All HR departments are busy. Whether the busyness is focused on the correct objectives is another question.
There is a power balance in the branding and recruiting game. When marketers, recruiters and managers forget this, things tend to turn sour.
“And as a department, as a profession and as individuals – HR is trying to chase both rabbits.” -Paul Hebert
“…commit yourself to building an HR team that spends more time with non-HR employees than HR employees.” -Dr. Todd Dewett
Over and over we set up the same dichotomy of Us v. Them. Pick your group, pick your label. Everyone else is excluded because they don’t know, don’t understand and have never been there.
I find it very hard to take the “war for talent” seriously when I see so much talent that is already on the payroll being wasted.
Failure is critical to the success and growth of our organizations. But, it is not to be taken too lightly when humans are involved.
Humans are not capital. What we call things really, really matters.
All too often, we lazily assume the data that is placed before us at work, is the real thing. It isn’t, and yet we often use that data to make decisions that affect people’s lives in work and beyond.
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