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Using Social Media to Recruit is Challenging Because…
Image Credit: <www.massrelevance.com> …Life is about relationships. HR Analyst John Sumser recently wrote a great article touching on some of the reasons that social recruiting hasn’t really...
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Helicopter Parents Are Wonderful
Image Credit: <parentables.howstuffworks.com> Lately I’ve been hearing a lot about helicopter parents. The thinking among employers seems to be that helicopter parent coddling is an unwelcome...
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Nine Questions With the HR Field Guide
As part of his popular “nine questions” series, I recently had the opportunity to do an interview with Erik Smetana, an Experienced Cross-Sector HR Strategist & Leader. Erik is a Director of HR at...
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Value Versus Perception of Value
Image Credit: <freelancefolder.com> As the 2008 financial crisis (and many other events throughout human history) have shown us, much of our economy functions on perception. Our confidence in an...
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Perspective
Image Credit: <www.cloudbzz.com> 1. It’s called the endowment effect.It is often difficult to benchmark the quality of something. 1 We overvalue the assets we possess relative to what we would...
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Retention 101: Pay People Fairly, Not “Competitively”
Image Credit: <idiva.com> Jim Brennan over at the Compensation Cafe recently recently did some compensation evangelizing about a topic I have strong convictions around: The importance of paying...
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Do You Use Personality Tests in Your Hiring Process?
Image Credit: <thebullbustercafe.com> I love personality tests. They are (typically) a lot of fun to both read and take… but beyond that I believe that to know oneself is to learn from weaknesses...
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Is it Ever a Good Idea to Over-Hire?
Hiring talent that is overqualified for a job can lead to bottlenecks in the talent pipeline *and* job dissatisfaction. Image Credit: <www.xda-developers.com> Steve Boese has a great article up...
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Linkedin is the Future of Recruiting
Image Credit: <www.jayninelessons.com> I don’t make a secret of the fact that I’m a *huge* fan of Linkedin. Here’s a quick rundown of why: It has a relatively wide Economic Moat, so any company...
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Video Saturday: Laszlo Bock on How Google’s Hiring Process Works
Image Credit: <resources.rpoassociation.org> As a brief aside, a year ago today I wrote my first post for rorytrotter.com. Since that date, I have shared content or written about the function...
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