Employee Privacy 3 – Social Media

Topics: Editorial Advisory Board, Heather Bussing, HRExaminer, by Heather Bussing
Heather wraps up her three-part series on employee privacy with social media and the legal rights of both the company and employee. Who owns social media accounts and content? What about trade secrets or defamation? This post will ground you in the issues.
 

Employee Privacy 2 – When It’s Personal

Topics: Editorial Advisory Board, Heather Bussing, HRExaminer, by Heather Bussing
Heather talks more about where Privacy rights come from and different kinds of laws. Before digging into employees’ personal lives, even if the employer wants or “needs” to know, it is important to consider the whole picture and the interests involved. When in doubt, stay out.
 

Employee Privacy-What Can Employers Monitor?

Topics: Editorial Advisory Board, Heather Bussing, HRExaminer, by Heather Bussing
Heather Bussing covers a wide range of employee privacy issues in this week’s three-part series on employee privacy. Heather begins by discussing employer spying.
 

Workforce analytics: What is there to get?

Topics: Editorial Advisory Board, HRExaminer, Kelly Cartwright, by Kelly Cartwright
Many organizations are making incremental advances with workforce analytics to solve specific challenges, but they may not have the resources or universal mandate to make it priority.
 

HRExaminer v2.38

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, Weekly, by John Sumser
Hiring Manager Problems Require Therapy by William Uranga Does your recruiter have a challenging hiring manager? I'm not talking about a difficult search - but client management problems. Most managers operate in a survival-mode; they are hiring to solve a problem, not necessarily to build a world-class team. Being stuck in a downward cycle of […]
 

Hiring Manager Problems Require Therapy

Topics: Editorial Advisory Board, HRExaminer, William Uranga, by William Uranga
Does your recruiter have a challenging hiring manager? Note that I’m not talking about a difficult search – but client management problems. Most managers operate in a survival-mode; they are hiring to solve a problem, not necessarily to build a world-class team. Being stuck in a downward cycle of frustration, complaints, and no future change in sight, may be sign that “therapy” is in order.
 

Moneyball

Topics: HR Technology, HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, Reviews, by John Sumser
Seven years ago, this review appeared in the pages of the Electronic Recruiting News. It’s reprinted in honor of the final arrival of the movie. In the intervening years, some elements of the HR and Recruiting world have paid attention and begun to use metrics to figure out hiring problems. It’s not another exercise in […]
 

HRExaminer v2.37

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, Weekly, by John Sumser
Employment Law Blog Carnival with Heather Bussing This week we hosted the Employment Law Blog Carnival - a compilation of fourteen articles that answer questions like: Can you discipline someone (or be disciplined) for a Facebook post? Can you refuse to hire someone because she is pregnant? What should you think about when terminating an […]
 

Recruiting Is Local

I don’t think much of best practices and big generalizations about our profession. Recruiting practices that work famously at Google are recipes for disaster in a factory near Macon, Ga. What works as personality assessment in Minneapolis is downright dumb in Baton Rouge.
 

Customer Bonding—Retain More Customers Longer

Topics: HRExaminer, by Ed Goodwin
This is a guest post from Ed Goodwin. Ed Goodwin is Managing Partner of Demand Facts Inc, a Massachusetts-based consulting practice he founded in 2000. Ed has over 30 years of hands-on experience providing marketing and customer research & analysis solutions for leading providers in several industries. During the past 10 years, Ed has specialized […]