November, 2011

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Hunting Talent

NoExcusesHR

'Needed: Experienced professionals interested in joining a world-class organization doing cutting-edge work. Requirements: Give up your job, tenure, retirement accrual, vacation seniority, relationships with colleagues and overall standing in your current organization to start all over again. Now that sounds like a great opportunity doesn’t it? But that''s exactly what we''re asking people to do in the reality of today’s world of hunting talent.

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Talent Management Software – Yes, It’s Still Hard to Select the Right Solution

Josh Bersin

The talent management software marketplace is now more than ten years old, yet it is still a daunting task to select the right solution. This market is both consolidating and expanding at the same time – and let me explain why. History of the Space. Originally these systems were designed as forms automation systems, often. Read more» The post Talent Management Software – Yes, It’s Still Hard to Select the Right Solution appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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The Anxiety Wars

The Bamboo Project Blog

When I was a junior in college, we were hit by a severe outbreak of salmonella , a result of undercooked eggs in some stuffing. It was so bad, people were literally collapsing in the quad. The walls of the infirmary were lined with retching students and the National Guard had to be called in to help with the situation. . In the aftermath, a weird sort of competitiveness set in among those who had been unfortunate enough to contract the disease.

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12 Keys to Achieve Results with Employee Engagement

David Zinger

1. Achieve Results (Part 1 of a 10 part series on the Employee Engagement Pyramid for Managers). Top of the pyramid. Based on extensive work in employee engagement, I constructed a pyramid of employee engagement actions for managers. There are 10 building blocks to full engagement and at the top of the pyramid on the 10 things managers must do to increase employee engagement is Achieve Results.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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#CRSS2011 CERN social recruiting: social not just social media

Strategic HCM

'I’m at CERN today for a session that their head of recruitment, James Purvis (in the picture, sitting in the middle) has put together. The session is on recruitment and sourcing, not just on social recruiting, but that’s been the main focus this morning. There’s over 50 people here (over 30 who didn’t get squeezed in) and more people (from over 40 countries) watching on live streaming.

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Is your chronically ill coworker just gaming the system?

Evil HR Lady

Dear Evil HR Lady, Due to your advice, I landed a great job about a year ago. There is only one problem. I work for a small department, and we have a coworker, Jim, who is a very nice guy with a serious absentee problem. For example, this year to date, he has called in sick 32 times. (We have a shared calendar where we track sick days, vacation, events etc.

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Talent Management in the Nordics: Globalization on the Front Burner

Josh Bersin

This week I had the opportunity to speak about next-generation talent management at two events in Stockholm. In this post I’d like to highlight some of the big talent challenges facing global. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Learning, Careers and Social Artistry

The Bamboo Project Blog

For a social artist, their in-breath is observing, allowing, listening, and understanding and their out-breath is connecting, enriching, inspiring, and enlivening. As with any artist, they seek out opportunities to stretch their capabilities beyond what they could imagine. - Polly Superstar. For months now I've been trying to get a handle on what it is I'm trying to do as I make shifts in my own career.

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A Manager’s Guide to Employee Engagement and the Virtual Team

David Zinger

Employee engagement guidance for managers of virtual teams. Informative Webinar with Yael Zofi Monday November 14. . The managers guide. I completed reading Yael Zofi’s wonderful book, A Manager’s Guide to Virtual Teams. Yael has created a powerful and practical guide for managers of virtual teams. You will learn how to create trust and accountability, navigate through communication challenges, resolve conflicts, and ensure deliverable get out the door.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Jack Dee on HR (or, “the comedian and the HR practitioner walked into a bar and…”)

Strategic HCM

'As a judge of the Personnel Today Awards, I get invited to their swanky black tie event on Park Lane. Last night’s ceremony was another excellent event, unaffected by snow as was last year’s do, and only let down, from my perspective, by the failure of my iphone’s batteries meaning I couldn’t tweet. Given this, I promised to blog on the event… I suppose this was largely as I expected some deep insights (or at least sharp observations) on HR from MC Jack Dee.

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Networking Key for Vets to Find a Job

45 Things

I just have one question for you today: What have you done to help a vet find a job? Read this story I did for Gannett/USAToday and promise yourself that you'll spend some time this Thanksgiving holiday giving thanks for our military and their families. And then help one of them find a job. In 2008, when Jessie Canella returned home from Iraq where he had been deployed as a Marine, he wasn't sure how to get a job in the civilian world.

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How To Do A Good Performance Review

TheHRBlog

The ingredients of a bad performance review are haste, lack of focus, a non-empathic attitude and a mechanical approach to the process. A good performance review obviously calls for a diametrically opposite approach. Here are some tips for managers whose duties include conducting performance reviews of their team members. Be Prepared: The intention behind a […].

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Talent Management Software – Yes, It’s Still Hard to Select the Right Solution

Josh Bersin

The talent management software marketplace is now more than ten years old, yet it is still a daunting task to select the right solution. This market is both consolidating and expanding at the same. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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Stepping Back to Move Forward

The Bamboo Project Blog

Fifteen years ago, after a weekend career retreat I ran for myself, I walked into my full-time job and quit. I realized that for a variety of reasons, the position was no longer working for me and I wanted to move into something else. With two kids heading into summer daycare that would eat up a good portion of my check, it seemed like quitting to work full-time on new opportunities for myself was the best option.

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6 Ways Managers Can Maximize Performance through Employee Engagement

David Zinger

2. Maximize Performance (Part 2 of a 10 part series on how managers can improve employee engagement). According to Aon Hewitt’s most recent report Trends in Global Employee Engagement , the largest drop in engagement this year is employees’ perception of how companies manage performance. Workers worldwide believe their employers have not provided the appropriate focus or level of management that would lead to increased productivity, nor have they connected individual performance to organi

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#HRTechEurope – iTalent competition (and congratulations to MIIAtech)

Strategic HCM

'I think most peoples’ favourite session on the first day of HR Technology Europe , perhaps tied with Thomas Otter’s opening keynote, was the first ever European italent competition run by Jerome Ternynck, CEO or SmartRecruiters (who won the US italent competition at the HRDemo show in the US last year). This competition is HR’s (or at least emerging recruiting technology’s) version of the X Factor.

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6 Gift Ideas for Colleagues

45 Things

Since I know many of you are shopping online this week (wink, wink, our little secret), I thought I'd help with the process regarding what to get your colleagues or valuable customers. Here are some ideas I thought might make nice gifts: * Steve Job's autobiography. At $17.87 on Amazon, that's a nice read for any entrepreneur-at-heart in your office. * Cookies.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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How To Switch Jobs In A Market Slowdown

TheHRBlog

All things considered, this is not the best of times for switching jobs in India. This country has seen a fair bit of negative fallout of the economic problems in Europe and the US, and most MNCs in India are tightening their belts on recruitment. If you are looking to get a senior-level job in […].

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Talent Acquisition in Turmoil: The Facts and Figures

Josh Bersin

Today we released our first ever Talent Acquisition Factbook®, a comprehensive study of trends, benchmarks, and spending data in the US (and UK) recruiting market. It points out the tectonic shifts. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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On Passion

The Bamboo Project Blog

I am writing this on a MacBook Pro, listening to music on my iPod, which seems fitting, given that I am posting about Mona Simpson's eulogy for her brother, Steve Jobs. . Certainly in the days following his death, there was much attention paid to Jobs' business acumen and success. But I'm far more moved and inspired by what Mona had to say about who he was as a man, as a person, trying to live his life as we all do.

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5 Compelling Invitations to Achieve Employee Engagement in Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability

David Zinger

The Importance of Sustainable Engagement in Environment, Health, and Safety. Leverage engagement to achieve environmental and sustainability results. The end goal is to improve your company’s performance and competitive position. But to do that, you need to get people engaged in the hard and rewarding work of greening your core business, your strategies, your operations, and your products and services.

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Just landed: Ultimate Guide to I-9 Compliance

If you’re seeking guidance in the complicated world of I-9, you’re in the right place! As a pioneer in virtual onboarding tech, WorkBright has been simplifying the I-9 process since 2014 when they launched Smart I-9, a digital form built for speed, accuracy, and compliance. Ten years later, they’ve heard just about every I-9 question imaginable, so their team of experts has developed this comprehensive FAQ to distill years of experience into a practical and accessible guide to all things I-9.

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Blogger blogging #CIPD11

Strategic HCM

'Just four years ago there was hardly any focus on social media on the CIPD conference’s agenda, and only a few of us blogging and tweeting from the conference. This year, the CIPD invited a sizeable blogsquad (‘ blogger-bloggers ’) to attend, and there were a number of other people blogging and tweeting too – making quite a loud backchannel (on Twitter at least).

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Should Women Give Up the C-Suite for More Flexibility?

45 Things

This week for USA Today I wrote about a new survey by More magazine showing that three-out-of-four women say they would not apply for their boss' job, partly because of the pressures that go along with it. The survey also found that 43% of the women surveyed say they are less ambitious now than they were a decade ago. And only a quarter of the 500 women ages 35 to 60 say they're working toward their next promotion.

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How To Achieve Career Mastery

TheHRBlog

You have worked hard at mastering yourself – your habits, your outlook on life, your relationships and your finances. Now is the time to master the course of your career, as well. You achieve career mastery when you can integrate your personal development and growth into your professional growth and development. There are different elements […].

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Project Social: Trendy HR Trends

Working Girl

'Dave Ryan and I were talking last week about what to post about next and I suggested HR challenges. I made this suggestion partly out of selfish reasons – I was working on an HR trends presentation at the time and was hoping to get a ‘twofer’ out of it – and partly out of curiosity about how he would approach the topic from ''the HR trenches.'' He was all over this idea (''Hmmmn.

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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Getting Comfortable with Incompetence

The Bamboo Project Blog

A tweet from Stephen Downes that's been hanging in my head for a few weeks: This may be the biggest challenge to ongoing innovation. Most humans are not good at feeling perpetually incompetent. It is frighening and a blow to our egos to think that we may not have a firm grip on our work. . We tend to fight situations that make us feel like we don't know what we're doing.

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4 Big Ideas: Marks & Spencer’s Keys to Employee Engagement

David Zinger

Here are a few snippets on engagement from Tanith Dodge, the HR director for Marks & Spencer. Sold on engagement. If the 25 per cent of Marks & Spencer stores with the lowest engagement scores in staff surveys performed as well in sales terms as the top 25 per cent, M&S would increase its sales by £104m a year. Defining moments. We must identify “what are the defining moments for our people – what really excites them at work.” M&S 4 Predictors of engagement.

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#HRTechEurope – emcee summary

Strategic HCM

'I’ve just got back from a great two days at HR Technology Europe in Amsterdam this week. But since I was busy working as Master of Ceremonies, I’m going to struggle for time to get much out on my blog. Anyway here’s my summary of the key themes for me: HR technology is really important, it’s taking an increasingly central role in HR strategy, and in business strategy too.