Girl, You CRAZY–An exciting update
2010 is already shaping up to be an exciting year and 2010 hasn’t yet begun. Even still, I can’t seem to contain myself. I have three different announcements– Brand-Yourself. I am now a weekly columnist for Brand-Yourself Blog. Each Wednesday I’ll be contributing to the blog and talking about personal branding, the job search, and social […]
Employment Branding and the Touch Cyle
“A brand is a living entity – and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures” – Michael Eisner, CEO, Disney What Mr. Eisner is saying is that the small things matter when it comes to your organization’s brand. Every interaction impacts the perception participants have of your […]
Why HR Should Report to Recruiting
Just this past September ERE held there Expo in Florida. One of the key speakers for the Expo was Mike Grennier of Walmart. Now, I didn’t get to go to the Expo but because all my friends were sending back copious twitpics about how much fun it was I decided that I had better watch the stream from the Expo. […]
HR Is the New PR
Hold on to your hats, folks. Your HR team is the new face of PR. Human Resource departments aren’t just cubicles full of paper processing, copy making, policy writing drones, they are the future of your company’s business success. Ask any corporate human resource professional, and they will tell you that they wear many hats from recruiting, […]
Are You Connected?
Last week marked the two-month anniversary of my arrival to Oklahoma. After being in California six months, missing home and nowhere to use my degree in communication, it seemed best to go back to the 405. Leaving California with just a pocket full of money, no job, and nowhere to live, I certainly had my […]
HR & The Social Media Battlefield
HR & The Social Media Battlefield With the nearly 95 million people on Facebook and 28 million on Twitter in the U.S. alone, social media is a force to be reckoned with. And yet still businesses fail to effectively leverage social media which is a low cost way to build consumer relations, develop an employment brand, recruiting, and market […]