Archives for the ‘Current Events’ Category

Survey Survey Survey

By Lance Haun • May 2nd, 2008 • Category: Current Events

Calling all HR Pros!
A group from Southern Oregon University is doing a survey of HR professionals and would like your assistance. They are trying to analyze the gap between what is being taught and what students need to be successful in the HR field. To be blunt, it is something that many institutions need to [...]



New blog, different take

By Lance Haun • Feb 4th, 2008 • Category: Current Events

I got an comment from Dan at the Great Leadership blog pointing me to a post about the greatest HR bloggers of all time or something along those lines. It is good to be in such great company.
I have to say that anyone who is working full time with the leaders and managers of a [...]



New blog, corporate version

By Lance Haun • Feb 1st, 2008 • Category: Current Events

There is a new blog out there in the staffing world. Manpower’s VP of … that’s a long title, Melanie Holmes has a blog on contemporary working issues. I am trying to decide what I enjoy the most about the blog:

Her hatred of speakerphones. From someone who is on the phone a lot, I hate [...]



Do as I say…

By Lance Haun • Jan 29th, 2008 • Category: Current Events

So 12 days since blogging about me becoming the recruited, I haven’t blogged since then.
The bad part is that I haven’t kept up with blogging and then my database decided to die when I upgraded (but I did manage to fix it but it killed my scheduled posts). That, on top of general work and [...]



I am not writing this right now

By Lance Haun • Jan 14th, 2008 • Category: Current Events

As if there wasn’t enough evidence that I am not the most advanced technological mind in the world, I just figured out a couple months ago how to write posts for future posting.
Here is the deal, I am located here on the western coast of the US. Most of my readers reside at least two [...]