Search Results for "human resources"
- Job Title Inflation and the Dawning of the New Workforce
Date: January 19, 2010 | Section: Blog
The previous post we focused on the issue of job title inflation and the impact on companies’ talent management practices. However, there are greater implications for the way companies themselves are structured that will significantly shape the workplace of the future.
Job title inflation is symptomatic of two significant shifts in the workforce. One is a [...] - Job Title Inflation Index Is Off the Charts
Date: January 18, 2010 | Section: Blog
We have become the culture of the Chief Anything Officer. Case in point is the proliferation of magazines dedicated to various Chief Something or Other Officers. But does it serve a business purpose?
Businesses are evolving at a furious pace to adapt to an ever increasingly competitive marketplace. The demands have been amplified as more and [...] - The Value of Resumes in the World of Social Media
Date: January 13, 2010 | Section: Blog
Some months back, I had an interesting discussion with a HR professional about the relevance of resumes in an age of social media. Some folks are traditionalists, but I make no apologies when I state that the resume is dead and job seekers (and HR professionals) better get on board with social media.
I look at [...] - Why Measuring Talent is Inherently Fairer
Date: January 12, 2010 | Section: Blog
The way companies evaluate measure is a sham. This comes to mind today because I was reading a post recently that took issue with the idea of quantifying talent because it makes decision makers lazy and that not everything that is important can be measured. While I agree that an overreliance on numbers can be [...]
- Resume Scanning Going the Way of the Dodo
Date: January 10, 2010 | Section: Blog
Companies are still on the resume scanning kick. Through more advanced analytical techniques and more complex technologies, it is thought that resume scanning can bring about higher quality candidates while reducing time and effort spent on low quality candidates.
Unfortunately, these tools do not work as advertised. Resume scanning fails because of rampant “Resume Scamming”. When 50% [...] - What War for Talent?
Date: January 8, 2010 | Section: Blog
After reading some recent Twitter traffic, I was inspired to post my own thoughts on the matter. As 2010 kicks off and normalcy reigns, companies are going to get back to business as usual. And once again, the “War for Talent” will rage once more.
Or will it? In 1997, McKinsey coined the term based on [...] - An Audacious Idea: Trust Your Employees
Date: January 6, 2010 | Section: Blog
Do you trust your employees? With a recent report from The Conference Board stating that only 45% of US employees are satisfied with their jobs, a number that has been steadily declining over the past 20 years, there is something bigger going on here, and it comes down to trust.
The human resources field at one [...] - An Audacious Idea: Performance Reviews are a Waste of Time
Date: January 4, 2010 | Section: Blog
Raise your hand if you love performance reviews. Wait, you mean you do not love arbitrary, illogical, incomprehensible, biased, capricious, political and subjective assessments of your work?
It is no surprise that performance reviews are the least enjoyable of corporate exercises, painful for both employees and managers. It is foisted upon the unwilling by human resources [...] - The Job Description Calamity
Date: December 29, 2009 | Section: Blog
Now that the season for 2010 predictions is over, I want to follow-up the The Resume Inflation Index post. Let it be known that job descriptions are the leading cause of this inflation.
What is resume inflation? It is the act of bolstering credentials of a job seeker by adding lies and exaggerations to a resume. [...] - The Future of Human Capital…in 2020
Date: December 28, 2009 | Section: Blog
It is not only the end of the year, but the end of the first decade of a new millennium. While many are thinking about next year’s big things in Human Capital, I figured it would be fun to peer into the future to see what changes are afoot for our next decade. So let’s [...]