Where did all of the mechanics go? They didn’t work themselves out of a job, they were disintermediated. That is, some of their work was automated; some of it evaporated (car quality kept getting better); some went to outsourcing, some was reabsorbed by the automobile companies in their quest for revenue.
““I strongly oppose Employ Media’s history of dissembling, lack of transparency and willingness to enter into backroom deals and, am even more strongly concerned with SHRM’s inability to choose to act as a trusted referee…..due to misinformation, lack of interest etc. etc. it goes without saying that the community of legitimate job boards feels threatened by the proposed expansion of the .jobs top level domain.”
Further, I note that this is the wrong time, economically, to disrupt the job hunting process. Adding friction to job discovery, as this initiative obviously will, couldn’t be more ill timed. The last thing that global job hunters need today is more confusion in the online employment marketplace.
There’s an emerging movement. It’s something like the slow food movement as it applies to work. Slow food is an antidote to fast food. It’s a part of the Slow Movement which features websites like Slow Planet. Slow is not about doing everything at a snail’s pace; it’s about working, playing and living better by doing everything at the right speed.
What if the goal of the HR operation was to put itself out of business? Not as a way of moving on to a better type of HR but as an end in itself. Why shouldn’t HR be responsible for solving a set of problems and then closing the door?
One of the challenges of predicting the future is that something could come along to completely upset the trend. So, for example, just before the turn of the century as people were moving into urban areas and before the automobile, government statisticians empirically predicted — based on the rate of growth — that the cities would literally be buried in horse manure since the dominant form of transportation was via equine. But then the automobile came along and changed that trend line completely. There’s a joke somewhere in that pile of horse manure and government predictions, but we’ll leave it to you to dig it out for yourself.
Pretty much every HR professional I know has read, and likely has on a target with a dozen darts in it, the infamous Fast Company magazine issue with the cover story, Why We Hate HR. Published five years ago, the cover image alone is still vividly burned into my head. Pink skin tone cartoon gal […]
We’re beginning to realize that recruiting is in deep need of expanded variability. Rather than simply being a gateway between the outside world and the company, Recruiting skills can be usefully applied to the internal processes that actually make a company great. Shouldn’t every recruiter be held accountable for the transition of a new hire to successful integration? Why aren’t recruiters held accountable for the performance of the entire network of people that they hire? Why isn’t recruiting accountable for its impact on productivity?
Circus acts, self-effacing entertainment, public service and lots of chotchkes are a necessary part of the mix. But, they are not sufficient to make a coherent marketplace for HR Technology. In order for the market to improve, potential customers need a quieter more conversation friendly place to encounter suppliers.
With my degree firmly in hand, I entered the workforce in 1979. The jobs available to a middling liberal arts graduate were few and far between, I tended bar and took seasonal work as a Santa Claus. I found the early keys to my future running small camera stores in Washington, DC. To sell cameras […]
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