Since I first began blogging in 2005, I have been committed to developing and sharing resources for HR and recruiting practitioners. I've always been someone who is driven by knowledge, learning, and information. This thirst and desire to better understand the HR industry has fueled my work, commitment, and curiosity for the last 12 years. And I'm excited to share with you ... Read Full Article
Inspiration to Action: 3 Steps to Implementing Your #SHRM17 Ideas
The SHRM Annual Conference (#SHRM17) ended last week, but the hard work of translating your inspiration and ideas into action is just beginning. All too often we are tempted to take on many initiatives at once. We find ourselves, rightly so, by the sessions we attended and the people we met at conferences like #SHRM17 and we are eager to challenge the status quo. I’m here ... Read Full Article
Why HR Says No to Freelancers
Software development companies are tightly connected with new ideas and forms of work. They invent new approaches to make their employees feel comfortable, happy and motivated. I would even say that IT business gave an immense boost to the gig economy and freelancing - nowadays it’s far easier to work from home, particularly for programmers. Your tools - a laptop and the ... Read Full Article
Boys & Men In Skirts to Protest Summer Dress Codes
Summer is finally here in the Northern hemisphere and while girls and women are celebrating the warm weather with sundresses, shorter skirts and sleeveless tops, many boys and men are... wearing the same long pants and long-sleeved button downs to school and work that they always have. This year they're protesting summer dress codes by showing up to school and work in skirts ... Read Full Article
How to Identify and Handle Low Performers
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and a company is only as strong as its lowest-performing employees. At first, this analogy may appear to be an overreach—after all, how can one or even a handful of poorly performing workers affect the success of an entire organization? However, according to data from the Eagle Hill National Attrition Survey, low performers can ... Read Full Article
Top 5 Trends from the Expo Floor at #SHRM17
The doors to SHRM17's Exhibit Hall have officially closed and as with every SHRM conference, I spent some time chatting with vendors and walking up and down those long walk ways to talk to as many of them as I could. Back in the day, I used to do a post every year about all the cool swag I picked up at the conference -- but I stopped when I realized, I was inadvertently ... Read Full Article
6 Employee Benefit Trends in 2017 #SHRM17
In this war for talent, it's more than just employee perks that can drive candidate conversions and retention. Companies are growing and shifting their benefit offerings. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) along with increased health care costs, inflation, and the tightening job market, it driving these changes and trends as companies look for differentiation strategies. This ... Read Full Article
Labor Department Immigration Investigations Are Changing
The Labor Department has announced plans to more aggressively enforce employment-based nonimmigrant visa programs and crack down on abuses of worker visa programs through increased investigations. The statement, made two months after U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services announced it would begin targeting certain H-1B visa employers, calls for: Use of all tools ... Read Full Article
Will Cashiering Be the Next Job to Disappear?
Last week Amazon and Whole Foods announced a $13.4 billion purchase deal that would give Amazon a foothold in the fresh market, neatly supplementing its existence business in dry goods and virtually every other kind of merchandise. This isn't Amazon's first foray into the fresh market, though. Earlier this year it began experimenting with technology that would eliminate the ... Read Full Article
A Dismissal Shouldn’t Come As A Surprise
Someone once reflected with me in my capacity as an HR Leader that how people are treated as they leave an organization sends a message to the people who remain with it. Is that one of the reasons we have goodbye luncheons for those who resign? So that people remaining in the organization have something to look forward to? Such luncheons are not my focus though I attended one ... Read Full Article
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