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5 Takes On Google for Jobs

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So Google has made another splash in the HR/recruiting space, announcing earlier this week that they are launching Google for Jobs, a specialized search that brings the Google search experience to job hunting. Here’s what people are saying about it. 5 Takes On Google for Jobs Google to Launch Google for Jobs to Help Americans […]

Scandal: A TV Drama and Real-Life Hiring Process

Like the TV drama, current hiring processes could fit into the “drama” genre, or “comedic drama,” or maybe even “tragedy.” A series with multiple seasons at that. There are plenty of players, stakeholders and an industry built around it. My focus here is on two similarly written powerful lines that I recall being exquisitely delivered […]

Why Do People Watch Porn At Work?

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Lots of people watch porn at work. How many is a lot? The numbers vary, in part because sex is an incredibly charged topic that intersects with some of the deepest moral divides in our society and because there is still so little rigorous research about sex. And of course, there’s the little issue of […]

Episode 117: How Neuroscience Changes Learning at Work

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The field of neuroscience for leadership and the workplace is a growing one. Research is connecting past behaviors and experiences to employee engagement, learning and also your ability to adapt to workplace change. That’s a skill we need, because it seems we are moving at a faster pace at ever before. Episode 117: How Neuroscience […]

HR Carnival: Politics and Work

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Workology is proud to host the May edition of the Carnival of HR. Our topic is the ever contentious – politics. Find posts on how political trends are impacting the workplace, be it in recruiting and hiring, the status of foreign workers, healthcare coverage, or inspiration for change. Carnival participants also consider the more mundane […]

Would It Help?: When to Talk Politics at Work

In 2015’s Bridge of Spies, an apt and conscientious lawyer, James Donovan, played by Tom Hanks, unpopularly and with personal risk defends a Soviet spy named Rudolf Abel, who is on trial for espionage and facing a death sentence. Politics and work! Donovan asks Abel, played by Mark Rylance, several times in different ways if […]