Can someone please tell me why an organization would invest real money in any new, cutting edge, or industry-leading HR technology? How are value propositions assessed? Are purchasers identifying problems that need to be solved first, or are they being exposed to technologies and then building an argument for why the technology has value? I think very few new technologies offer actual, realized value to the early adopters. One area of recent growth and expansion [...]
Efficient hiring systems directly affect your organization’s bottom line by reducing the time to fill vacancies, cutting down on recruitment advertising costs, and increasing the quality and productivity of new hires. There is no better time than now to focus on streamlining your hiring systems, so that your organization is prepared to attract great talent as the economy recovers.
This was originally posted on XpertHR’s Employment Intelligence Blog which I highly recommend! If I could change one thing about HR… I would dismantle the Human Resources department and rebuild it as a Talent Acquisition and Retention (TAR) department. To do this, the majority of the current day-to-day tasks performed by HR would be allocated to managers across the organization. In my experience, the role of the HR department within most organizations today includes the [...]
JobsInTheUS recently posted a poll on their newsletter asking employers, Would you hire someone with visible tattoos that could not be covered up at work? This is an intriguing question, and one that really deserves more than just a passing glance. With the results in, only 44% of respondents answered YES, indicating that they would hire someone with visible tattoos. Despite the prevalence of body art in pop culture today, this practice is viewed negatively [...]
I watched this TED Talk recently, and though it’s more than two years old now, the message from Mike Rowe, producer and host of Discovery Channel‘s Dirty Jobs, resonates strongly enough to still be talking about it today. Rowe outlines what he calls America’s War on Work, supporting this theory with numerous examples of how we, as a culture, have marginalized manual labor and those who do it, thereby creating a culture that turns down [...]