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Punk Rock Human Resources
I recommend that job seekers get up, get away from their computers, and connect with people in real life. Has anyone actually done this? Have you initiated a break from social media websites for an hour? A day? A week? What were your experiences? Did you come back feeling refreshed? Did...
Punk Rock HR Interview Tip: Don’t Try to Be Funny
If you want your job interview to go south in a hurry, try to be funny. There’s nothing worse than a candidate who tries to make a joke that falls flat on its face. It’s awkward for the interviewer, and more importantly, it makes the interviewee look like a chump. Naturally funny...
Last week, I wrote a very geeky post on metrics. I wanted to think about measuring social media’s impact on career websites. Out of the blue, Brian Kevin Johnston suggested that we measure passion. He capitalized it and added an exclamation mark. PASSION!! My first reaction was strong. I’m a cynic and a...
Performance Reviews & Assessments
It’s the time of year when many of you are writing your self-assessments and participating in annual reviews. Some of you will hear bad news. You didn’t meet expectations. You failed to achieve your professional goals. You won’t qualify for a merit increase, and let’s be honest: most people see their...
Monday Morning HR Humor: Can A Monkey Do My Job?
The answer is yes according to this video. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, and I have all kinds of questions. When did we stop putting monkeys to work? Exactly how are monkeys a communist threat? When did we have button-pushing factories? Will they hire my brother? The past is...
Sunday HR Shout Out: Mike VanderVort
If there’s someone who deserves some props, this week, it’s Mike VanderVort. HR professional. Awesome blogger with a great story to tell. Charitable. Mike is the kind of guy who works hard, doesn’t take himself too seriously, and prefers to champion other people over himself. He has no ego. When I first...
The Staffing Advisor
Don’t Even Think About Filling a Job You Don’t Understand
In this hyper-competitive world, you already have plenty of problems to contend with, so you certainly don’t have time for self-inflicted wounds. One of the most expensive self-inflicted wounds is trying to fill a position without first deeply understanding it. Smaller organizations are filled with one-of-a-kind jobs – departments are often small, responsibilities large, and often only a...
The Job Market Is a Big Game of Musical Chairs
Robust economic growth and job creation is a wonderful thing, but 2010 is not very likely to look that way. Yet I still firmly believe (and wrote in our job seeker blog) that 2010 looks good for job seekers in the Washington DC metropolitan area and probably in lots of other areas. Why? Churn. ...
Social Media Only Makes Recruiting Fundamentals More Important
Every day I see more recruiters starting to engage with social media. Understanding social media is no longer optional for recruiting professionals, your career will suffer if you are a Twidiot. But one of the most common mistakes I see from newbies is to assume the social media platforms are a strategy, or that somehow just using...
Who Else is Heading for the Door?
When a top executive leaves an organization, everyone scrambles to fill that key vacancy. But in the hurry to do that, a far bigger turnover problem is often overlooked. When a key executive leaves, everyone who reported to that executive should be considered a “flight risk” – because the second tier of managers are...
Surveys indicate that 2010 is going to be a year filled with employee turnover. And that is a great gift to every manager who is still not managing performance tightly. Every time an average employee resigns, you have a chance to rethink who should be in the job, to upgrade the caliber of your team,...
2009 was a tough year to be running a company, yet there were so many blessings, and so much to be grateful for. Naturally, I’m grateful to my internal team here at Staffing Advisors who took the recession in stride and kept thinking of new ways to do more with less. This was a year of...
Bayt.com Blog
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That’s what can potentially be bought and sold on the new state-of-the-art Classifieds site Bayt.com just launched. Be specific? Let your imagination run riot and that’s how specific we can be. Fancy vintage cars from the 1920s, fur coats, limited edition books, collectors items, and even really useful stuff like...
Where does internet usage stand in the Middle East today?
While the world average internet penetration rate stands at 25.6% today( according to the World Internet Statistics Website- September 2009), the Middle East scores a bit higher- at 28.3 % following elevated rates in Latin America, Europe, Oceana/ Australia with North American topping the list (74.2% penetration). The past decade...
Question from Job Seeker: I have been a full-timer accountant with my company (in Egypt) for over 10 years now and I would very much like to pursue a MBA. My question to you Bayt Guru is: do you think pursuing a MBA at my age (45) is feasible...
Career UnCovered: Tony Azzi, General Manager of Logicom, KSA
Biography Tony grew up in Beirut, Lebanon and graduated from Université Saint Joseph with a BS in Business Computer followed by a MBA. Prior to his position as General Manager, Toni held the role of Business Development Manager with Logicom Beirut for 4 years before moving to KSA- Toni has...
The “Most Attractive Country/ Industry” Award goes to?
Part of “the Middle East Job Index Survey“ consists of identifying which countries and industries are most attractive to professionals, from an employer’s point of view. Below are key findings from Bayt.com worth mulling over: Most Attractive Countries of Residence? - 43% of total respondents believe their country of residence is either...
TalentedApps
I bristled momentarily when the Sensai told my son and the other 4-6 year old girls and boys to line up in ranked order. Flashbacks of painful ranking exercises clouded my mind. Recent customer meetings in which talent leaders voiced their distaste for such practices echoed. I was temporarily outraged...
I hear a lot of people talking about their Talent strategy in a way that makes me think that they might be missing the big picture. A good example is the current focus on Performance Management solutions. Conversations often go something like this HR group: Our talent strategy is to have 100% participation...
When the golden rule doesn’t work
I’ve come to realize that I have been unintentionally misled as far as the golden rule is concerned. It’s not that the golden rule is a bad idea, in general treating others how you want to be treated is better than intentionally treating them how you don’t. but… it still can set you...
OK, here’s how it happened: Somehow, Meg suckered me into going to TedActive (read: Meg generously offered to take me with her after busting her butt to apply and get accepted). Then, she dared me to submit a TedYou talk (read: Meg inspired me to show some balls and come up...
Do you share your opinions freely?
I had the opportunity to attend a leadership training this week. A lot of concepts were discussed, but one that got me thinking was about how important it is for a leader to create healthy debate in their organization. Not that you want to always be disagreeing or even looking to...
The Stay Warm Carnival of HR is up!
Go check out the new Carnival of HR on Lisa Rosendahl’s blog. Lisa has gathered together 35 top posts and interspersed tips on staying warm in the frigid Minnesota winter. Lisa introduces each submission with a brief description to help you decide if you want to read it. Some notable posts...
Inflexion Point
Like most detox programs, this one was not initially my choice. No, I was not dragged away from my laptop by white-clad brutes who strong armed me into a secure but nondescript van. Nor was I happily driven out to the country, realizing (only too late) that this wasn’t the...
Moving is often cited as one of the most stressful events you’ll face (just behind death and divorce). It can be messy, is often driven by the actions of only one family member and is a very costly endeavor. Having just completed the fifteenth (and longest) move of my adult life,...
Rose Kovach’s journey was difficult from the start. She was born in 1916 to immigrant parents who settled in a suburb of Milwaukee. Her childhood was tumultuous. At the age of 14, Rose was forced to testify that her mother’s murder of her father was in self-defense. Rose knew otherwise. Rose...
It’s that time of year when we reflect on the past and revise our goals for the future. For many, January 1st represents an opportunity to break free of many of the challenges in our personal and professional lives. After perusing a number of articles describing the most successful techniques...
Although I’m a cynic at times, I try to find irony and humor in a lot these days and it doesn’t take much to make me smile. If you’ve met me (and many of you have), I probably drink more than you’d expect, stay up later than I should and...
The December Leadership Development Carnival
Let me begin with a “thank you” to your usual host - the illustrious Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership - for allowing Inflexion Point to serve as guest host for the December Leadership Development Carnival. I’m also happy to unveil a brand new logo, a wonderment that saved me hours...
Lisa Rosendahl
Fistful of Talent and HR Capitalist Power Rankings
Our friends at Fistful of Talent and HR Capitalist, published their February Talent Management Blog Power Rankings and believe it or not, this is the sixth round. Yes, it's the 6th version and I still look forward to it each and every time! When I scan the list, I am honored to be included amongst people...
HR Carnival Super Bowl Edition
The HR Carnival is hosted this time by Steve Boese over at Steve's HR Technology Journal, where he takes on HR Technology, teaching and a little barbecue. Little is an understatment as this guy does BBQ like no other - with passion. Steve was one of the first people I met in Twitter...
Have You Checked Your Credibility Lately?
Two things I've got on my mind lately are writing and credibility. I"ll take up writing and the anti-writing demon I'm reading about in a separate post. But I do want to toss out some thoughts about credibility. When was the last time you were asked to decide a black and white issue? Keep thinking...
I had a phone call yesterday with someone I was talking with for the first time. After getting to know each other a little, the conversation turned to me and the blog. Seems as though he had heard some pretty positive things about me and came here, to the blog, to check me out. He read through posts from the...
Many Hands Make the Load Lighter
Are you up for a challenge? Mike VanDervort challenged all of us to put our skills to good use by vetting the charities raising money for Haiti and I went right to my one source for unique ideas, Cool Mom Picks, and they delivered. Although the company below is not a charity, they...
Dan Schawbel knows branding. And I don't. That's why he has a personal branding magazine. And I don't. Yet he asked me to submit an article to the February issue of his magazine. And I did. And it's out now. Personal Branding Magazine (paid subscription) is about becoming so important to your...
HR Morning
Putting benefits jargon into employees’ language
It’s no surprise that many employees find benefits concepts and terms hard to understand. After all, there’s a lot of jargon and alphabet soup to decode — HSA, 401(k), FSA, EAP, etc. Here are four communication strategies that’ll help employees decode benefits info: Simplify words and images. Image you’re talking to...
Competition for IT talent to heat up in 2010
With the economy starting to rebound, competition for talent could heat up. Your company’s IT department could feel the biggest impact. Nearly one-third (32%) of IT employers plan to increase hiring this year, according to a recent CareerBuilder survey. That could cause retention difficulties as IT staffers weigh offers from...
Our favorite Web sites: Fight back against bullying
When over 30 million people say they’ve been bullied at work — as was the case in a recent poll — you can be sure someone’s going to start a Web site devoted to figuratively kicking the bullies in the shins. The site is called kickbully.com. Let’s start by quoting...
Obama’s budget: 6 big changes for HR
A few surprises for employers are lurking in the President’s newly released Fiscal Year 2011 budget proposal. Here’s a look at six that affect HR and Payroll: Extend COBRA health insurance premium assistance. The proposal would extend the eligibility period by allowing qualifying individuals who suffer an involuntary termination prior to 1/1/11...
Writing a social network policy? Read some examples
Here are some examples of employers’ policies you can read when you’re deciding what, if anything, to include in a policy about employees’ use of Facebook, Twitter and blogs. Corporate compliance and ethics expert Doug Glanville has collected 144 examples of employers’ social networking policies. You can read them here. The...
Security issues threaten understaffed IT departments
Companies are learning to do more with less in all areas, and that includes IT. But a recent study warns businesses about the security dangers that crop up when departments are understaffed. According to a survey by security software developer Symantec, half of IT managers say they don’t have enough...
The HR Store
From a reader:I came across your blog while searching for some info. Really must appreciate your efforts in answering our queries.I’m writing to you to seek your advice on a job offer.I’ve been working for 4 years with an IT company that’s in another city. I‘ve been in search of...
This one's hilarious! Couldnt help but place it on the blog. Should be labelled under, "What not to do with a Twitter account?"PS: Click on the image for a better view....
Few months back, I had started the ‘Candidate Tip Series’ with the intention to answer hiring related questions from readers. The series was introduced in an attempt to avoid redundancy in replies.Further, I tweet these tips on my twitter account too using #candidatetip. If you are a candidate, hope this...
Wishing everyone in India a Happy Republic Day! ...
Recruiter mails offer letter to official email ID!
From a reader:I had interviewed a couple of weeks back and got through after multiple rounds of interview. Prior to the start of the interview process I had filled out a ‘pre-interview’ form that was given to me by the recruiter. In the contact details part of the form, I...
Should I hire external interviewers?
From a reader, based on a previous post here.I have a question that’s in context to an earlier post on getting interviewed by a younger person. I’m the only HR person at a startup that has fourteen employees. We currently don’t have interviewers within the startup for specific skills. We...
HR Transformer Blog
HR Benchmarks – A Government Health Warning
Acccording to the UK Government benchmarking report, in the UK the mean ratio of employees to HR staff is 1 to 50. The report raises a number of questions about the future of HR in the UK Public Sector. Related posts:How to Lead Change by Example – 5 Tips for...
HR Social Networks – UK Trends
An article about how HR rate as Social Networkers, including a report from CHA "Conversation at your fingertips - How HR profressionals score as social networkers" Related posts:Future Trends in HR Operating Models (Part 1) Creating the HR Operating Model for the next generation. Presentation...Future Trends in HR Operating Models (Part...
How to Lead Change by Example – 5 Tips for HR Professionals
An article by Andrew Spence about how to lead change by example, with practical advice for HR professionals. Originally published by Strategic HR Review. Related posts:Future Trends in HR Operating Models (Part 2) Creating the HR Operating Model for the next generation. Presentation...HR Benchmarks – A Government Health Warning Acccording...
Do you need a HR background to be a successful HR Director?
General Motors have appointed Mary Barra as new Head of Human Resources (see article in ‘Workforce’ – General Motors Shakes Up HR Leadership) Mary does not have a HR background, however has been a top executive with an engineering background. This has raised the question, “Do you think someone with a...
Future Trends in HR Operating Models (Part 2)
Creating the HR Operating Model for the next generation. Presentation given at EMRG BPO Conference June 23rd 2009, London by Andrew Spence Glass Bead Consulting. Related posts:Future Trends in HR Operating Models (Part 1) Creating the HR Operating Model for the next generation. Presentation...Do you need a HR background to...
Future Trends in HR Operating Models (Part 1)
Creating the HR Operating Model for the next generation. Presentation given at EMRG BPO Conference June 23rd 2009, London by Andrew Spence Glass Bead Consulting. Related posts:Future Trends in HR Operating Models (Part 2) Creating the HR Operating Model for the next generation. Presentation...HR Social Networks – UK Trends An...
Profitability Through Human Capital
Can You Train Your Employees to Solve Problems?
Over the last week I have had some very interesting interactions in the B2B environment involving our company. It is a New Year and part of our company's strategy is to be BOLD. (See Barbara A. Hughes, Intellectual Capital Consulting's Co-Founder, first blog on the subject). ...
Change, Change Change....Change is Brewing!
Since the New Year began, we have visited several of our clients. The one thing they all have in common is a MAJOR change:1) One company is dramatically changing their strategy2) Another company is going through a transformation, executing strategy that necessitates a change in culture, systems, and structure.3) Another...
What is Your Company's "It's My Pleasure?"
Over the last week I had the opportunity to present to the SHRM-Atlanta new Perimeter GEM. It was a great experience. The topic was "Leading Companies the Engaged Way." Lots of good discussion was sparked with attendees. We began discussing the 5 enablers that drive business outcomes: Strategy, Leadership, Culture,...
My inbox is full of information about employee engagement. I have several interesting conversations over the last week regarding employee engagement and what that means post the Great Recession.Saturday, I had a great lunch with some really smart, savvy HR professionals. We discussed how we all felt the...
Corporate Culture for Sale, by Owner
I just read an interesting article in the January 11, 2010 Businessweek, titled, "Zappos Retails its Culture." Of course, that got my attention. I am very skeptical on how you can sell workshops and seminars on how to recreate the Zappos culture. I believe you can share the methodology, values,...
A New Year's Resolution for HR Volume 2
Last year when I wrote the first New Year's Resolution for HR, our country was in a very uncertain, unprecedented place. This year, we seem to be moving slowly out of that place. I still believe the resolutions for HR from 2009 still hold for 2010: (and beyond)1) Are there...
The Talent Buzz
With Monster.com controlling 1/3 of online job postings, they announced their eating one of two main competitors, HotJobs. The deal is expected to close the 3rd quarter of this year. Monster also plans on doubling the number of newspapers that it works with to about 1,000 for online job postings and...
He thought (and hoped) it was just a bad dream. Little Johnny just wanted to find a job, but he got lost in a universe cluttered with a million new job boards. He woke up, it wasn’t just a dream, as 25,000 will go live this week. While I have never claimed...
2010 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For
The 2010 Fortune 100 best companies to work list is here, and most are hiring. How prevalent is social media becoming with these 100 companies? Nearly 40% contain links to groups, pages, and channels to connect on. Check out KPMG’s branded YouTube channel as an example. Here are some additional stats...
It’s that time of year again - where the top job boards are announced. It’s the annual user’s choice awards, where both recruiters and job seekers pick the top job sites on the web. Each year, WEDDLE’s conducts a year-long ballot of recruiters and job seekers to determine which employment related...
TweetDeck and TwitJobSearch Launch JobDeck
Announced early this morning for companies and job seekers leveraging social media, TweetDeck and TwitJobSearch have teamed up to provide a dedicated job seeker platform - JobDeck. This enables users to leverage the power of social media in job hunting including, searching for jobs, tracking the latest trends in job hunting,...
The New Standard in Split Recruiting
A few weeks ago we highlighted the “Top 7 Mobile Recruiting Apps for 2010“. One of those apps, The Hire Syndicate is making waves with the future of split recruiting. I had an opportunity to connect with recruiting veteran Allen Ackerman, The Hire Syndicate’s Founder and CEO, to discuss the technology...
Cheezhead Recruiting News and Opinion
By Joel Cheesman - Before Twitter and Facebook, blogging was the quickest and cheapest way to create Brand You. So, when launching HRSEO in 2005, it was a no-brainer to blog in order to do those things, as well as create a positive image and maybe drive a sale or...
By Vanessa Dennis - Jobvite, provider of next-generation recruitment solutions, has completed Series B financing totaling $8.25 million. The round was led by ATA Ventures, a new investor. According to a press release, CMEA Capital, who led Jobvite’s Series A financing, also participated in this round. Jobvite secured $7.2 million...
taleo’s new vue on interviewing
Taleo has teamed up with HireVue to offer the industry's first pre-integrated video interviewing solution for use with Taleo Enterprise....
not your father’s recruiting conference
By John Sumser - On September 23 and 24, I'm going to be in Toronto for the second annual Recruitfest. It's the RecruitingBlogs.com conference event. It's unlike any other get together in the HR - Recruiting - Talent Development industry. A regular review of the Recruitfest Facebook page will give...
monster gov. solutions to help hire 270K workers
Monster Government Solutions has teamed up with the Partnership for Public Service to help federal agencies recruit qualified candidates....
ResuWe is a new free site that allows users to quickly reformat, restructure and optimize their resume simply by uploading a current version of the document....
HRM Today Featured Posts
Survey: How Customer-Focused Is Your Organization?
i4cp research has not only shown that having a customer-focused workforce is the most important issue facing companies in 2010, but that high-performance organizations are more customer-focused than others. But what practices separate these firms from the rest? What workforce strategies are companies taking to make ...
i4cp Awards FedEx Express with Its 2010 Productivity Pioneer Award
FedEx Express (NYSE:FDX) was awarded the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) 2010 Productivity Pioneer Award today during a presentation at i4cp’s 38th Annual Member Conference. This award is presented annually to an i4cp member company that has demonstrated unique and successful programs to increase workforce productivity within their organization. Dennis...
Podcast: Multi-Generational Workforce
A couple of weeks ago, my buddy Chris Ferdinandi over at Renegade HR and I talked about multi-generational workforces and what they mean to employers for his podcast (one of the few I actually listen to). Want to have a listen? Of course you do: Listen Here So what are always my...
Twitter: A Learning Tool? Whatever…
Learning with a Bird? There are worlds of research related to how we learn. This research and opinion can even be broken down by groups, individuals and organizations to differences in culture, geographic location and how learning is facilitated. One technology that can help bring all these elusively segregated items together...
White Paper: 3 Reasons Virtual Teams Fail- and How To See it Coming by Wayne Turmel
Ten years ago – heck, five years ago – few people worked on teams with geographically dispersed members. Today, this is very common. Every manager needs or will need to learn how to manage and inspire team members they regularly see “live.” Pal and witty guy Wayne Turmel (a.k.a. The Crank...
How Loyal Are Your High Performers?
If you are currently employed, how are you feeling about your company today? Perhaps resentful of actions taken during the recession and the impact on you and colleagues? Perhaps guilty about those reactions? You’re not alone. The Wall Street Journal recently profiled top talent across Europe, finding: “Top talent across all...