HRExaminer v5.18

In our feature this week CNET author Dennis O’Reilly shares Confessions of an HR Nightmare. Should you rewrite your social media policy because of one influential survey? Heather Bussing finds the balance between, Social Media, Fear, and Lawyers. John Sumser has questions and answers about the recruiter in your pocket in, Mobile Recruiting Rears Up. John closes out this week’s issue with Five Links: Disruption and his interview of Zahir Ladhani, Vice President Smarter Workforce, IBM. Enjoy!
 

Confessions of an HR Nightmare

Topics: Employment Branding, Engagement, HR Scoop, HRExaminer, Learning, by Dennis O'Reilly
“For more than 30 years I labored under the misapprehension that hard work, competence, and honesty were all I needed to be a model employee.”
 

Social Media, Fear & Lawyers

Should your corporate social media policy be rewritten based on ‘results’ from a buzzworthy survey that’s based on a whopping 0.02% response rate?
 

Five Links: Disruption

This week’s links are a reminder that technology is tearing its way through our universe. It happens fast, takes no prisoners and has no guaranteed winners.
 

Mobile Recruiting Rears Up

Mobile Recruiting: what’s taking so long, whose fault is it, and how can an earnest visionary speed things up.
 

HRExaminer Radio: Episode #55: Zahir Ladhani

Topics: HRExaminer Radio, John Sumser, by John Sumser
John Sumser speaks with Zahir Ladhani, Vice President Smarter Workforce, IBM.
 

HRExaminer v5.17

There’s so much crap surrounding Engagement (air quotes) that we’re featuring a new series from John Sumser about the critical thinking you’ll need to survive today’s onslaught of Engagement solutions. Read Engagement: Lies, Damn Lies and WTF Parts I and II. Victorio Milian stops by HRExaminer to talk about The Good, Bad, and Ugly: Honesty in Attracting Candidates. John Sumser has Five Links: Whose Experience? and his interview on HR Examiner Radio of Kathryn Minshew, founder of The Muse. Enjoy!
 

Engagement: Lies, Damned Lies and WTF II

The data on whether employees are engaged says that the answers are Yes, No and Sometimes.
 

Engagement: Lies, Damn Lies and WTF I

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
Crap detection and critical thinking skills are the survival techniques of the 21st century.
 

Five Links: Whose Experience?

This week: Technology is moving too fast, Google gives 20th Century resume advice, Programmers pretend they know more than they know, Buy twitter followers & Who owns the experience?