Review: SHRM Standards Development

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The SHRM initiative runs significant risk because it is not well promoted. When asked, the project principals all had high hopes for adoption of the standards, once crafted. None seemed to have any idea how that might be accomplished. “Maybe the government will adopt them as standards,” said one. With barely 30% of all HR professionals represented, SHRM will have to aggressively reach beyond its boundaries to have serious traction. It’s easy to dismiss this endeavor. HR has a number of particularly regional characteristics. It’s different between industries. The legal framework is an international maze. Who is on which side of the organizational fence is getting murkier as HROutsouricing and Recruitment Process Outsourcing take firm root. And, those definitions vary by country and region. The problems are big and the potential for dismal outcome is high.
 

The Weekly HRExaminer v1.08

February 26, 2010 HRExaminer v1.08 Last Chance to win an iPad! Reminder: Enter our Blank Slate Challenge to win an Apple iPad – submission deadline Feb 28, 2010 Five Scenarios For The Future Of Recruiting: VII. The Pandemic There are nice scenarios of the future and bleak ones. Both serve a purpose in determining what […]

Review: Monster 6Sense

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Review: Monster 6Sense As I sat through the webinar/demo of Monster’s new search product, 6sense, I kept waiting for a little kid to say “I see dead people”. That tag line, from the 1999 movie The Sixth Sense is the 44th most remembered quote from the movies (as recounted on AFI’s 100 Years .. 100 […]
 

The Weekly HRExaminer v1.07

February 19, 2010 HRExaminer v1.07 Reminder: Enter our Blank Slate Challenge to win an Apple iPad – submission deadline Feb 28, 2010 Top 25 Most Influential Online Recruiters We’ve unveiled the second in our series of lists documenting the online world’s Most Influential People in HR and its subsets. This list, the Top 25 Most […]
 

Review: MeritBuilder

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Review: MeritBuilder Lance Haun, one of our Top 100 Influencers in HR is the VP of Outreach at MeritBuilder. One of the industry’s most prolific bloggers (he and Kris Dunn are competing for the gold for blog volume), Haun is in the midst of his first experience as a member of the HR Vendor community. […]
 

The Weekly HRExaminer v1.06

February 12, 2010 HRExaminer v1.06 Reminder: Enter our Blank Slate Challenge to win an Apple iPad – submission deadline Feb 28, 2010 The New Cities of Specialization | Five Recruiting Scenarios 5: Guild Cities 2009 marked the first time in human history that more people lived in the city than on the farm. Cities are […]

Review: Cachinko

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Review: Cachinko There are number of entrants in the automated job referral business. Long gone are the days of weeding through the resumes of bosses children needing jobs. The ‘send us your friends’ resumes and win a Beamer programs disappeared in the early 00s. Really, referral means something other than it used to. The current […]
 

The Weekly HRExaminer v1.05

February 5, 2010 HRExaminer v1.05 Here’s what’s on The weekly HRExaminer The Future Matters As our world rapidly changes due to social, economic, and natural forces the demands for new thinking will spur demand for new kinds of jobs. HR and Recruiting will have to adapt. What’s the key to thriving? The next 100 years […]

Reviews: The Future

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Reviews: The Future The research for the Five Scenarios project is sponsored by Pinstripe Talent. (We could still use an additional sponsor, please check in with me). As a part of the project, I’ve been digging into lots of ideas about the coming years. Right now, there are a number of interesting books that lay […]
 

HRMarketer: Buyers’ Guide

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HRMarketer: Buyers’ Guide Aptos, California is a small beach village, just south of the college town of Santa Cruz. Nestled in a tiny valley right on the water, Aptos would be a bad place to be in a Tsunami. The valley is about three blocks wide and seven deep. It opens like an inverted funnel […]