Articles tagged 'talent management'

Today’s Job Search: What It Takes to Get to the Top of the Pile

by Ron Thomas on May 20, 2013, 10:25 AM | No comments yet

A job search today is not your Mother or Father’s job search

“I have some ideas as to how I am going to approach this and would like for you to take a look and give me your thoughts. My response was as usual, “talk to me first as to what you are thinking and then send me your draft [s].”

The lady I was helping methodically walked me through her thought process and how she was going to take it and transfer it to marketing collateral.

I realized after hanging up that a job search today is beyond anything that we have ever witnessed in years past. The day of just sending out a generic resume is a thing of the past. There is an entire cottage industry that has been built around resumes and LinkedIn bios. Read more…

Recruiting and Staffing, Talent Management

Hiring Wisdom: 10 Steps to Hiring and Retaining a Great Team

by Mel Kleiman on May 20, 2013, 8:10 AM | No comments yet

Take and stay in control of your team.
Share your desire, vision and purpose with your team to move them in the right direction.
Let only positive people on your team.
Your attitude is contagious, so keep it positive.
Don’t waste your time with people who don’t want to be on the team. Read more…

Leadership, Talent Management

Most Companies Fail at Innovation – But Here’s What to Do Instead

by Derek Irvine on May 20, 2013, 7:00 AM | No comments yet

What’s the most powerful word in business today? Innovation.

Read any blog, any news source, any prospectus and you will quickly stumble over “innovation” — how the company pursues innovation, how innovative the products are, and how “innovation” is a core value of the company.

And this is all well and good because innovation truly is what propels industries and markets ever forward.

But the real question smart companies should be encouraging every employee, in every role, to ask is: “What can I do, in what I do every day, to be more innovative? How can I innovate our product, our service approach, to better serve our customers, change the market, or push the company forward?” Read more…

HR News & Trends

Weekly Wrap: Don Rumsfeld’s 8 Rules For Successful Meetings

by John Hollon on May 17, 2013, 12:20 PM | No comments yet

Here’s a question I have heard repeated for years — does anyone out there actually like meetings?

I ask because in the world of business we seem to spend a lot of time in meetings, yet just about everyone I know, and every survey I’ve ever seen, indicates that most people say they would rather endure a root canal than be forced to attend yet another meeting.

John Cleese, the great comedian of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers fame, once did a corporate training video (several of them, actually) titled Meetings, Bloody Meetings, and Cleese, in his wickedly humorous way, did a great job capturing the many things that drive all of us crazy from all the meetings we’re forced to attend. Read more…

Talent Management

10 Tips For Reducing Employee Turnover

by Heather Huhman on May 17, 2013, 11:20 AM | 1 comment

Many people agree turnover is a growing issue, particularly as hiring picks up.

But what are most organizations doing about it, aside from implementing some short-term solutions when they discover it’s a problem?

Reducing employee turnover actually starts with the hiring process — but there are important management aspects to consider as well. Here’s what several experts had to say about the issue: Read more…

Recruiting and Staffing

The Recruiting Dilemma: Do You Look for Cultural Fit, or for Innovation?

by Jacque Vilet on May 17, 2013, 10:15 AM | 9 Comments

“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” — Charles Kettering

There’s been a lot written lately about “cultural fit.” In fact, you could say that cultural fit is the latest rage in talent acquisition.

In an article in the American Sociological Review, Northwestern Professor Lauren Rivera concludes that companies are making hiring decisions today “in a manner more closely resembling the choice of friends or romantic partners.” Read more…

HR Insights, HR Management

Exit Interviews: The 2nd Most Worthless Activity HR Has to Handle

by Barbara Milhizer on May 17, 2013, 7:00 AM | 20 Comments

Let’s be clear, the most useless HR activity is Performance Management. Hands down.

But since I have been an enthusiastic beater of that horse already, a close second has to be the Exit Interview.

Let’s review all of the reasons for their sacred cow status:

Good, actionable data on why people are leaving;
Closure for employees;
Risk mitigation for the company;
Goodwill and future employee referrals;
Knighted as one of the “Best Practices” by people who know things. Read more…

HR News & Trends, Legal Issues

Colorado Now the 8th State With a Workplace Social Privacy Law

by Eric B. Meyer on May 16, 2013, 9:10 AM | No comments yet

By Eric B. Meyer

Over the weekend, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a bill making Colorado the eighth state to have a social media workplace privacy law. (The others are Maryland, Illinois, California, Michigan, Utah, New Mexico, and Arkansas).

You can view a copy of the new Colorado law here.

The new law places three restrictions on employers with respect to access of employee and applicant social media accounts: Read more…

Culture

When Your Marketing Message Gets in the Way of Your Company Values

by Eric Chester on May 16, 2013, 7:00 AM | No comments yet

Last week on an upgraded flight between Denver and Orlando, I was given a warm cookie after the meal service. This is a nice touch United Airlines does and has done for first class passengers for years.

But as I examined the little brown paper sack the cookie came in, I was amused by the sentence printed on the bag: Made fresh, especially for you.

Something about that woke up the stand-up comic that resides deep within me as I began to imagine how Jerry Seinfeld might relate this story on stage. Read more…

HR News & Trends, HR Technology

Tech Startups Worry They Won’t Be Able to Find the Talent They Need

by John Zappe on May 15, 2013, 10:25 AM | No comments yet

More technology start-ups will be looking to hire than at any time in the last four years, says Silicon Valley Bank, but they worry they won’t be able to find the talent they need.

Even as most leaders and founders of the firms surveyed by the bank for its annual Startup Outlook report say conditions in the U.S. are better this year than last, the number of them who report hiring talent is their biggest challenge has grown. Nine out of 10 executives report finding and hiring the talent they need is their biggest challenge.

The annual survey says 87 percent of the tech start-ups reported plans to add staff this year. That’s up four points from last year, and 14 points from the first survey conducted in 2010. Read more…