To steal a line from Laurie Ruettimann, if there was one word I would like to punch in the face as hard as I can it would be “gamification.” It is one of those topics that makes me feel like the world has been overtaken by alien bodysnatchers and I am the last human standing. Do [...]
There is a lot of buzz about the Millennial Generation and many attempts have been made to characterize them one way or another. Attempts to predict what type of impact they will have on society and the workplace. But I think these gross generalizations are ridiculous, and most likely the survey data is skewed to [...]
During my twenty years in Human Resources, much of my focus has been in the area of Recruiting. I have been a corporate recruiter, a 3rd party recruiter, a recruiting manager, and a consultant to the recruiting function. In all those years and even today, I often hear about how broken recruiting is. You hear [...]
It’s hard to believe it is already May 1st, and today marks the launch of the 2nd annual Candidate Experience Awards process. If you are unfamiliar, this the industry award that recognizes companies for the way in which they treat their job applicants. But it is so much more than just an award. Two years ago I [...]
In a post a few weeks ago I lamented about what is wrong with recruiting. About how the reactive nature of filling requisitions combined with business need for talent puts us in situations where we are hiring nearly complete strangers. With so many requisitions and so little time, we must quickly assess candidates and make [...]
Back in November Jobvite published some results from their job seeker survey. From a national survey of more than 1,200 people in the workforce, the data suggests that more people use Facebook to find job opportunities than LinkedIn (48% to 26%). I scratched my head a little, because this did not really jive with my perception of [...]
I have known Bill Kutik for nearly 15 years. We first met at the International Resumix User Group meeting in Monterey, CA in the late 90′s. I sat at a table in the Exhibit room, homemade company logo on a cardboard sign, in front of a pile of articles I had recently written. Just across [...]
Over the last couple of weeks I have been listening to a very interesting audio book, What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell. It is a compilation of a bunch of his articles that were published in The New Yorker. The collection covers a wide variety of topics on everything from Cesar Milan, The Dog Whisperer [...]
Annie Ayerst has been in the recruiting and HR field for more than twenty years. We met through a client relationship and she became a repeat customer of The Newman Group shortly after moving to Orange County, CA to join The Irivne Company as the Senior Director of Staffing. She was one of those customers [...]
Before starting The Newman Group I held four previous jobs. I only had to go through a traditional hiring process for one of them. I responded to an ad, had a phone call with a recruiter, two rounds of interviews, and I got the offer. I have not been on that side of the fence [...]
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Great Books
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox, David Whitford
The Art of War: With Commentaries by James Clavell by Sun Tzu, Sun Zi, James Clavell(Editor), James Clavell(Editor), James Clavell(Commentaries by)
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss, Ray Porter(Read by)
American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by H. W. Brands
