Thought For The Day: “Here’s the difference between so called passive and active candidates. The price of the attention of a passive candidate is higher than the price for an active candidate. (Obviously, it’s a spectrum, not a binary distinction)” Digging Into RecruitingBlogs.com v2.11 Spam Police Thinking about the value and use of attention in […]
Thought For The Day: “Sometimes, the initial fruits of success look exactly like failure.” Work Strong Peter Weddle’s blog on finding work and getting more satisfaction from it is a breath of fresh air. It’s a boomer ethic complement to Brazen Careerist. Google Page Rank Explained As social software takes full root, it’s useful to […]
Thought For The Day: “Hire slowly. Fire quickly” – Zappos McKinsey: What Matters: Organization From well outside of the bounds of conventional HR comes this McKinsey package of articles about Talent Futures. They were, you’ll remember, the source of the original “War for Talent” meme. Of particular note: The new talent imperative and Netting young employees. Portrait […]
Thought For The Day: “While the need for talent is the same all over the world, different locations are currently facing very different challenges.” 5 Steps to model successful Twitter users Find role models, look at their quantitative performance, emulate them, measure yourself. Twitter Friends Quantitative measures of your Twitter performance. Nice model for good […]
Five Things HR Can Do (March 13, 2009) The line between HR Basher and patriotic critic is lost on some. While many seasoned HR professionals are an active part of their company’s strategy design and execution, many more are not. I spoke with a colleague last night who said, there are three types of HR […]
Thought For The Day: “Immerse yourself in the data. You’ll get used to the overload and overwhelm. There’s clarity on the other side.” Social Explorer This amazing site creates detailed maps from census data. It’s a fantastic tool for figuring out the geographic location of talent pools. There are also easy to use reports. Here […]
Thought For The Day: “Invent your future. Take the long view.” Work On Stuff That Matters Tim O’Reilly keynote…45 minutes of video. Work on something that matters more than money to you – Know what you want to accomplish Create more value than you capture – Not how to capture more for yourself, how to […]
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