May, 2010

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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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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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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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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 Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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Diversity and good management

Working Girl

'One of the reasons I''ve been a bit quiet lately is that I''m taking a talent management certification course at Cornell, which takes up some of the time I typically use for blogging. One of the topics in this course was diversity, which inspired this post. It turns out that companies that tap into the power of diversity - i.e., not just tokenism, which can undermine company performance, but actively including members of a diverse workforce - perform better.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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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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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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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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It's a Job Interview, Not a Beauty Pageant

Evil HR Lady

In a beauty pageant, the judges look over a slate of contestants, ask them a few questions, perhaps have the contestants perform a talent of some sort, and then all the contestants parade around the stage in fancy dresses or bathing suits. At the end of all this, the judges proclaim a winner. She cries because it’s so wonderful and all the other contestants congratulate her and then slink back home, depressed because they didn’t get the crown.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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Your Least Favorite (or Favorite) Policy

Evil HR Lady

I'm sure over our time in the working world, we've all run across some bizarre policies and practices. And some good ones as well. I love to hear about the craziness some companies foist onto their employees. So, I'm going to encourage you to tell me what you've run across. As a little incentive, our friends at the New Yorker have offered 5 (yes 5) Desk Calendars.

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It's a Job Interview, Not a Beauty Pageant

Evil HR Lady

In a beauty pageant, the judges look over a slate of contestants, ask them a few questions, perhaps have the contestants perform a talent of some sort, and then all the contestants parade around the stage in fancy dresses or bathing suits. At the end of all this, the judges proclaim a winner. She cries because it’s so wonderful and all the other contestants congratulate her and then slink back home, depressed because they didn’t get the crown.

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Your Least Favorite (or Favorite) Policy

Evil HR Lady

I'm sure over our time in the working world, we've all run across some bizarre policies and practices. And some good ones as well. I love to hear about the craziness some companies foist onto their employees. So, I'm going to encourage you to tell me what you've run across. As a little incentive, our friends at the New Yorker have offered 5 (yes 5) Desk Calendars.

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I'm Going Crazy--What's the Secret of Job Hunting?

Evil HR Lady

I’m trying to get a real full-time job after a 5-year string of part-time and temporary jobs since graduating from college. More accurately, I’ve been trying to get a real full-time job this whole time, but temporary and part-time jobs are all I can get. I can scarcely get an interview. The last of my money is gone, and I need a job RIGHT NOW. My question is, what does HR want to see on a resume?

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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I'm Going Crazy--What's the Secret of Job Hunting?

Evil HR Lady

I’m trying to get a real full-time job after a 5-year string of part-time and temporary jobs since graduating from college. More accurately, I’ve been trying to get a real full-time job this whole time, but temporary and part-time jobs are all I can get. I can scarcely get an interview. The last of my money is gone, and I need a job RIGHT NOW. My question is, what does HR want to see on a resume?

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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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Evil HR Lady Goes Political

Evil HR Lady

Okay, not really, as this is not a political blog. However, when I was greeted by this morning's headlines that my former home of Pennsylvania had just ousted Arlen Specter in the primary, I had to comment. Don't worry, it's not a political commentary, it's just that Your Job is Not as Safe as You Think it is.

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