You’ve heard of this concept of the inverted-u curve, right? It’s fairly straightforward. In the beginning, you have nothing or very little. As you … Read more
Will 2017 Be the Year of the Employee Experience?
Recognize This! – Trends in HR for the year ahead will emphasize empowerment, the employee experience, and ultimately a more human workplace. What will … Read more
An Emerging Trend For HR’s Data: Analytics-as-a-Service
The current trend is for companies to build in-house departments staffed with data scientists to do advanced analytics. However, this is probably only an … Read more
Technology Can Make Onboarding a Welcoming Experience
According to Aberdeen Group’s 2014 research, only 32% of companies have a formal onboarding process in place. With so much depending on the success of … Read more
HR Technology Is Helping to Change the Entire Work Culture
Recognize This! – Trends in HR for the year ahead will emphasize empowerment, the employee experience, and ultimately a more human workplace. What will … Read more
Zenefits Launches A New All-in-One Platform You Should See
Right about now in a San Francisco hotel, Zenefits is unveiling its reimagined, redesigned HR platform for the SMB market. From what I saw during the … Read more
Customer Focus: Creating Memorable Moments for HCM Technology Clients
Many of us reading this attended the 2016 HR Technology Conference and Exposition, which was held in Chicago last week. There were hundreds of vendors … Read more
It’s Your Job to Keep Company Data Safe So Talk to IT
Terminating employees is never a fun task for HR, but it’s sometimes a necessary function that must be handled properly. Ensuring the organization’s … Read more
Using References As a Screening Tool
The big challenge in recruiting is getting high quality information so that one can accurately match a candidate to a job. One potentially underutilized … Read more
Is Anyone Using That Dashboard You Created?
In this era of people analytics, many HR leaders feel they ought to be producing dashboards. The problem is that they don’t know why — and that is one heck … Read more
Is Technology Taking the “Human” Out Of Human Resources?
The meeting room buzzed with sounds of feverish optimism. Recently purchased software to streamline the HR-related functions within the organization was … Read more
The Struggle In Recruiting Is Getting the Right Kind of Information
Many professionals don’t have a good handle on what their skills are really worth in the marketplace nor who would likely hire them. As a result, when they … Read more
How to Ensure Your Shared Service Center Delivers On the Promise
It’s Sunday night in a dimly lit regional office. Major presentation is due Monday morning to senior management on the recent changes to corporate HR … Read more
Get That Seat at the Table Using Metrics to Look Forward
Over the years, human resources has been bumped down lower and lower on the influencer list in organizations, and losing what seats professionals ever had … Read more
Does LinkedIn’s Free Agent Platform Have a Future?
LinkedIn is fascinating but frustrating. Is it just the world’s biggest pile of professional resumes or something more? Is being a publishing platform and … Read more
The HR Bots Are Coming! Will You Be Ready?
The robot revolution has arrived. With major companies Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo all launching some version of a chatbot or virtual assistant … Read more
Do You Have the Tools to Make Your Remote Workers Feel Connected?
Businesses invest the most capital in two things: their real estate and their people. This means that physical office spaces and hiring/onboarding … Read more
Understanding Your Employees Is the Key to Offering Personalized Benefits Programs
HR professionals today are challenged with developing a long-term reward strategy that suits the individual requirements of each employee. According to my … Read more
Target Your Prospects With Programmatic Ad Buys
Deciding where to place a job ad is an important decision; it’s based on how best to get your ad in front of good candidates. For example, if you were … Read more
From the World Of HR
Who would ever make a movie about onboarding? Well, no one. (Though someone did compile a book about HR sports analogies, which I’ll get to after … Read more