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July 2011

Many employees are caught in a communications vortex as they struggle to keep up with their e-mail and monitor social media, according to a new report, The New New Inbox—How E-mail and Social Media Changed Our Lives.

The effect of all these channels of communication—Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs, YouTube, Google and Yahoo groups, RSS feeds, Delicious bookmark—is a workforce that is “scattered and disoriented,” said Pierre Khawand, founder and CEO of People-OnTheGo, which conducted the survey.

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July 29, 2011

Kris Dunn, CHRO of Kinetix and blogger for The HR Capitalist and Fistful of Talent, offers insight into the role that social media will play in the future of HR and business. 

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July 28, 2011

Hiring managers as well as human resource leaders at Burger King Corp. had grown increasingly frustrated with the fast food company’s paper-based job application process. Paperwork was unwieldy to manage, restaurant managers too often spent valuable time screening candidates who didn’t pan out, and there were significant cost and time inefficiencies in processing I-9 and Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) forms.

July 27, 2011

In the not so distant past, recruiters and staffing managers pored through resumes, posted on job boards and hosted expensive job fairs in top markets to find candidates and fill jobs. Now, they might interact with social network site users by posting a challenging technical question, then contact individuals who provide the best answers to discuss a potential job.

News Updates
July 27, 2011

While social media outlets appear to be changing the way employers identify and recruit job applicants, the impact and long-range implications of social media on staffing functions remain unclear. According to the 10th Annual Sources of Hire Study released by CareerXroads on March 17, 2011, more than 88 percent of employers responding to a survey reported that they consider social media to be a part of their overall direct-sourcing efforts.

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July 26, 2011

From shortened workweeks, massages, unlimited sushi, to ball pits, spaceships, and dinosaurs – companies are looking to innovative ways to attract and retain top talent.

July 25, 2011

There was a time when social media was cutting edge. Now it is mainstream. Case in point: Facebook has more than 500 million individual members worldwide.

As with all communication, social media presents business benefits and legal risks. This article discusses four ways social media and HR have become inextricably intertwined: hiring, harassment, off-duty disparagement and “friending” of colleagues.

News Updates
July 25, 2011

Richard Sheridan, CEO of Menlo Innovations, discusses their unique hiring process, which includes interviewing for both skill and cultural fit.

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July 21, 2011

Companies are aware of it, they’re afraid of it, and they’re scrambling to figure out what to do about the poaching of their top technology workers.

Talent poaching occurs when one company snags a rival’s top staffers with the lure of higher salaries, better benefits or other perks, according to a recent survey by tech employment website Dice.com.

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July 21, 2011

CHICAGO—A “Blues Brothers” comedic skit helped, but American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) President and CEO Tony Bingham and opening keynoter Daniel Pink are the ones who really got the crowd jazzed during the ASTD 2010 International Conference & Exposition, which kicked off here officially in the Windy City on May 17.

This year’s conference theme: Social media and learning.

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July 21, 2011

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July 19, 2011
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As technology transforms the workplace, companies look for ways to compete in a global work environment, and new generations of employees put a higher value on having control over when and where they do their work, flexible work arrangements have become an increasingly important offering.   

July 18, 2011

Huge demographic shifts in the workforce — from Baby Boomers staying in the labor market to Millennials unable to enter it — were at the forefront of today’s “Workforce Mosaic Policy Summit” at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Other demographic trends including rapid growth in the nonwhite population and military veterans re-entering the workforce were also highlighted.

July 13, 2011

Part of the SHRM Foundation's Effective Practice Guidelines Series 

Sponsored by ADP

Human resource management is evolving into a more technology-based profession. In many organizations, employees now see the face of HR as a portal rather than a person. This transformation of HR service delivery, known as “e-HR”, requires a fundamental change in the way HR professionals view their roles.

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July 11, 2011
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More employers are using social networking tools to enhance employee interaction. 

EMC Corp.’s social business network, called EMC/One, had been in place about a year when the economy turned sour. The developer of information infrastructure products was about to learn the value of a Facebook-like platform for use within the company.

July 11, 2011

Simulations teach employees under real-life conditions—without real-world consequences.

A growing number of employees are using online simulations to role-play challenging scenarios, practice job skills and attend virtual meetings by logging on to web sites. In some cases, simulations in virtual worlds save companies huge sums that would have been spent trying to re-create job conditions in the real world.

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July 11, 2011

Improved engagement, turnover, brand visibility and credibility among clients are goals

 

To kick-start the International Association of Business Communicators annual conference, John Santoro first cracked a semi-joke about himself.

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July 11, 2011

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh dicusses the importance of company culture and how it leads to increased employee productivity, trust and engagement.

 

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July 11, 2011

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and—SNAP—the job’s a game! —Mary Poppins

We live in an amazing time of demographic and societal changes, incredible communication and information developments, economic landscape alterations, globalization, and the continuing rise of the knowledge worker — all of which have contributed to the creation of a new world of work.

July 11, 2011