Experiential Marketing: Harnessing the Power of Emotion in Your Employer Brand

Putting all your eggs in one basket to connect consumers to your brand through consumer brand marketing involving celebrities or employee ‘brand ambassadors’ is not without risk.
 

HRExaminer v.3.35

Topics: Colin Kingsbury, HRExaminer, John Sumser, Weekly, by John Sumser
HR Examiner Weekly Edition v 3.35 August 31, 2012   Can Law Keep Up with Technology?Courts and legislatures are struggling to keep up with the fast pace of technology. New laws and cases are quickly outdated. Read Now » WealthHabit: New Architecture of Work VII Financial stress absorbs time and attention during the workday statistic […]
 

WealthHabit: New Architecture of Work VII

Topics: HR Technology, HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
WealthHabit: Embedded Learning and Quantification: The New Architecture of Work IV A significant portion of the workforce is underwater on their houses (11Million), behind on their monthly payments, drowning in college debt, subsidizing other family members or simply recovering from bad habits with credit cards. Financial stress absorbs time and attention during the workday (particular […]
 

The Shifting Landscape: IBM Joins Buyers’ Club

Topics: Big Data, HR Scoop, HR Technology, John Sumser, by John Sumser
The Shifting Landscape: IBM Joins Buyers’ Club I want to start by trying to enumerate my biases on this one. I’ve gotten to know the management team at Kenexa over the past couple of years at Analyst confabs and industry events. Prior to that, I was on the Board of Directors at Salary.com when we […]
 

Can Law Keep Up with Technology?

Topics: Editorial Advisory Board, Heather Bussing, HRExaminer, by Heather Bussing
Our laws are based on people, places and things. But technology and the Internet aren’t. The Internet is not a place. It’s everywhere and nowhere in particular. Digital information is not a thing. It flows in tiny packets and exists in multiple copies just to be seen and used. And people are becoming great files […]
 

Looking Beyond Degrees

Topics: Colin Kingsbury, Editorial Advisory Board, HRExaminer, by Colin Kingsbury
I’m writing this sitting on a balcony just off Bourbon Street in New Orleans, which in the middle of August is almost entirely devoid of tourists. It’s an interesting time to see it. The last time I took a vacation, my company had zero employees and only a few more customers. Seven years later, those […]
 

HRExaminer v.3.34

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, Weekly, by John Sumser
So far, our various looks at influence have had a hard time getting beyond attributes of popularity. Influence is much more than that. Sometimes, the only way to see influence is by watching the things or people that are being influenced.
 

Employment Branding in 50 Tweets

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
We asked the Twittersphere three questions about Employment Branding and got back a truck load of responses. The result? Employment Branding in 50 tweets.
 

Top 25 Trendspotters in HR

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
So far, our various looks at influence have had a hard time getting beyond attributes of popularity. Influence is much more than that. Sometimes, the only way to see influence is by watching the things or people that are being influenced. With this month’s Trendsetters list, we wanted to track how ideas move through social media, how that movement changes over time, and who are the people pushing the ideas out into the flow in HR. Read the full analysis and see who is Trendspotting in HR.
 

#60 – How to be a Free Thinker by Scott Berkun

Topics: HRExaminer, by Scott Berkun
In the same way a man can be chained to an oak tree, a mind can be chained to an assumption, a religion, a political party, or any idea of any kind. But the idea, like the tree, should not be blamed.