What We Can Learn From Starbucks Closing its US Pay Gaps
Starbucks Executive Vice President and chief Partner Officer, Lucy Helm, announced last week that the company has closed all race, sex and gender-based wage gaps in its American operations. The news was shared at Starbucks’ annual shareholder meeting and positioned as part of its overall growth strategy: investing in partners, global expansion and social impact. […]
Growing Your Employment Brand
Join me for a webinar on 4/19 at 11-12 AM CST for 7 Ways to Super-charge Your Talent Brand. HRCI & SHRM credits available. Click here to register. A client and local HR leader from a manufacturing business recently told me that she wished to find more candidates with tech skills. She’s not seeking developers but simply […]
Where to Start Today Building Your Talent Brand
Why do you need a talent brand? Because measuring, monitoring and improving an organization’s reputation is becoming a crucial component of talent acquisition strategies for any company in today’s labtor market. Your talent band exists with or without actively managing it. It includes the perceptions of prospective, current, and previous employees and it influences whether […]
How to Interview Job Candidates and Uncover the Best Talent
With the evolution of data science in the human resources arena, there are opportunities for hiring managers to have the kind of insight that wasn’t possible 10 years ago. We can uncover things beyond what’s on a candidate’s resume, using the interview to assess for culture fit as well as experience. In this post, we’ll […]
Five Ways to Find Your Tribe with Social Media
There is something comforting about returning to a place where you felt like you belong. I recently had the opportunity to return to Denver/Boulder area. I spent most of my 20s in this area. This is where I found a great group of folks who let me be myself and I was able to truly […]
Are Rehires a Risk or a Sure Thing?
Steve Jobs left Apple, a company he co-founded, and then returned to take the organisation to new heights. Several years ago, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rehired more than 300 of its previously fired workers. A number of professional coaches, including Art Shell of the Oakland Raiders and Bobby Cox of the Atlanta Braves, […]
