Out Now: HR Certification Podcast Episode 12: Answering Your SHRM & HRCI Exam Questions

Long Live HR Experimentation!

Long Live HR Experimentation! When invited to a newly revised onboarding session, that I entitled “Onboarding Experiment,” one of our new hires told me how she loved that I used the word experiment. My immediate reaction? Crap. She’s onto me. I find myself using that word quite a lot in reference to initiatives I’m working […]

Steps to Creating a Balance Talent Acquisition Strategy (Part 1)

Balance. It’s something we all need more of in our lives. It’s the reason I’m doing pilates and yoga a couple times a week to get some much needed perspective and time for myself away from the workplace daily grind. I need a life away from the workplace hamster wheel, this blog and my consulting […]

What Zenefits Teaches Us About the Limits of Disruption

What Zenefits Teaches Us About the Limits of Disruption Hot IT startup Zenefits offers small businesses HR software. It receives funds from many sources, including a sizable investment from actor Jared Leto, and it also generates revenue from businesses using its software to buy services like payroll and insurance. Its objective is to streamline and […]

Changes Coming to Twitter @Replies Amid Stock Woes

Twitter’s bad week continues – the news Wednesday that its new user growth stalled in Q4 was anything but good for the social media company’s already dipping stock price. Changes Coming to Twitter @Replies Amid Stock Woes   This after days of user pushback and bad press, #RIPTwitter!, is making it harder and harder for CEO Jack Dorsey to turn the […]

What Is the Twitter Trust and Safety Council?

While Buzzfeed was breaking the news that Twitter’s long-rumoured new algorithmic timeline would be debuting soon, Twitter was busy announcing its new Trust and Safety Council. #RIPTwitter dominated and continues to dominate the conversation on and about the social network this week, with the council’s announcement taking a backseat – or perhaps even more aptly, […]