Human Resources (HR) people work with human beings. Because of that perspective, HR people have not been among the first to jump on the social media bandwagon. However, it enhances their ability to recruit people. It is a natural. Although HR has many different responsibilities, one of them, of course, is to protect the company for whom they work from [...]

Social Media has become an integral part of the way we live and work. It is hard to imagine that it is only twenty years since the Internet was created. According to Nielsen research, social network traffic grew by 43% from June 2009 to June 2010. Social network activity now dwarfs online games, email and search as the number one [...]

When the love bug bites two employees, it is often left to managers and HR personnel to deal with the consequences of the office romance. It is not an uncommon situation. A CareerBuilder.com survey revealed that nearly 40% of participants had dated a co-worker, and 18% admitted to having at least 2 inter-office relationships. What does all that dating at [...]

Are you or your company breaking the law when you use social networking sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and others to recruit for new candidates and/or screen job applicants? Federal anti-discrimination laws assert that companies can’t discriminate individuals that fall into any of the “protected classes” that include age, sex, religion, race, disabilities, and others. Let’s look at a [...]

A few weeks back, I mentioned that I was visiting Australia and was soo excited about it. Well, I am back and still buzzing over the experience!!! I made a video about it (I know, what are the odds of that?) and wanted to share it with you. Check it out and let me know what you think? Thanks! Related [...]

For years companies have tried hiring freshly transitioned military veterans although found a high-level of difficulty cracking the code of military identifiers and how those identifiers relate to their open positions. After implementing Veterans.jobs and MilitaryFamily.jobs, I was approached by Carrie Corbin from AT&T, a DirectEmployers member company, and asked if we could adapt the Veterans.jobs Military Crosswalk technology to [...]

Every employer experiences turnover. But how do you determine if your attrition is “normal” or average, or if there is something more serious going on with the staff or work environment? Turnover can be very costly to a practice. With each employee who leaves, much time and money go out the door with that person. Being short-staffed can be particularly [...]

The number of applicants to MBA programs worldwide measures in the thousands. More than 5,000 universities offer the MBA degree, and they naturally want to enhance or build their academic reputations by attracting the best students. A small number of top-tier schools-the Ivy League schools and major state universities-typically have no problem with applications. The best schools receive so many [...]