HRExaminer v.3.45

LinkedIn Feature: Because we’re involved with LinkedIn and their network on a daily basis it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture. So all of our posts this week provide a venue to gain new perspective on this critical part of our business. We’d love to hear your reactions and ideas so please take a minute to comment on HRExaminer.com (or your social network of choice).
 

LinkedIn: How Not To Build An Ecosystem

What makes most enterprise companies successful in the 21st Century is the degree to which they can create their own walled grade (ecosystem). The more robust the internal options, the better the deal for everyone involved. But, when you go into the LinkedIn garden, all you see is LinkedIn.
 

Five LinkedIn Links

LinkedIn are on a tear. The stock price is propping up the notion that Silicon Valley IPOs are still a good idea. The company is releasing a torrent of new features and functionality. It’s hard to find a coherent critique in the flow of commentary.
 

LinkedIn: Learning Through Progressive Failure

It turns out that the people you know and love can’t really help you with your career. If you’re laid off, they’re laid off. If your job sucks, theirs does too. Your up close and personal network is riding the exact same economic wave as you are. The lot of you might help each other stay afloat but that ‘s about it.
 

Broken Linked

Topics: Heather Bussing, HRExaminer, by Heather Bussing
I expect there are many people who have lots of personal relationships that have nothing to do with work or Linkedin. This is not a problem for any of us, because we know how to find each other and ask for help if we’re looking for a job or to hire someone.
 

HRExaminer v.3.44

Enterprise Games – Merging of Video Games and Business Operations This presentation will begin on November 16, 2012 at 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time. Audience members may arrive 15 minutes in advance of this time. Webcast is on November 16, 2012 at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET. Games and game mechanics provide as powerful a model for organizing knowledge and creative work as the assembly line once did for organizing industrial and repetitive work. In this webcast presented by Michael Hugos, author of Enterprise Games, we will explore game mechanics and how they provide a powerful set of field-tested techniques and technologies for organizing, motivating and managing work as well as play. Learn how the merger of games and business operations can deliver widespread prosperity for the real-time economy we now live in. Don’t miss this informative presentation.
 

Don’t Promote, Attract

The presence of fear in promotional tools is precisely the reason that cold calls and direct marketing approaches have such low rates of closing. When you reach out cold to a prospect, your batting average falls rapidly.
 

How to Create a Great HR Data Story

Topics: Cathy Missildine, Editorial Advisory Board, by Cathy Missildine
“Data visualization has been a huge challenge for our company, many of my colleagues that focus on HR data, and for me. The problem is that HR data resides in many different places that just obtaining the data is exhausting.”– Cathy Missildine-Martin
 

Five Links: Skills Gap

Mexico Is Now A Top Producer Of Engineers But Where Are The Jobs? “President Felipe Calder on last month boasted that Mexico graduates 130,000 engineers and technicians a year from universities and specialized high schools, more than Canada, Germany or even Brazil, which has nearly twice the population of Mexico.”
 

Distractions on the Record

Topics: Heather Bussing, HR Technology, HRExaminer, by Heather Bussing
When fax, and then email, became primary business tools, the speed of written communication changed dramatically. No letters had to be mailed and delivered, no memos had to be distributed by hand. For awhile, the way to really get to someone was to fax bomb them late Friday afternoon with something that would require them to work over the weekend.