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Five Essential Fixes for Amateur Talent Management Tactics

Visier

In my previous role at an HR association, we benchmarked absence rates for over 100 organizations and found that the number of employee absences was 28 per cent higher during the first quarter of 2010 (when the Winter Olympics was in full swing) than during the first quarter of 2009 (when the H1N1 flu scare was prevalent). Why the increase?

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Why Recruiters Shouldn’t Be “Selling” Jobs

HR Tech Girl

Next, I transitioned into a helpdesk role that eventually led to building and managing desktop support teams, both at an ecommerce start-up and then a local municipality. Fast forward to early 2000, and I combined my love for technology and team building by going into technical recruiting where I have remained ever since.