Recruiting Metrics & Analytics Key for Employer Branding
Do You Remember a World Before Employer Branding? Long before employer branding was even invented, recruiters struggled with justifying their hiring efforts especially when it came to source and quality of hire. The more choices of candidate sources made the need for something to make sense of all it. Otherwise, we were spinning our wheels […]
Building a Workplace Cutlure of Advocacy
We talk constantly about how to use individual employees to leverage a brand. I just attended a session at South by Southwest called “Cultures of Advocacy: People, Product and Change” and it was interesting to hear the perspective from big (and even global) brands like GAP, Southwest Airlines and agencies that have worked in similar […]
3 Reasons to Dump Employee Performance Reviews
Can we talk about performance appraisals? This corporate sham is one of the most insidious, most damaging, and yet most ubiquitous of corporate activities. Everybody does it, and almost everyone who’s evaluated hates it. It’s a pretentious, bogus practice that produces absolutely nothing that any thinking executive should call a corporate plus. Harsh and provocative, […]
How to Learn, Party & Network at #SXSW
For years I have been going to South by Southwest’s Interactive Festival and learning to balance my learning, partying, and networking has been what I consider a true art form. How to Learn, Party & Network at #SXSW For those who have only heard of the crazy fun times that happen at SXSW and have […]
Does Your Leave Policy Promote the Working Parent
Does Your Leave Policy Promote the Working Parent? While checking out some articles trending for International Women’s Day this past Sunday I came across this neat article in the Washington Post, “An unusual new policy for working mothers” in which they describe Vodafone Group’s new global maternity policy. In addition to 16 weeks of paid […]
Three Ways HR Must Get Technical to Survive
Recently, I met an HR consultant who told me their business was built around the frustration CEOs and other executives experience when dealing with HR managers who lack technical or analytical skills. Frankly, I was offended. Even though most HR managers can’t write SQL queries, most database administrators won’t hold the hand of a colleague who has […]
