the middle of a social media siesta. I’ve toned down my participation in Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other online communities. It’s an experiment. As an early adopter of the technologies and one of its strong proponents in the recruiting industry, I wanted to test my perceptions. What happens when you […]
Thinking About Measurement The old saw goes “What gets measured gets managed.” That is the simplest way to describe the fundamental workings of management as a discipline. Here, at the dawn of truly strategic Human Capital function, we are often surprised at the degree to which people want to argue about measurement systems. First of […]
Marketing that works well has the net effect of reversing the flow of the phone traffic and lead generation. With no clear marketing strategy, the enterprise is forced to identify every potential sales target by name and then reach out and create the relationship. The hard work of physical lead generation is a part of […]
Review: Linkup Toby Dayton is one of the industry’s least known, most effective entrepreneurs. JobDig, his first offering, is the midwest’s parallel to the Southwest’s Jobing. JobDig delivers recruitment advertising a combination of print, radio and web in Oklahoma, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota and South Dakota. Like Jobing’s Aaron Matos, Dayton understands that Recruiting […]
Razz and HRaaS | Feature It used to be easy to understand what software was. With the onslaught of marketing double talk we’re left searching for any real value. This week in our feature Razz and HRaaS, we look at the people side of enterprise software and software as a service (Saas) in the HR […]
Looks Like Training Have you seen John Sullivan’s laundry list of the dissatisfaction with Recruiting? I whittled it down to a few strokes for the folks at Glassdoor. Recruiting is broken. The failure rate (50%) leaves only one possible conclusion: Recruiters embrace the crummy quality of the profession for reasons of job security. If Recruiters […]
Some times, more of the same makes for something really different. When that happens, it is called an “emergent property” of the system in which it happened. Or, it is simply called emergence. Emergence is defined with exceptionally clear detail in the wikipedia: Emergence is the process of complex pattern formation from simpler rules. This […]
Reminder: It’s not too late to sign up for John Sumser’s webinar this Thursday. Act now. Retention I & II | Feature Retention is often seen as a panacea. Like lemmings, the vendors in our industry have latched on to the concept of retention as an alternative to solid Labor Supply Management. Like most ill […]
Razz and Harass part 2 Upon reflection, it’s really surprising that Recruiting as a Service (RaaS) hasn’t taken quick root in the culture. A service priced as a subscription, focused on helping the organization achieve specific staffing, retention and attrition targets is good for everyone. Recruiting shifts from a highly variable cost to something controlled […]
You may have noticed we just published a post about Jay Cross’s new un-book Working Smarter with an accompanying book review by Julian Seery Gude. This post marks the first of many you’ll see in the future by founding members of the HRExaminer.com Editorial Advisory Board. I’ve prepared some background on the Editorial Advisory Board […]
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