I’ve worked in recruitment and employment branding for just about a decade now, and as a Gen X’er, that covers most of my working life. For most of this time, I’ve identified myself as an HR Business Partner and Consultant, though as a hiring manager and senior director with a subsidiary of a mid-sized media company, I’ve also worn other stakeholder hats related to talent acquisition and talent management. Here’s what I’ve learned from some [...]
Disclaimer: I like and respect the opinions and writings of Bob Corlett on his blog, The Staffing Advisor. I believe Corlett has tremendous insight and experience combined with a talent for writing succinct, pithy, and relevant content (and here’s the impending ‘BUT’), but I couldn’t disagree more with is perspective on whether or not to disclose salary range to candidates in his recent post: What’s the Salary Range for that Position? « The Staffing Advisor. In my experience, [...]
This post: Hiring People Who Can Handle Ambiguity « The Staffing Advisor, does a great job providing simple and effective tips to uncovering an applicants ability to handle ambiguity. While not going into too much detail about the value of these folks, it’s an excellent and quick read. From my vantage point, it seems that our economy is now built and growing on industries and job functions where dealing with ambiguity is an essential characteristic. [...]
Please excuse my pressing need to vent publicly about the onslaught of marketing, promotion, and “education” around the idea that recruiting and consumer marketing are essentially the same function. Hiring a productive, engaged, long-term employee is extremely different from convincing someone to drop a few dollars on a product or service! Ahhhh…. that feels better. Now, in full disclosure, I’ve heavily researched the various plants and animals within the “recruitment marketing and technology” ecosystem, and [...]
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 [...]