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Human Capital Management
What Matters Most in a Candidate?
Business & Economy
Bring an HR Business Partner
For the past 7 years, I worked as an HR business partner, both internally and externally, though have never worked directly in an HR department. Within my previous organization, JobsInNH, I worked closely with HR to develop and deliver training programs, employee surveys, and employee incentive programs in addition to recruiting, interviewing, and hiring. [...]
JobsInTheUS
Job Sites and The San Francisco Gold Rush
The final two months of 2008 resulted in a precipitous decline in job posting activity on our site as the economy began to tumble off the cliff, to paraphrase Warren Buffett’s sentiments. Since the beginning of 2009, I’ve been focusing my attention on identifying and developing new programs and services that will add value [...]
Human Capital Management
The HR/Recruiting Scourge of Blandness!
Sent to me by Robert Ayers, Senior Acct Mgr for JobsInME, from Peter Weddle’s recent newsletter:
The Scourge of Bureaucratic Correctness
There is today a scourge of bland communication oppressing the performance of corporate and staffing firm recruiting teams. While social media have captured their imagination, the vast majority of recruiters [...]
Business & Economy
Tired of Staff Who Just Don’t Care?
Tired of Staff Who Just Don’t Care About Your Business?
The hospitality industry has historically seen one of the highest turnover rates of any industry. While a large part of this is due to the seasonality of many businesses, a lack of attention to the hiring process is also a major factor. The hard [...]
Employment Branding
Why HR Rarely Develops the Employment Brand
(Reprinted from the Employment Branding Best Practice Exchange on LinkedIn)After speaking with more than 100 HR professionals over the last year, I’ve found that very few develop or feel they control the employment brand. At first, this appears to illuminate a broken system. It seems logical and intuitive that the people who spend the most [...]
Employment Branding
Simple, Memorable, and Thought Provoking
Simple, memorable, and thought provoking. Those should be the three keys to creating a tagline specific to your employment brand. Also, keep in mind that your employment brand will be viewed internally as well as externally. To this end, slogans will serve to remind your employees what they like about working for [...]
Employment Branding
Changing Your Appreciation Progams? Be Careful!
Over the years, I’ve worked for many companies who put on great employee appreciation events, and many more who offered referral bonuses when they were hiring.
Few, however tied these programs together to clearly communicate and reinforce their Employment Brand. If you’re going to put in place an incentive for your employees to speak with their [...]
Employment Branding
My Blog Elevator Pitch (for a tall building)
First, a word of thanks to the MaineHR Cafe for giving me this great idea. You can see the MaineHR Cafe elevator pitch by clicking here. As I read that recently, I was reminded that it’s important to routinely share the motivation, purpose, and hopes associated with a blog to let help new [...]
Employment Branding
RFL: Musings on eExternal Employment Branding
As a follow up to my previous posts, Don’t Just Sit On Your Hands and 4 Keys to INTERNAL Employment Branding During a Recession, the following bullets are laid out to provide some direction to employers, recruiters, marketing directors, personnel managers, and HR professionals on EXTERNAL Employment Branding. (remember, Consumer Branding is meant to [...]
