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Recruiting and Staffing

Interviewing to Death: A Hideous Practice That Crushes a Candidate’s Spirit

by Dr. John Sullivan on May 15, 2013, 7:00 AM  |  6 Comments
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“Death by interview” is the harsh but unfortunately all-too accurate name that I give to the majority of corporate interview processes because of the way that they literally abuse candidates.

“Death by interview” is worth closer examination because harsh treatment during interviews impacts almost every working American, simply because each one of us is subjected to many interviews during our lifetime.

The hiring interview shares a love/hate status, where even though applicants initially hope to be granted an interview, once they are finally notified, they almost universally undergo a wave of stress and painful memories that causes them to stop looking forward to them. Read more…

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Talent Management

The Employee Engagement Choice: Is It a Job, a Career, or a Calling?

by Reese Haydon on May 3, 2013, 7:00 AM  |  9 Comments
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As we’ve researched trends in employee engagement, we consistently find dissonance in levels of engagement between a person who views his job as, well, a job, and people who have turned their “jobs” into careers or callings.

Of course, I always enjoy being able to support our findings with similar research done by other industry authorities.

Yale psychologist Amy Wrzesniewski, for example, has published research on how the mental conceptions we all have about our jobs affect our performance and our happiness. Her studies find that different people can see their employment as any of the three aforementioned types (jobs, careers, or callings), regardless of the position they hold (and even if they all hold the same position). Read more…

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Training & Development

Beyond Words: How Generation Y is Redefining Learning For Everyone

by Kevin Wheeler on May 6, 2013, 9:12 AM  |  2 Comments
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Gen Y, those in their 20s now, are born of bits and bytes. They hardly read. They watch play computer games, watch movies on the Internet, have made YouTube their favorite destination.

This generation is the one that will redefine learning. And because of them book-based learning, lectures, stand-up teaching, grades, honor rolls, and all the other paraphernalia of the 20th century will fade away faster than we image.

As I travel around the world I see cheap Internet access everywhere. Mobile data plans are getting more and more affordable and a data-enabled Sim card costs just a few dollars. Every young traveler has at a minimum a smart phone and often also has a laptop or tablet as well.

Being connected is as important to them as having electricity or running water. Read more…

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HR Management, Talent Management

Six Ways to Spark Innovative Thinking in Your Workforce

by Laura Stack on Apr 26, 2013, 8:05 AM  |  1 comment
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“You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — André Gide, French author (winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947).

While the business environment requires a certain level of built-in routine in order to maximize productivity, that doesn’t mean you can’t have creative fun at work.

Remember what Peter Drucker taught us: “The business enterprise has two — and only two — basic functions: marketing and innovation.”

So what does that have to do with creativity? Just this: when you reduce it to its essentials, innovation is creativity. Read more…

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Recruiting and Staffing

Top Performers: Here’s Why Their Employee Referrals Are Golden

by Dr. John Sullivan on May 10, 2013, 6:55 AM  |  1 comment
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Articles from academics don’t always provide practical lessons, but there have been two recent ones that everyone in talent management should pay attention to.

The results of the first one focus on the output differential produced by top performers. This study published in February in Personnel Psychology which cut across several industries, revealed that the top 5 percent of the workforce at the researched firms produced 26 percent of the firm’s total output. The top-performing 5 percent produced 400 percent more than you would expect (26 percent rather than 5 percent).

That means that top performers have an incredibly high ROI because they produce more than four times more; however, they are generally paid less than 20 percent over an average worker in the same job. Read more…

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HR Insights

Why Stepping Back and Making It Simple Solves Everything

by Patti Johnson on May 9, 2013, 11:25 AM  |  2 Comments
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Simplicity is hard.

Well, it may not solve everything, but stop and think about how complexity gets in the way of so much of what we do. Organizations are confusing, strategies are misunderstood and the customer experience is disjointed.

It turns out that simplicity is hard. It’s easier to bolt on the new technology to the old version, add four more slides to the 72 page slide deck and narrow down to the top 25 critical initiatives for 2013. Finding the simple truth is difficult and so we punt.

Simplicity takes clarity, honesty, unbelievable discipline and intelligence. Any one of these alone can stop us dead in our tracks – much less all together. It often takes more than one person to achieve simplicity. And, oh by the way, we have a deadline. Read more…

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HR Management, Leadership

6 Ways You May Be Driving Your Team Crazy and Don’t Even Know It

by Patti Johnson on Mar 27, 2013, 7:00 AM  |  14 Comments
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Even the very best leaders have habits that can sometimes make their teams completely crazy.

Beware of these favorites that have been known to cause mumbling under the breath, a twitch, or a knowing look within the team.

Go ahead and ask yourself: Do any of these look familiar? Read more…

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Recruiting and Staffing

25 Smart Recruiting Topics For Bold and Innovative Recruiting Leaders

by Dr. John Sullivan on Apr 23, 2013, 8:10 AM  |  2 Comments
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During the newly reinvigorated and exciting Spring ERE Recruiting Conference & Expo last week in San Diego, two attendees posed related but powerful questions to me.

The first was, “What advanced topics should be on the agenda of recruiting leaders at elite firms?” Or as another put it, “What should Google be planning to do next in recruiting?”

At least to me, future agenda items are an important topic, because after visiting well over 100 firms, I have found a dramatic difference between the agenda items that are found on 95 percent of the firms (cost per hire, ATS issues, requisition loads, etc.) and the truly advanced subjects that only elite recruiting firms like Google, DaVita, Sodexo, etc. would even attempt to tackle. Read more…

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Recruiting and Staffing

The 5 Rules of an Engagement-Oriented Recruiting Strategy

by John Touey on May 20, 2013, 9:12 AM  |  1 comment
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Let’s face it — the active candidate has become a second-class citizen.

Conventional wisdom says that there continues to be a glut of in-transition executives in the job market. Just post a job on Monster.com and you can expect an avalanche of resumes to bury your inbox. Or, set your corporate recruiter loose on LinkedIn and within a few days, she will be sitting in your office with a stack of profiles from which you can choose your next VP of [insert job title here].

The only catch is that the vast majority of these candidates are either out of work or have something going on in their current companies that is pushing them out the door. Read more…

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HR Insights, HR Management

The Model HR Leader? Maybe It’s an Orchestra Conductor

by Carol Anderson on May 14, 2013, 10:25 AM  |  4 Comments
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I have been thinking a lot about my profession – human resources – lately. I have come to the conclusion that there is no other field or discipline in organizations that is as complex and varied as the field of HR

Those in Finance, Marketing or Operations may disagree, and certainly that would be an interesting dialogue. But I would like to explore this idea of the complexities of HR just a bit.

What strikes me is that those aspiring to become HR leaders must have a reasonable grounding in: Read more…

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