What is e-recruiting? The automation of the Recruiting process began in the early 1990s with the release of Restrac’s initial product. That process, which automates the administrative component of contemporary recruiting (sourcing, resume management, performance measurement, interview scheduling) is nearly complete after little more than a decade. Today, all sophisticated firms use automated sourcing and […]
In The Know v 2.14 Five Links About Organizational Change The Organization Is Alive From the Booz-Allen magazine, Strategy + Business. The degree to which we don’t understand our organizations can not be undertated. This rich piece describes the operation of four discrete but related systems that influence organizational behavior: the hierarchy, the network, the […]
Top 100 v1.63 RD Whitney Grit, determination and a smile go a long way towards building sustained influence. The intellects all assume that influence and smarts are somehow correlated. The truth is that it’s hard to trust someone who is busy being smart. Influence has more to do with reliability and predictability than it has […]
Review: HRNX Most terms used in HR and HR Technology are ill defined and used to grind the axe of the speaker. “Talent Management”, for example means everything from ‘succession planning’ to ‘the full complement of tools and organizational processes required to harvest the maximum value from Human Capital’. One extreme is tiny and precise […]
April 2, 2010 HRExaminer v1.13 HireVue | Review Today, I conducted yet another interview on Skype. I routinely use videoconferencing in either Skype or Google to do business outside of domestic American borders. I have not been a fan of the idea that video interview companies were going to be able to add value in […]
By John Sumser Valerie Frederickson v1.25 The Sage The amazing thing about Valerie Frederickson is that she is really easy to like and a fun conversation partner. Equally comfortable with a stuck, neurotic mid-career bureaucrat and the all-star executives she places, Frederickson is the model of grace and sophistication. She is uniquely able to tell […]
In The Know v2.13 Five Links To Expand Your View of HR (Chosen to test your assumptions and offer new models) 13 of the Brightest Tech Minds Sound Off on the Rise of the Tablet The tablet is coming. Here are some really interesting insights on the possibilities of the tablet era. The interface is […]
At the heart of good recruiting, retention based on personal desire, great customer relationships, solid team work, clear delivery of results and, increasingly, any business success, is the mastery of relationship management. Relationships are hard to develop in volume and many people take statistical shortcuts in processes that develop relationships based on the luck of […]
Top 100 v1.62: Ryan Johnson The process of trying to identify patterns of influence in the HR-Recruiting Industry has been revealing. The domain is composed of a number of subordinate silos and the totality is only loosely tied together. If you ask a Recruiter who Jay Cross or Ann Bares are, you’ll draw blank stares. […]
Addressing What Trade Show Attendees Really Want, The HR Demo Show Announces Details of Inaugural Event Out of frustration from seeing the same thing, year in and year out, the question begs “Is innovation dead in the HR trade show industry?” No, says SharedXpertise! The company today announced its latest event, which is designed to […]
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