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Recruiting and Staffing

8 Questions About Your Hiring Process

by on Jun 30, 2010, 1:35 PM  |  2 Comments
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What is the most important factor in successfully recruiting top candidates? If you said things like salary, benefits, or the economy, you’d be wrong.

It’s your organizational culture. I have a longer article in the upcoming Journal of Corporate Recruiting Leadership about the role of organizational culture in the hiring process. To give you a taste of it here … let me first say that when you start to throw around terms like “organizational culture” you may think that it’s academic, or that it’s abstract. It’s not.

How a company approaches the recruiting process and treats candidates during that process says a great deal about the culture and, in turn, reinforces the culture. For example, how a company treats candidates during the recruiting process teaches those candidates a great deal about how to succeed in that company. Read more…

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SHRM San Diego, Day 3: Military Help, a Keynote Hint, and Prepping for Vegas

by on Jun 30, 2010, 11:01 AM  |  7 Comments
From the HR blog at TLNT.

As SHRM’s 62nd Annual Conference & Exhibition winds down today in San Diego, here are a few wrap-up thoughts and observations as everyone tries to recover and head home for the long Fourth of July weekend:

  • How to define SHRM San Diego? As an attendee of a half dozen SHRM annual conferences, I’ve seen the ups and downs, good speakers and bad, smart sessions and petty politics. From the monsoonal-like rains in Washington to the “June Gloom” this year in San Diego, I think I’ve seen it all.

So, how would I describe this year’s conference? Overall, the vibe was pretty good. People were positive, upbeat, happy to be attending. Yes, you can say that about a lot of SHRM conferences, but there was less of the wild rush for swag in the exhibit hall and overall party atmosphere, and, more of a sense of seriousness about hitting the educational sessions and getting exposed to some smart thinking. Read more…

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Benefits, HR Basics

Survey: PTO Bank Systems Help to Attract Top Talent

by on Jun 30, 2010, 9:00 AM  |  No comments yet
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I’ve had a lot of jobs and worked for a lot of companies in a number different places, and if there’s one thing I’ve found, it’s this: I like companies that provide PTO instead of just giving you traditional days off.

And according to a new survey from WorldatWork, the global human resources association that focuses on compensation, benefits, work-life and integrated total rewards issues, I’m not the only one who feels this way.

That survey (Paid Time Off Programs and Practices) is being presented to a congressional hearing today, and it shows that paid time off bank (PTO) systems are growing in acceptance, with 46 percent of organizations using them compared to a traditional vacation and sick days system. Although traditional systems continues to be used by the majority of organizations (54 percent in 2010), the use of PTO banks has grown dramatically from 19 percent of organizations in 2002, to 37 percent in 2006, to the current 46 percent. Read more…

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SHRM San Diego, Day 2: Full Sessions, a Happy Vibe, and Ted Kennedy Jr.

by on Jun 29, 2010, 11:35 AM  |  3 Comments
From the HR blog at TLNT.

Here’s a question I get a lot after attending a conference, and it is one you probably get too: How was it?

Last year after SHRM New Orleans, the answer was hard to give. That’s because we were in the middle of the Great Recession, the mood was pretty somber, and there were only around 7,000 actual SHRM attendees compared to 11,000 plus in Chicago 2008, and the more than 13,000 who were in Las Vegas back in 2007.

As much as I love New Orleans, the 2009 SHRM annual conference there was a tough one (although interestingly enough, exhibitors raved about the quality of the contacts they made there). That’s not the case this year in San Diego. Read more…

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HR Technology

Budget Cuts in 2010? Maybe, But Really Not in Talent Management Systems

by on Jun 29, 2010, 10:55 AM  |  1 comment
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You know that a lot of things have changed because of the recession, but here’s another one you may not have thought of — how talent management systems have taken on a “must have” status for many HR professionals.

This insight comes courtesy of the 13th annual Towers Watson HR Service Delivery survey that polled HR and HR information technology executives from more than 450 organizations for their insight on topics and trends impacting the year ahead.

According to the study, HR departments today are more confident than ever in the value and efficiencies made possible through enhanced talent management systems. In fact, some 42 percent of the companies surveyed listed “talent/performance systems” as one of their top three HR service delivery issues for 2010. Towers Watson says that this was not only the most frequently selected issue among respondents, but that it was also ranked as THE top issue for HR pros by the largest margin ever in the survey’s history. Read more…

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HR Insights

Is It Time to say Goodbye to Golden Parachutes?

by on Jun 29, 2010, 9:55 AM  |  No comments yet
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Most of you probably hadn’t heard of Tony Hayward until his company, BP (formerly known as British Petroleum), hit the news earlier this spring with a catastrophic oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that has yet to be completely contained. So you might find it curious that there is a discussion going on about whether or not Hayward would receive a golden parachute if he leaves (or is let go from) the petroleum giant.

Compensation analysts seem to suggest he won’t (or it will be severely reduced), but that doesn’t mean he’s going to be living on the streets. He is also due a $16 million pension in seven years as well.

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A Tale of Two Speeches: How Al Gore Wowed Them at SHRM San Diego

by on Jun 28, 2010, 8:05 PM  |  5 Comments
From the HR blog at TLNT.

Let me be clear about this: I’m not a big fan of former Vice President Al Gore, but he gets my vote for the best and most HR focused SHRM keynote speech, ever.

Thanks that’s a bit of an overstatement? Well maybe, since my experience attending SHRM conferences only goes back for six years, but Gore managed to do on Monday what Steve Forbes couldn’t the day before – speak directly to human resource professionals about the work they do and the relevance of it in our modern world.

The former vice president followed a brief surprise appearance by Ted Kennedy Jr. (he talked about “how critical a job can be to a person’s dignity… (because) people with disabilities want a job and not a handout”), but the amazing thing about Gore was how he spoke directly, frankly, and passionately to the SHRM crowd. Read more…

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Following SHRM Annual Conference From A Distance

by on Jun 28, 2010, 1:31 PM  |  1 comment
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I know there are a lot of people in San Diego attending the 2010 SHRM Annual Conference , but not everyone can make it. When I was an HR generalist, I didn’t get to go to too many shows like SHRM. I stuck around local events and maybe caught regional ones. Back then, you were able to hear about the cool things that happened at the conference from a pretty limited amount of sources. HR Magazine would typically give you a few pieces. SHRM’s website would be another.

Now? There’s information everywhere. So if you’re at home and pining for some HR insight and Southern California sunshine (by the way, it was a lot nicer in Portland than San Diego today), here are a few resources besides the usual suspects: Read more…

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Day 1 at SHRM San Diego: June Gloom, Forbes’ Bad Back, and Member Growth

by on Jun 28, 2010, 9:15 AM  |  2 Comments
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If you’ve ever been to a SHRM annual conference and exhibition, you know one thing is true: Day 1 of the conference is as good as it gets.

That’s not to say that good stuff doesn’t happen throughout the four days of the big annual SHRM event, but just that Sunday always seems to be the one day out of the four where everyone is fresh and happy to be there. The long days of attending sessions hasn’t really started yet (that kicks in on Monday), and the long nights of partying are still to come. And that seems to be true if it’s held in San Diego, New Orleans, or anywhere else.

So, with the thoughts of happy and friendly interactions with people at SHRM still fresh in my mind, here are some interesting things that happened on Day 1 in San Diego: Read more…

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The 2020 Leadership Model for Tomorrow’s Workplace

by on Jun 28, 2010, 8:15 AM  |  1 comment
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By Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd

There are five leadership areas that seem to be emerging as requirements for the leader of the future.

The process starts with selecting leaders who have demonstrated a collaborative mind-set and who work comfortably in a networked leadership.

Second, we focus on leaders who see the development of people as one of their most important goals, including providing honest feedback, career guidance, and learning opportunities.

Third, the leader of the future will need to be digitally confident and able to speak the digital language of the newest generation of workers. Read more…

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