It has been a little more than 18 months since leaving my last position to become an unemployed blogger. In that time I wrote a few hundred blog posts and in the process launched a community portal for the Talent Management Technology industry. If you have been following Accidental Entrepreneur or InsideTMT, you may be wondering where [...]
Talent Communities are all the rage. It seems you can’t visit a corporate careers site without getting invited to join one. But there is still quite a bit of debate as to what a talent community really is, who does it benefit, and do they really ever work. Over the course of the last several weeks [...]
Over the last year or two I have been looking closely at the trends in the talent management technology market. Things like Social, Mobile, and Gamification. I have to admit that I have been a little skeptical. At some point won’t people get tired of being so social? Isn’t the laptop already pretty mobile? And [...]
If you are an employer and wonder about this question, there is an easy way to find out. Stop what you are doing and complete the Employer survey for the 2012 Candidate Experience Awards. For this small investment of your time, you will receive a benchmark report of how your practices stack up against your peers. But [...]
When Resumix made it’s debut circa 1990 with an artificially intelligent search engine, the concept of automatic match was born. It’s when the computer takes data from a requisition/job description and uses a black box algorithm to match it up with the data from a resume/profile. You used to hear vendors say things like “with our proprietary [...]
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 [...]
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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
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American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by H. W. Brands
