Social media – a topic seemingly worn threadbare by too many a washing. Are the clothes of social media losing their color or taking on the character of a well loved pair of jeans? John weighs in and then shares his experience from last week's TRULondon unconference. Does software matter anymore? Find out if, when […]
We’re at the edge of a great transformation. Recruiting Marketplaces (BountyJobs), Staffing Agency Replacements (ReadyForce), Contingency Labor Exchanges (eLance), RPOs (RiseSmart), Learning and Collaboration Platforms (Saba), Recognition Systems (Rideau), Job Boards (theLadders) and Talent Management Systems (Stepstone) are in the process of blurring familiar boundaries. These companies are building market expertise into their data processing systems.
Marc Effron joins the HRExaminer Editorial Advisory Board this week with his post on building the right capabilities. Marc is the President of the Talent Strategy Group and author of One Page Talent Management. Marc’s talent management consulting provides a highly practical, broadly informed perspective to clients like American Express, Advanced Micro Devices, Fidelity Investments, and […]
Somewhere between 120 and 200 HR, and Recruiting industry folks wedged themselves into the sub basement of the hotel in a windowless series of rooms and foyers. They consumed about 35 tracks of information from a cadre of presenters, experts, raconteurs and entrepreneurs. You could feel the passion (particularly when it was passing for real knowledge).
The tracks themselves ranged from the ridiculous to the sublime. At one end of the spectrum, old war-horses held court and opined the strong views of elders. At the other extreme were conversations that barely merited their allotted time led by the passionately uninformed.
Facebook has become the global water cooler. Tidbits of information pass themselves off as intimacy and understanding. The barrage of minutia is warm and snuggly, just like the feeling you get before you die from hypothermia. Meaningless noise, delivered with appropriate timing, passes for a deeper reality.
Our social instincts are fooled by constant stimulation. Facebook helps us maintain the illusion that obnoxious little sound bites and cleverness are a substitute for intimacy and depth. We trade bumper sticker sensibilities. We posture to make our little accomplishments seem bigger than they are.
Somehow, the constant pinpricks of awareness soothe our anxieties. We belong to the great oneness and have immediate access to transcendent experience. Abraham Maslow died a little too early; Facebook is ushering in the era of instant self actualization through marginal disclosure.
We have a double feature on HRExaminer this week. Heather Bussing writes in from #trulondon to get to the bottom line on authenticity. Mark McMillan has an equally compelling piece on the Darwinian Evolution of the Recruiter. Plus, John covers shifting trends in decentralization and the slow work movement. Read This Week's HRExaminer Magazine Does […]
Asking yourself if you are being authentic enough is like asking if your jeans make your butt look big. The questions are equally narcissistic and no one is going to tell you the truth. (By the way, transparency always makes your butt look big.)
There is a subset of the Slow Movement called Slow Work. Slow work is about finding dignity in work. It’s not about fast bucks and fancy positions.
For the next 19 years, 10,000 baby-boomers will retire each day, leading to the hackneyed conclusion – recruiting is going to get harder. That phrase should start paragraphs, not end them.
Like a movie action hero walking towards the camera and away from the blast, we are reeling from the pace of growth. One billion PCs, one trillion web pages, 6.7 Billion people, more than 305 million Americans. Everything that used to be centralized is becoming distributed.
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