Surprise! You’re an HR Manager! Now what?
It’s graduation season and soon many new HR brothers and sisters will be entering into their first real HR gigs. Many will be titled, “HR Manager”, even without one day of experience. That’s because...
View ArticleHR’s Work Uniform
I got put on to an article recently about a female Art Director who decided to where the exact same outfit to work everyday. She’s been doing it for the last three years: “I have no clue how the idea...
View ArticleHow Do You Turn Around a Crappy Employment Brand?
I get two questions more than any others since I started blogging in HR and Talent over six years ago: 1. What ATS do you use? 2. How can we turn around our bad employment brand? (You can also replace...
View ArticleLadies, would you prefer not negotiating your salary?
An article recently written on NPR speaks to a ‘new’ trend in organizational compensation. What’s that trend? Apparently, companies are now not negotiating new hire or promotional salaries....
View ArticleNew Money in HR
My wife and I got to spend some time in the Cayman Islands this past week. It was great! I highly recommend going if you have the means. You know what I saw a lot of in Cayman? New money! New money is...
View ArticleYou’ll Never Forget Your First Time
I was twenty-six years old. At the time, I was living in Michigan and working in my first job right out of college. I had been doing pretty well for myself and began moving up in the company. I had...
View ArticleThe New HR Math
It all started with a great premise: Let’s teach kids an easier way to understand math so they won’t end up hating it. We can all buy into that, right!? What came out was a classic organizational...
View ArticleThere’s Collateral Damage in Leadership
You know what none of the great leadership speakers, gurus, TEDx speakers, etc., will tell you about leadership? Sometimes in leadership, even the best, greatest, visionaries, have to do things they...
View ArticleThe Open Office Terrorists
So, how’s that new open office plan treating you!? A recent study out says that it takes a normal person roughly 37 seconds to figure out working in an open office environment is going to suck! I mean,...
View ArticleThe Public Education Summer Vacation Scam
In about 2 weeks my 3 sons will be off of school for the summer. That means my wife will lose her mind for the next 12 weeks as she has 3 smelly bodies running in and out of the house all day, lying...
View ArticleThe Path to Becoming a Highly Selective Employer
We all think it, don’t we? We all want to believe in this notion that we only hire the best and brightest. We only hire quality. We are ‘highly’ selective. We’ll show our executives really cool data...
View ArticleThe Secret to Employee Retention
What is the one thing that employees hate more than anything else? Change. Bar none, ‘change’ would rank as the most disliked thing that a company can do to employees. I know, I know, all of you...
View ArticleSackett’s Guide to SHRM 2015 #shrm15
It’s that time of year when HR freaks from all over the world begin planning out their annual pilgrimage to the SHRM National Conference. The 2015 SHRM conference is being held in Las Vegas, which...
View ArticleThe Biggest Lie HR Tells Candidates
No one ever wants to admit this but it can be really intimidating working with someone who is way smarter and more talented than you. This is the basis for the biggest lie HR tells candidates. You are...
View ArticleThe First Question HR Needs To Ask
I love going out and speaking and meeting with HR and Talent pros across the world (I can say ‘world’ now because I’ve spoken in Canada and the Cayman Islands, which technically makes me an...
View ArticleWhat Not To Eat: Work Edition
We are constantly bombarded in the media about what we should be eating and what we shouldn’t be eating. Just last week the FDA came out with it’s new ban on Transfats starting in 2018. While this is...
View ArticleDo Demotions Work?
Quietly, Brian Williams returned to NBC last week. Not in his usual spot of nightly news anchor, but in a demoted spot, for less pay: The embattled former NBC Nightly News anchor has been demoted and...
View ArticleThe #1 Way to Communicate Success of a HR Change!
Adobe recently changed their annual performance review process of the traditional once-per-year review to a more modern design of having frequent feedback throughout the year: So, based in part on...
View ArticleLive From #SHRM15 – Everyone Wants Priority Status
Next week I’ll be speaking at SHRM’s Annual National Conference in Las Vegas with my good friend Kris Dunn. Come check us out! Our session is titled: We’re Bringing Techy Back! It’s on Monday, June...
View ArticleNo One is Going to Remember How Much Money You Saved!
When I first started my career in HR on the corporate side of the fence I was always very concerned about my budget. I spent a long time making sure I developed a good budget and I worked even harder...
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