Would You Be Willing To Pay For Interview Feedback?
I get my ideas in the shower. I have a busy life, so it seems like my down time is that solid 5 to 10 minutes I get in the shower. I usually shower twice a day—once first thing in the morning, then...
View ArticleWould You Be Willing To Pay For Interview Feedback – Take 2
“I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.” – Howard Marks Yesterday I wrote a post called Would You Be Willing To Pay For Interview Feedback that caused some...
View ArticleRecruiting is a Team Sport
I was recently listening to one of my favorite podcasts, HR Happy Hour, with Steve Boese and Trish McFarland, with their guest Daniel Chait, the CEO of Greenhouse. Greenhouse is the one the hottest ATS...
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What if it’s impossible to fix the Gender Wage Gap?
I love the HR and Talent data analytics platform Visier and have been following them for years. Recently, Visier released a study called the Visier Insight’s Report: Gender Equity that I found...
View ArticleHow To Build a Dream Team at Work
If you pulled up any sports-related website or watched any sports news show on TV in the past few days you know that NBA player Kevin Durant left Oklahoma City Thunder and accepted a free agent offer...
View Article#DisruptHR – Failure is the New Black
I’ve been fairly vocal over how I feel about the concept of welcoming failure into your life. It’s kind of like welcoming heroin into your life. It feels great when you first do it, then it quickly...
View ArticlePokemon Go Your Employees To Better Health
I hate posts that just comment on the hottest thing going on in the world. Here’s the thing, I’m the last guy you want to hear some commentary on Black Lives Matter! So, you get Pokemon Go commentary...
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The True Cost of a Bad Hire
If there is one constant in HR and Recruiting it is the fact that no one will ever agree on how much a bad hire costs an organization! Never! It doesn’t matter how much time you put into coming up...
View ArticleTelling Your Executives The Truth Isn’t Courageous
If I have to listen to one more leadership guru tell hard working people they need to be more courageous, I’m going to walk up on stage and courageously punch that person in the face! There’s a reason...
View ArticleThe Rooney Rules Killed NFL Diversity Hiring
What the heck is the Rooney Rule? “The Rooney Rule is a National Football League policy that requires league teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs....
View ArticleThe First Sign You Suck at Hiring!
Hiring people to work for you directly is probably the single hardest thing you’ll ever have to do as a manager of people. To be fair, most people are average at hiring, some are flat out kill and...
View ArticleI’m a Jealous Asshole.
Don’t blow out someone else’s candle to make yours brighter. – Chelsea Handler I had someone close to me tell me recently they were jealous of me. It was hard for them to do, I know. It always hard to...
View ArticleGreat Talent Supports Great Talent
Too often leaders put up with a great talent who’s shitty to other employees. The belief is that because the employee is so talented we should be willing to put up with how they treat others. It...
View ArticleHow the Largest Company in the World does Employment Branding!
Everyone loves to dump on Walmart. They’ve done enough in their past to make it easy, but I love to tell people working in HR or TA at Walmart is probably the toughest HR or TA gig on the planet! Why?...
View ArticleHR Pros – Stop it! Facts Really Don’t Matter
If I know one thing in life, it’s that HR Pros LOVE facts! We are the Queens and Kings of CYA, and nothing covers your backside better than a whole bunch of facts written down on a form, with copies of...
View ArticleWant to live like a rock star? Move to Detroit!
Glassdoor recently published a list of the Top 25 Cities where your pay will go the furthest. Who topped the list!? Yep, it’s DETROIT! GD found that the Cost of Living ratio in Detroit is 50%! That...
View ArticleThe Cost of a New Hire is $1000-$5000!?
Ryan Holmes, the CEO at HootSuite, recently posted an article over at LinkedIn. Ryan is, of course, an “Influencer” for LinkedIn, because he’s a CEO and because he works for a cool brand like...
View ArticleHow an HR Leader Would Help Trump Get Better
By now, if you didn’t see the debates live, you’ve heard that Trump, for the most part, was unprepared and got beat pretty good by Hillary. (BTW – the media, and Clinton’s marketing machine have...
View ArticleCutting Corners Equals Better Performance
So, there’s this famous behavioral learning study that gets performed over and over by various researchers. It’s basically the lever study in which if you learn to pull the lever something good...
View Article5 Steps to Becoming the Most Liked HR Pro Ever!
The old adage “I’d rather be respected than liked” was made up by people who didn’t have any friends! And it’s been perpetuated for centuries by HR Pros who didn’t think it was professional to have...
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