What Job Seekers Really Want
This is the article that shouldn’t be written. At least the timing is absolutely wrong for so many reasons, but the frustration of “paying it forward” when nobody cares eventually grinds the true...
View ArticleReviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – The People Interface
This was not exactly “Theme Week” on Make HR Happen, but as always there was a core concept of analyzing interpersonal relationships that make us do what we do. Human resources is probably the most...
View ArticleWhat They Don’t Want You to Know
We have all seen the infomercial lead-in for a miracle snake oil cure-all in which a white coated actor declares, “This is the secret formula that they don’t want you to know about!” Feeding the flames...
View ArticleSlaying Your Dragons in 10 Easy Steps: A Job Search Tutorial
Our images of dragons have two possible sources: Mythology or an actual incident that by the game of gossip has been exaggerated into the fire breathing monsters we see in movies. Contributors to...
View ArticleReviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Times Are Tough But Life Goes On
This was a particularly rough week for many with ties to the Boston area. When tragedy strikes many people don’t know how to react. There are a few who immediately begin making tasteless jokes and at...
View ArticleNetworking: Not Just For Personal Gain
A common misconception is to consider organizations and their components as living, breathing, independently acting beings. The Supreme Court of the US may have granted corporations the same rights as...
View ArticleNetworking: The Job Search Imperative
So, you think spending a few minutes applying to jobs through a job board is a complete job search plan? Think again. Job boards are still a valuable part of the process, but the usefulness of this...
View ArticleReviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Thinking Outside of the Network
Making a stab at covering all aspects of networking led to a five part series on the topic. Although each article was banging on the gate to be let out into the wild, I tamed them into showing up on...
View ArticleFrom the Archives of Make HR Happen – Those Times We Talked About Twitter
When anyone asks me the open ended question, “Where do you live?” the most correct answer would probably be “On Twitter.” While I am probably not as addicted to this platform as some other people I...
View ArticleA Job Search Requires More Than One Lens
All of us are people-watchers at one time or another. We can find amusement in watching people perform in their own one-act unrehearsed and unplanned play as they stumble through life unaware that...
View ArticleReviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Watching People Everywhere
If there is a line between stalking and people watching, I probably test those boundaries from time to time. There is a library of characters in my brain, probably for that unwritten great American...
View ArticleEgoism: Enemy of Employment
One truth that we live by is that we need to look out for Number One… if we don’t toot our own horn nobody else will do it for us. It seems that we have all suffered from the perception that our trust...
View ArticleReviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Exploring the -isms
Looking at a cross section of factors in the world of work is a rich source of -isms that are always topics of concern. How much new thought can be generated about the stars of these shows? Racism,...
View ArticleSocial Recruiting: Justification by the Numbers
When everybody professes to be an expert on a topic there is a high probability that nobody is really an expert. Finding hard data to support a social recruiting program is a never ending quest. It is...
View ArticleReviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Exploring Social Recruiting
From time to time I pick out a timely topic and give it a try. I was an early adopter to the concept of using social media in recruiting. I’m not sure who put together the term Social Recruiting but it...
View ArticleSetting Expectations: Triage of Recruiting from All Sides
The word triage is obviously French in origin and may have originated on the battlefield during the Napoleonic Wars. By the time World War I became a reality, the term in its medical sense was in...
View ArticleSetting Expectations: Defining Job Requirements
A common lament from job seekers is that they have no idea from a posted job description whether or not they are qualified for the position. Of course, a certain amount of this stems from wishful...
View ArticleDefining Expectations: Recruiters as a Constant Career Companion
If it is done right, the bond of trust that is built between a recruiter and candidate for hire is stronger than almost any others that happen after the hire. A recruiter is not a social worker, but...
View ArticleReviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Setting and Managing Expectations
Marriages fail because of unfulfilled expectations. There is an old joke that men marry women hoping that they will never change and women marry men hoping that they can change them. Well neither of...
View ArticleWhat Do You Want To Do When You Grow Up? (Reprise)
There is an old joke that most stand-up comedians have “borrowed” from time to time which goes something like this: “Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because...
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