Transforming Rejection into Friendship Through Candidate Experience
Rejection is hard. Rejection is why so many people refuse to speak in public and why people don’t choose sales as a profession. Rejection is why looking for a job can be so excruciating and is one of the big reasons why so many people stay in the wrong job for so long. If you’re […]
Will HR Be the Last to Adopt Wearbles in the Workplace?
Wearables can be a great tool for HR I and several others have written about wearables being used in the future. Wearables have been talked about for several years but mostly as novelty items. I wrote about them because I think they can be a great tool for the HR professional. However, we have not […]
6 Ways to Rock Your Fall Campus Recruiting
Ah, the fall! I love it. Everything about it: pumpkin spice lattes, fall scented candles, pumpkin carving, boots, and back to school time. As someone who’s made a transition from being on the ground as a college recruiter to a behind the scenes role in employer branding, it’s not often that I get back on […]
A Bully of a Boss Bears Bad Fruit for the Entire Team
The phrase “People join companies and leave bosses” is as true today as it was 30 years ago with over 50% of job seekers planning to leave their current job sometime this year doing so because of their boss. Just like with a cold being passed silently from one person to another, the toxic effects of […]
Should You Use a Structured or Unstructured Interview?
Hiring decisions are never sure things. Nobody has cracked a code, developed a process, designed a technology, applied a psychological interpretation or even made up a catchy anagram that takes away the guesswork. There still may be good and bad approaches, but we in the hiring business often don’t even agree on which is which. […]
Thinking of Adding Wearables Tech to your Company’s Wellness Program?
I’ve always considered myself an HR person first but man I LOVE tech and gadgets (good thing I’m a HR technologist). I get really excited about some of the wearables that are now available. I use (or have used) many of what is currently out there — but I saw something that got me really […]
