May, 2010

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7 Job Search Secrets You Must Know

45 Things

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Tuesday, May 11, 2010 7 Job Search Secrets You Must Know When I interviewed Harvey Mackay recently about using selling techniques to help in a job search, I told him that he was giving away the top secrets of journalists, also.

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Working with Idiots Can Kill You!

Evil HR Lady

Evil HR Lady Why am I evil? Well, Im not, but thats the perception of all of us in HR. Need to fire someone? Come to HR. Need to explain to someone why, even after working their rear end off all year, that their annual increase is 2.7%? Come to HR. Need to come up with new mountains of paperwork? Come to HR. So, come join me on the Evil Side. Oh, and send me your HR questions.

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A New Talent Management Framework

Josh Bersin

The concept of &# Integrated Talent Management&# became popular around five years ago – and since then organizations have used this phrase to describe an integrated approach to. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Tags: Leadership Development Performance Management Sourcing and Recruiting Succession Management Talent Strategy Workforce Planning accenture talent management framework.

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The Complexity of Transferring Lessons Learned from Projects

Conversation Matters

Transferring lessons from one project to another seems like it ought to be a simple task. The team that has learned something writes it up, then the team that needs the lesson reads the report – knowledge transferred, end of story. But unfortunately too many attempts at lessons learned don’t work. Critical lessons end up in repositories that few people visit and when they do log in, the reports they find are often not helpful.

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Prevent Toxic Work Culture and Protect Your Peoples’ Physical and Mental Health

The U.S. Surgeon General's warning about the role of the workplace on mental and physical health states that employers have an opportunity to turn workplaces into “engines of mental health and wellbeing”. Discover what it takes to foster workplace wellbeing and how to prevent a “toxic work culture”.

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In Which I Peek Out Into the Blogosphere

The Bamboo Project Blog

You would be excused for thinking that I'd abandoned this blog. I haven't posted since October, a disturbing 7 months ago and an eternity in Internet time. It's not that I haven't been online. In fact, I've been blogging, Tweeting and using wikis, Facebook and other tools for most of my clients. But that's been the problem. My social media energies have been expended on behalf of other people and I've lost touch with social media for myself.

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The Most Critical Lessons From This Crummy Job Market

45 Things

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Wednesday, May 19, 2010 The Most Critical Lessons From This Crummy Job Market When I was a kid, one of those "grown-up" sayings that made no sense to me was "never say never again." But as I grew older, I not only began to understand it, and I even found myself saying it.

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An Offer to all Novartis Human Resources Employees

Evil HR Lady

Dear Novartis HR Department, You probably don't know me. If you did, you might have actually read about what an HR department is supposed to do. Because of your lack of knowledge and insight, I am making an offer: Any questions from a Novartis HR person will be answered the same day I receive it. This means you will jump to the head of the line. Cut in front of the people in my queue.

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The Recovery Drives Bold New Priorities for HR

Josh Bersin

This week we published our TalentWatch® research for the first half of 2010 (report available to research members). In this research we ask more than 200 top HR and business leaders to tell us about. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Tags: Business Trends Innovation Leadership Development Learning Culture Talent Strategy culture globalization learning culture talentwatch vodafone.

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SuccessConnect San Francisco

SuccessFactors

'SuccessConnect 2010 kicked off today in San Francisco and has been nothing but non-stop action. Leading the action, was Lars’ by jumping for joy onstage to open up his keynote. Lars recapped SuccessConnect in New York, discussing business execution, and spinning the infamous big “Wheel of Success.

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The 26th Annual HR Systems Survey

The 26th Annual HR Systems Survey, conducted by Sapient Insights Group, is now open for participation through July 1, 2023. Your voice is the future of HR technology! This survey is valuable for anyone supporting their organization's HR systems and practices, interested in sharing their vendor experiences, and giving back to the HR community. All responses are confidential and only used in aggregate results.

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What Do You Call Your QuickBase Hero?

Quickbase

Last December, my colleagues and I saw a fun post on the Intuit QuickBase Facebook fan page. It read “Jared Gilbert has been dubbed ‘Captain QuickBase by his coworkers.” It even came complete with a ‘Captain QuickBase’ Christmas Tree ornament ! Love it!

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All the Way

True Faith HR

'Tonight, I will be one of the featured guests on the HR Happy Hour. The topic? "Social Recruiting, Sports, and Upside." As avid readers of this blog (all three of you) know, I have made a number of sports-related posts , including one about the research I am doing on team management theory and what happens when key top personnel leave the organization while the CEO remains intact.

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Does It Matter Whether You Have Friends at Work?

45 Things

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Wednesday, May 26, 2010 Does It Matter Whether You Have Friends at Work? How important is it that you work with people you like? Does it matter if you hang out with them outside of work? Or, do you prefer to keep your professional and personal lives separate -- talking to friends during the day via Twitter and Facebook?

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I'm a Little Creeped Out by This

Evil HR Lady

IF YOU'VE ever joked about your boss being a robot, stop laughing, they soon could be. A web service has launched that allows software algorithms to automatically recruit, hire and pay workers to do a wide variety of tasks. "For the last 60 years, humans have controlled software - now we're getting to the stage where software can control humans, " says Matt Barrie of Australian website Freelancer.com.

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Ace Your I-9 Compliance: How HR Can Navigate the End of I-9 Virtual Review

Speaker: David Secunda, Co-Founder and CEO of WorkBright

Did your company inspect I-9 documents virtually? Hot off the press from ICE, you have until August 30th, 2023 to document a physical inspection of those documents! If you’re not sure what exactly this means for your organization or are struggling to physically review I-9 documents with remote employees, join WorkBright for a 60 minute deep-dive and Q&A on the end of I-9 virtual review.

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The Personnelovac Machine

Nobscot

'I had a good chuckle last night reading a cute, satiric short story from 1960 with an HR technology related theme.The Success Machine, by Henry Slesar, follows "Personnel Manager" Ralph Colihan. Colihan works for General Products, a company where "mechanical brains" (big computers) do all the thinking and employees are there to simply act on the results.

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SuccessConnect NYC

SuccessFactors

'SuccessConnect 2010 had an amazing kickoff today in New York. Lars opened up his keynote using a big spinning “Wheel of Success” to determine what to talk about, all while holding his son, Lars Jr. right by his side.

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A Couple of Reading Treats

Working Girl

'Is it just me or are the HR and Leadership Carnivals particularly good this time around? Go ahead and check them out, each post is better than the next (mine are toward the bottom ;-): Carnival of HR hosted by Empxtrack Talent Junction Leadership Development Carnival hosted on Dan McCarthy''s Great Leadership blog.

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Fine Time

True Faith HR

'So, you’re back from HREvolution. You’re fired up and driven. You’re feeling warm and fuzzy and ready to take action. You want to influence like Jason Seiden and Paul Hebert. You want to make work meaningful like Dan Debow and Jay Goldman. You want to break out of the echo chamber like Laurie Ruettimann and Lance Haun. You really want to take action?

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Employer Guide: End of I-9 Virtual Review

Attention employers! If you virtually inspected I-9 work authorization documents during the COVID pandemic, you are required to physically inspect those documents before August 30th, 2023! WorkBright has consolidated all the information you need to properly manage this unprecedented scenario in an end of I-9 Virtual Review guide. They've got you covered on: Understanding whether this applies to your organization Deadlines for virtual review and physical inspections Overview of the reconciliation

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: Why Performance Reviews Make Some.

45 Things

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Tuesday, May 4, 2010 Why Performance Reviews Make Some People Crazy Performance. Review. Two fairly harmless words. But put them together, as in "performance review" and youve just touched on a hot-button issue.

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How do I Balance a Job Offer with Potential Offers?

Evil HR Lady

Evil HR Lady Why am I evil? Well, Im not, but thats the perception of all of us in HR. Need to fire someone? Come to HR. Need to explain to someone why, even after working their rear end off all year, that their annual increase is 2.7%? Come to HR. Need to come up with new mountains of paperwork? Come to HR. So, come join me on the Evil Side. Oh, and send me your HR questions.

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The Evolution of HR

Nobscot

'It''s not often that you get to see the practice of Human Resources evolve before your very eyes. That is what I have been seeing with the many HR folks dabbling (and more!) in social media. Of particular interest is an upcoming "unconference" called HRevolution which is bringing together 150 forward thinking HR consultants, bloggers, practitioners, vendors and more.

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ReviewSNAP Version 2.0 Coming To SHRM Annual Conference

Reviewsnap

'ReviewSNAP is pleased to announce that we will be launching ReviewSNAP Version 2.0 at the 2010 SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition in San Diego in late June. Our performance management system will very soon be more streamlined and robust than ever giving you both expanded and new features. ReviewSNAP is quickly earning the reputation as the premier Web-based performance management system.

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The Ultimate Guide to Optimizing HR Operations: How to Select Your New HR Software

Speaker: Patrick Sayers, President of Newcastle Research

Are you tired of struggling with outdated HR software? Are you interested in unlocking your organization’s productivity potential? It’s no secret that with tech-dependent remote work on the rise, it's more important than ever to successfully implement an HR platform that can provide actionable insights to help you hit all your key workforce KPIs. But with so much variation, how can you find the most optimal HR software platform for your team?

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Escribe tus metas

Impact Coaching Solutions

Soy del tipo de persona que siempre me ha gustado estar escribiendo ideas, garabatos y usando papelitos aquí y allá para hacer listas de pendientes, sueños, proyectos; y me dio gusto darme cuenta al hacerme Coach y aprender algunos conceptos del tremendo poder que tiene nuestro lenguaje hablado, pero también del tremendo poder que tiene nuestra escritura.

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Welcome to the Present

Workday

'As an admitted technology junkie, I love watching as companies such as Google, Salesforce.com, Apple, Facebook and a revitalized Microsoft continue to deliver innovation at such an unrelenting pace. I’ll openly admit to having a first-edition iPad, Droid and even a Palm Pre (which is a better device than its market traction suggests).

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Future of Work Agenda Newsletter: May 2010

Future of Work

This is the May 2010 issue of our free monthly newsletter, Future of Work Agenda. We welcome comments on any of these articles. You can also access the newsletter directly on our website, at this link. We like to slow down a bit in the summer—but it ain’t gonna happen this year. If anything, we’re feeling the pace of business—and life—accelerating beyond imagination.

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Working with Idiots Can Kill You!

Evil HR Lady

I always suspected this to be true. Of course, there is no Lindbergh University, nor did anyone do this study, but I fully believe it. I mean, death from head injuries sustained after beating your head against the wall must be at least a leading cause of emergency room visits, if not death. I know more than a few HR people who have been driven to insanity (or at least accounting) by some of the people we've dealt with.

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Report: Insights on Global Fertility at Work

Fertility is not only a global healthcare concern, but also an important workplace issue. To better understand how fertility impacts the workplace, Carrot Fertility surveyed 5,000 people across the U.S., UK, Canada, India, and Mexico. Carrot asked questions to get a sense of how people around the world feel about fertility topics at work and how they want to be supported in their fertility and family-forming journeys.