ERE Media has acquired Talent42, the first and only conference that brings together tech recruiters, engineers, and hiring managers. Talent42 is a national event, held annually in Seattle. Launched by John Vlastelica, founder of Recruiting Toolbox, and Principal Consultant Carmen…
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Automation’s Scary, But You Can’t Avoid Talking About It
We live in a world of perpetually upgraded work. Each day, work becomes a little more automated, employee and worker rewards become a little more immediate and job-related learning becomes a little more virtual. But in order for businesses to stay at the forefront of…
Is Google For Jobs a Job Board Slayer?
The unemployment rate is at a record low and job openings are at a record high. These should be happy times for job boards that provide the all-important access to job seekers, riding a similar wave of record job listings…
HR Departments Everywhere Are Embracing Video. Are You?
Not long ago, companies viewed videos as optional tools to achieve communication objectives. They were a luxury reserved mainly for marketing departments with huge budgets. Meanwhile, learning and development departments had only canned, off-the-shelf videos to draw from. And because…
What You Can Do to Keep Mothers From Giving Up Their Career
There are initiatives to encourage women to enter STEM fields. Organizations have programs to recruit women. Then what happens? “Across all areas,” asks Claire Flannery, “How are we getting on with keeping and engaging the females we already have and stopping…
What Your Employees Post Online Should Be a Warning
Yet again, here’s another situation in which off-the-clock social media posts impact the workplace. I read this opinion, in which the plaintiff, a former janitor at a car dealership, claimed that his race motivated the general manager to demote him. The…
For Want of a Background Check, the Romance Was Toxic
Note: The following story about Robbie Romance is fictitious, told to illustrate the potential problems caused by a rush to hire and the lack of any background checking. ∼∼∼∼∼ Once upon a time, a well-educated, dynamic HR manager had a…
What You Can Do to Avoid Bad Hires
20% – We’re sure this is a number you’re familiar with when it comes to the cost of turnover. Ever since the well-known 2012 report came out putting the average cost of replacing a worker at 20% of that employee’s…
Why You Should Customize Your Job Offer
We currently live in the era of personalized everything: Personalized medicine, personalized shopping, personalized playlists, the list goes on. People have a seemingly infinite amount of choices on how to customize and personalize their experiences in the world, whether it’s…
The Millennial’s Job Board Buys Again
Seven years ago a job site for female millennials launched. It was called The Daily Muse. Fast forward to now – there was a name change (The Muse), an injection of $30 million, massive growth, and voila! The site now…
What Should You Look for in a Hire?
Competencies have become the building blocks to determining success in an open role. When you identify competencies that are required for success in critical roles within your organization, you create a higher likelihood of job fit and success. Additionally, the…
Alternative Training Programs Help Improve Diversity Opportunities
The gender wage gap means women must work into the next year to earn what white non-Hispanic men earn by the end of the current year. And how long it takes women to catch up largely depends on their race…
HR Roundtable: Engaging With Social Media Is a Must
When folks gathered for the October (Cincinnati) Roundtable there was a palpable buzz because the topic was something that seems to surround every facet of our daily lives both personally and professionally — Social Media. People are either using social…
There’s Real Value In Knowing Your Team’s Social Capital
Last year I stumbled upon an article in Institutional Investor with the following subtitle: “Have friends, will travel: an argument for the Social Capital Manager.” The general premise of the article by Ashby Monk is that relationships have real economic…
4 Steps to Hiring Executives That Will Up Your Game
Unleashing the capabilities, capacity, and potential of a team or organization is a signature skill of a transformational leader. Yet, it would seem that many of today’s leaders vastly underestimate the opportunity to increase the performance capacity of their organizations….
HR 101: Hire Great Talent, Train Them, Then Get Out of Their Way
10 secrets to hiring talent Make a list of not only what a great employee will do, but how they will do it. Make a list of the reasons a great employee would want to come to work for your…
Your Next Best Hire Could Be a Discovery-Driven Candidate
The discovery-driven approach to a career yields a resume that is unconventional and might be overlooked by HR personnel accustomed to looking for specific, albeit limited, markers of accomplishment and capacity, such as years of higher education or experience in consistent roles….
HR 101: Losing the War For Talent? Try This Strategy
We’re living a whole new world. One where there is more accessibility and awareness than we’ve ever seen before. And while this may seem to be positive (and in many cases it is), this increase of information isn’t always good….
Empathy In the C-Suite Is Good For Business
As we start to close out another year, we’ve seen several workplace gender issues become more mainstream in conversations about business practices. Whether it be the lack of diversity at the top, a gender pay gap or the #MeToo movement,…
Everyone’s Looking for STEM Grads — For Sales!
With the forecast for rapid growth in STEM-related occupations, today’s STEM jobseekers, especially those in technology, enjoy a vibrant career marketplace. Narrowing the focus just to technology, the future outlook is even better. The Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts employment…