Michigan Recruiter’s Conference 2016 Takeaways
Last week the 3rd annual Michigan Recruiter’s Conference took place in Grand Rapids, MI onsite at our corporate host Amway World Headquarters. 150 Corporate Talent Acquisition Leaders and Pros...
View ArticleGreat Culture in Born from Great Leadership!
Leave Blank:Do Not Change: Your email: You know what doesn’t work but we keep hoping it might? Grassroots culture! The kind of culture where you want your employees to establish. The kind of culture...
View ArticleYour Recruitment Strategy Needs Focus!
I’ve been in Chicago a couple of times this fall. The restaurant scene in Chicago is off the charts, just like it is right now in New York, LA, etc. It’s a great time to be a person who loves food! If...
View ArticleFalling In Love With Your Job
Do you know what it felt like the last time you fell in love? I mean real love? The kind of love where you talk 42 times per day, in between text and facebook messages and feel physical pain from being...
View ArticleNotes to HR Tech Vendors – #10 – Your Real Competition
I’ve done a few presentations titled something like, “HR Tech Buyers Guide”, “How to Buy HR Tech”, etc. The presentation is designed for HR and TA practitioners to help them become better buyers of HR...
View ArticleVets, We Love You, but We Still Aren’t Hiring You!
One of the most politically correct lies that employers spout off constantly is how desperate they are to hire Veterans! There’s a reason for this. In America, we love to honor our Vets! There’s...
View ArticleHow focused Are Your Leaders In Making Your Organization Successful?
We all like to think we have a leader or two that is freaking dialed in at a level far superior to everyone else. They’re freaks. In early, usually, one of the first ones, out late, if not last. They...
View ArticleDo Your Leaders Need to be Technocrats to be Successful?
With the U.S. Presidential elections behind us, we’ll continue to see fallout for some time. Hillary Clinton was considered by many in Silicon Valley to be a “Technocrat“. What’s a technocrat you ask?...
View ArticleIt Sucks Getting Turned Down for a Promotion!
The hardest part of being a leader is promoting an employee internally when there are more than one viable candidate for the position. The fact of the matter is someone is going to get that job, and...
View ArticleHR’s “You” Problem!
Did you know 67% of second marriages fail? That seems high to me. You would think conventional wisdom would teach us that those folks failing the first time what they did wrong, and what they need to...
View ArticleThe One Conference HR Pros Need to Go to in 2017 #WorkHuman
So, I’ve been on the record that my favorite conference to attend is the HR Technology Conference. It’s my favorite because I geek out on HR and TA Tech and I’ll send three days on the expo floor...
View ArticleWhich HR Certification Should I Get? HRCI or SHRM?
I’m being put in the middle of two friends. On one side I have HRCI. I’ve known HRCI ever since I got certified in my SPHR in 2001. I trust them, they were my first professional designation. They made...
View ArticleThe Newest HR Certification on the Market! Get it Now!
If you read my post yesterday on the frustration HR pros and leaders have in deciding between getting their HRCI certification and/or their SHRM certification, you’ll see why I decided to write this!...
View ArticleYour Dreams Are Adjustable
I once wanted to be a teacher. In fact, until I was about 23 years old, I thought that was going to be my future. Then I taught and found it wasn’t for me. Not the teaching part, the public...
View ArticleThe Secret to Being Happy at Work
We’ve all been sold a really harmful lie, by a lot of people. That lie is: To be truly happy at work, you must do what you love (or some variation of the same theme). It’s complete garbage that is...
View ArticleThe 12 Steps of Recovery for Passionate Assholes
I wrote a post last week titled, “The 5 Things HR Leaders Need to Know About Developing Employees“. In that post I had a paragraph: When I was young in my career, I was very ‘passionate’. That’s what I...
View ArticleI’m Not in the ‘Love’ Business
It’s almost the end of 2016 for most people. Once Christmas hits and New Years coming a week later, it seems like most of the population just coasts through the end of the year. You know what happens...
View ArticleThe Biggest HR and TA Questions for 2017
I guess ‘biggest’ really depends on where your organization is with your HR and TA practices. My biggest might not be your biggest! I taking a run at this from the 30,000-foot view, not ground level....
View ArticleWhy do we still hate hiring older workers?
Over two years ago I wrote a post for Halogen’s Talent Space blog titled: The Gray Wave: Why Companies Refuse to Hire Older Workers. It was very popular when it launched and it still gets great traffic...
View ArticleThe Joe Biden Employee Appreciation Award
I’m sure by now most of you have seen President Obama give Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It was very moving, no matter which side of the aisle you sit: Let’s face it, being the Vice...
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