3 Steps to Building Candidate Pipeline & Community Building

Making Candidates Feel Like Part of the Community

When it comes to recruiting in the digital age, community, content and conversation (the three C’s for easy reference) are becoming more important than ever before. But why? Because recruiting is not about technology or even posting jobs and processing resumes – it’s about building long-term relationships with candidates and building that candidate pipeline whether […]

Recruiting & Hiring on Twitter, Facebook, & LinkedIn by Country

Hiring & Recruiting on Social Media

As we enter a more globalized economy, managers and their scope of responsibility has also grown.  And increasingly, manager’s are responsible for employees in more than one country than where they in fact live.  The global economy presents a challenge for managers as they learn the cultural norms of their employees, employment laws, and expectations in this […]

Pre-Employment Background Checks: Top Trends for 2012

Developments in pre-employment background checks

Pre-hire screening process should be updated on a regular basis to keep up with EEOC and FCRA regulations, so you certainly do not want to “set and forget” pre-employment background check processes. In addition, states and cities also regulate the conduct of pre-employment background checks. Pre-Employment Background Check Tracking pre-hire screening news and making adjustments […]

5 Steps to Better Wage & Hour Law Compliance

Wage and Hour Compliance Tips

The Official Disclaimer First off let me get the disclaimer out of the way. I am NOT an attorney.  I am NOT providing legal advice.  I am making these statements from the perspective of an HR professional, consultant and HR instructor that has dealt with Wage & Hour issues for a long time.  With that […]

4 Essentials of Talent Communities: The Content Hub

Keeping the Talent in your Talent Community Interested

This is Part 2 of a 4 part series on Talent Communities.  In Part 1, we discussed that Talent Communities have  four basic pillars for success:  commitment, strategy, content, and membership… it’s as simple as that.  Yet its simplicity is somewhat duplicitous as what comprises each pillar is complex.  What’s the saying… the devil’s in the […]

Social Siesta Lands at #SHRM12

Social Siesta at SHRM 2012

Social Siesta at SHRM 2012 I’m in full on planning mode for SHRM’s 2012 Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA.  I’m co-presenting for a second year the 4 hour pre-conference workshop  “Social Media 101 for HR” as well as a concurrent session titled, “How Social Media Changes HR.”  So while I”m finalizing my slide deck, I […]