Insight into the HR World
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Apparently eating delicious (but unhealthy) food, drinking hurricanes and walking 1,000 miles in one day isn’t a good way to avoid waking up with a foot cramp. That’s how SHRM Tuesday started out for me. It was a great day after that.
I spoke in the morning with Silkroad about their talent management suite and what [...]
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Like many HR bloggers, I field several questions a month about how to get started in HR. When I hear that their primary reason for considering entry into the field is that they really love working with and helping people, I almost universally tell them to reconsider HR as a profession. Look, I love the [...]
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So let’s say you’re working for a company with turnover problems (i.e. losing your best people to competitors) and management comes to Human Resources to figure out why people are leaving. What far too many HR people will suggest is that the organization should use an exit interview to get the information and report on [...]
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I have always been one of those guys who sees the world in non-exact, change filled, and nebulous ways. I am hesitant to say I am a big picture thinker because everyone loves to say that they are a big picture thinker (while, of course, still being great with details). That’s always a load of [...]
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One of the things I’ve noticed since I started blogging is that a lot of bloggers like banging on SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management for the uninitiated or uninterested). When you’re talking about an organization that represents more HR people than any other organization, they are going to be fair game. And when SHRM [...]
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I’ve been thinking a bit about competition and adversaries. Laurie over at PunkRockHR picked my brain about it a little bit. The article on CFO about how we shouldn’t trust HR made me think a little bit more about it. And then Kris over at HR Capitalist posted about the CFO article (and referenced the [...]
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This may be the most depressing post I’ve had to write in a while. If you’re not in the mood for that, come back later in the week for something a little more upbeat. Sometimes reality isn’t fun though. Laurie’s post on progressive discipline and its follies reminded me of something I learned very early [...]
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I talk about a lot of things on this blog but I rarely touch on legislative issues that will be impacting our trade. I keep myself well informed but most people aren’t coming here to get their employment law update. If you are, I am sorry because you’ve probably been in a state of perpetual [...]
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I have seen several questions from both the employer side and the employee/freelancer side of the equation. Really much of it is coming around due to economic conditions. Some employers are afraid to hire a full time employee so they are considering contractors and freelancers. Some people who have been out of a job for [...]
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I was going to write about the inauguration today but I got so bored halfway through it, I started over on a new topic. I just don’t have anything interesting to say about it other than I am about a billion times more concerned about what happens after today. The ceremonies and all that are [...]
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