10 Ways to Improve Your Job Postings on Your ATS

As a talent acquisition leader, my relationship with a job posting is complicated. It’s the document I loathe and love at the same time. I use it in determining a candidate fit as part of our interview and selection process as well as the job posting process using job boards. The job posting always changes, […]

Define Success Before People and Processes

People + Processes = Success. You’ve probably heard that, or some version thereof, before. This equation is nice, neat, and serves as a deceptively simple method to describe how we should manage our work. Put the right people in place, help them with solid processes, and POOF! Success! But, and I’m sure you know where this is […]

6 Sessions On Diversity You Can’t Miss at #SHRM16

Check out our SHRM16 VIP Party Guide by clicking here. We get you the parties and must attend SHRM events first.  This year there are over 200 concurrent sessions at the annual SHRM conference. That’s a lot of sessions to sift through! So to help you plan your conference better, I’ve gone through the offerings to highlight some […]

Why You Should Consider Candidates with Criminal Convictions

The rate of imprisonment in the U.S. has risen drastically over the past few decades. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, nearly one-third of the adult population has a criminal record. If an employer decides to avoid hiring those with records, that’s a huge percentage of the talent pool that will not even be considered. […]

Too Much Information: When Metrics Meets Surveillance

HR Metrics, HR Surveillance, Big Brother is watching

What’s the line between workplace metrics, good communication and surveillance? Odo, a new product from online survey platform Qualtrics, raises this debate once again. Reported on by Cale Guthrie Weissman at Fast Company yesterday, the program’s features include internal chat, task assignment, metrics and “access to birds-eye cameras looking over the office’s entire open floor […]

What You Need to Know About the Twitter Update

The long anticipated Twitter update is finally here and although the social media platform didn’t add new tools for dealing with harassment, it did give us several other items on our wishlist, like excluding @names and media from character counts. Importantly, Twitter has walked away from previously planned expansions to the 140 character limit, instead focusing on […]