On January 23, SHRM @WeKnowNext chatted with Craig Fisher (@Fishdogs) about hiring manager and recruiter buyer's remorse.
In case you missed it, here are all the great tweets from the chat:
I love puzzles! I mean it. I love the challenge of opening a box and seeing thousands of tiny, misshapen pieces that only show a portion of a bigger picture. To be honest, I like puzzles that are also a little unique. I’m not a big fan of the large, scenic panoramas. If it’s something that challenges you and comes out with a very cool end product – then I’m in.
At Christmas, the kids and I all got puzzles. Here’s a look at them . . .
Cool puzzle of the US made up of license...
Some hiring managers and recruiters call it buyer’s remorse. After a brilliant interview, you hire a candidate that you believe is the perfect fit for the job. A few weeks later, you’re wondering what happened to the person you originally interviewed.
Their resume is loaded with skills and experience, and they talk the talk, but will they fit the talent profile that you’re seeking to fill? What if the candidate is independent and entrepreneurial and you need a collaborative, team player? How do you know if they’re embellishing their experience, or just looking to collect a paycheck until they can...
Corporate wellness is not just the physical and mental wellness for employees. Corporate Wellness can also refer to the health and well-being of corporate systems like email. For 2013, resolve to get your inbox in shape and rethink how you use email as a communication tool.
Over the holidays, I had to give up a couple vacation days to come into the office and get out of “email jail.” My company, and many other corporations, have email storage and retention policies that limit the amount of emails we can have in our email inbox and folders. I had...
We’re about a month into 2013…hard to believe, eh? I wanted to see how those resolutions are coming along.
Don’t worry if you didn’t set any resolutions – there’s still time. Or if you’ve already forgotten about them, you can start again. The important part of resolutions is having something you want work toward that’s important to you.
I know, I know . . . there are anti-resolution people out there. People who will tell you resolutions are for losers. I tend to think of resolutions like goals. Actions I want to accomplish in the upcoming year....
On January 9, SHRM We Know Next chatted with John Hudson (@JohnPHudson) about the topic: "Should Recruiters Judge Candidates by Their Social Media Profiles?"
In case you missed it, here are all the great tweets from the chat:
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I have been thinking a lot about wellness initiatives for the past couple of years perhaps due to having participated in Illinois annual Workplace Wellness WOWIE Awards a couple years back. ILSHRM in partnership with Blue Cross / Blue Shield of Illinois has really created an excellent program in acknowledging companies across Illinois in their wellness efforts as well as encouraging others to step it up a notch!
After having reviewed several applications, it seemed that overall there were only a few companies who were actually seeing major results and ROI (for lack of a...
I'd like to call your attention to what is essentially more wood for the fire of the seemingly endless 'Skills gap' debate - a summary of some recent research by two Northeastern University academics, William Dickens and Rand Ghayad, titled 'It's not a skills mismatch: Disaggregate evidence on the US-unemployment-vacancy relationship' posted this past weekend on the Vox site.
You should take a few minutes to read the piece from Dickens and Ghayad - it provides an interesting and somewhat alternative method of examining the alleged skills gap problem - the scenario that so many...
I have found a new respect for sole HR practitioners. I myself have never been a sole practitioner and have always worked for larger companies who had HR staff anywhere from 15-50 people. Until my latest client assignment. I mentioned back in November that I had stepped in to fill a gap for a wonderful client who was losing their HR Director. This client is a 90 person sales/service organization located outside of Chicago. This role is that of a sole practitioner who does have a receptionist reporting to them, but ultimately all of the HR “stuff” falls...
Should job seekers clean up their social media profiles when actively searching for a job?
Perhaps it would be wise to delete the “I hate my boss” posts, the mug shot of your wild weekend in Vegas, or the rants about your disdain for baby seals. But the weekend pictures where you are having a beer or a glass of wine and a great time? Those funny cat memes? Where’s the harm?
Social networking sites have an intended purpose, but most are created for people to share their experiences and to show a personal side.
As recruiters and HR professionals,...
