Insight into the HR World
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I love reading newspapers. I always admired local writers who could really bring life to a story of importance to the community. I enjoyed following local sports beats. And this is coming from someone who never really thought he could write on a regular basis. I just enjoyed the feel of newsprint on my fingers.
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I don’t know if you’ve heard but this economy is really messing up some things. They say these are unprecedented economic times. We are in a recession! Jobless claims are higher than they have been in decades. We needed a government funded stimulus package yesterday. Businesses are slashing prices so that you can survive in [...]
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Warning: This post is one giant sports analogy involving my favorite sports team. Proceed with caution.
In 2007, through a combination of having a poor record and some luck, the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers had the number one pick in the draft that year. Now if you aren’t familiar with the draft, it is basically the [...]
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One of the best parts about blogging in this space are the reader e-mails I receive (oh yeah, you can send me e-mails). You see, 80-90% of them I simply just answer and go about my day. The ones I do answer publicly are e-mails that are really entertaining, extremely timely/pertinent or I haven’t written [...]
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I consider myself a refugee. You see, I once thought the glass ceiling didn’t exist. At least, it didn’t anymore. How could it? There were different genders, races and religions at every level in American business. We were dealing with a labor shortage too so even if companies wanted to be picky, they couldn’t afford [...]
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When I was a kid, I used to play basketball all of the time. When you live in the Northwestern US, there were only two sports your could really play year round: basketball and soccer. For a good nine months, you could depend on rain interrupting your sport regularly and basketball was one where there [...]
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“Hi my name is Lance and I hate performance review time.”
“Hi Lance”
Even your satisfied and engaged HR guy dislikes certain aspects of human resources. I know, hard to believe. One of those things are annual performance appraisals. It is this time of year (along with our health benefit renewal) that I start to question things. [...]
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My first exposure to any sort of serious form of diversity training started at the university I went to. I was on a university diversity committee, somehow suckered into the role by my boss at the time. I walked into the room and, not surprisingly, nobody looked like me. I remembered how miserable I was [...]
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A not-so-fun note from a reader:
When I went to work for my former employer he gave me a ten year commitment, he said that he would give me a piece of the company if I stayed ten years. I stayed the ten years and when I asked him to make good he told me that [...]
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