There are a boat load of new issues to navigate in hiring and managing people in 2013. In this week’s feature, Rethinking Discrimination, Heather Bussing cruises over the legal undercurrents and offers up a 5-step guide for keeping your company off the rocky shoals of legal trouble. We wrap up this issue with new posts from Dr. Todd Dewett and John Sumser. Enjoy.
This week’s links include an a piece about the relationship between offshoring and capabilities, skills gap stuff, social recruiting, analytics and user adoption guides.
This week’s show features an interview with Heather Bussing. Heather is an Employment Lawyer and the editor of the HRExaminer’s Editorial Advisory Board. She is the least lawyerly lawyer in the industry and will give practical advice without the mumbo jumbo.
Finally, one of the video interviewing players demonstrates that they get that it has to be about more than video. Video itself is free. That means that the video interviewing players all have to scramble to identify the real value add.
“When adults have autonomy at work they might not focus on their normal tasks 100% of the time. That’s normal. Guess what? Using some of that autonomy for small doses of play at work actually facilitates productivity for most people. It represents a fun not-related-to-work break that stimulates healthy thinking.” – Todd Dewett
“As accessibility to information and data about everyone become ubiquitous, we need to rethink our approaches to equal opportunity, diversity, and discrimination.” – Heather Bussing
There’s a universe of great minds who never see the light of day in our industry because they are so busy building their companies. These are the people who hold the secrets you want to learn. The tricky part is finding them and unearthing their stories. Two weeks ago, John Sumser began a new journey to find them and bring their stories back to you.
This week’s links include an online class, two views of crowdsourcing, spreading ideas online and the industrial internet. As a bonus, there’s a pointer to the universe of Smart Dust. This edition is brought to you with one foot in the future and one foot in the past.
This week’s show features an interview with Michael Long aka the Red Recruiter. Michael is one of the few practitioners who mastered the use of employment branding in technical recruiting.
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