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VIDEO: Google for Jobs: What Do HR and Recruiting Leaders Need to Do Next?

Going video for you today - lots of buzz about Google for Jobs, what it means and what HR and Recruiting Leaders need to know. If you've got a big Indeed or Job Board spend, do you have to take... Continue reading

Posted 12 hours ago at The HR Capitalist

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When Companies Hire Above You To Make a Statement (or Force You Out)...

There's a lot of plays in the ole' Human Capital Management playbook. There are plays for recruits, high performers, difficult team members, managers, struggling performers and more.... This play is one that's run occasionally for low/struggling performers. It's called: "We're... Continue reading

Posted yesterday at The HR Capitalist

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Stuff the Capitalist (aka KD) Likes: Scrubs and Workplace References in TV/Movies

Who am I? Who cares? Good questions. It's my site, so I'm going dig in once in a awhile by telling you more about who I am - via a "Stuff I Like" series. Nothing too serious, just exploring the... Continue reading

Posted 4 days ago at The HR Capitalist

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UBER-ing: 5 Thoughts About Naming Your Primary Conference Room The WAR ROOM...

In case you missed it, one of the outcomes of the Uber fiasco - in addition to an indefinite leave for the CEO, departure of a board member for an inappropriate comment during an all-hands meeting among other things -... Continue reading

Posted 5 days ago at The HR Capitalist

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MESSED UP PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Wall Selfie in Workplace (Confidential)...

Yeah, so I travel a bit for work - and I always try and grab some photos. Ended up at a employer not to be named and took this one a few months back. To be fair, this wasn't in... Continue reading

Posted 6 days ago at The HR Capitalist

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Best Predictors of Higher Income Attainment in 12 Year Old Kids? Rule Breaking/Defiance of Parental Authority Of Course...

Ready for some science today? Of course you are. You want to be taken back to the college days where you'd figure out how to game the Dewey Decimal System to find the right cites for that lame research paper... Continue reading

Posted 7 days ago at The HR Capitalist

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HR PROBLEM: When LinkedIn Recruiter Doesn't Work For Your Team...

Here's a new world take on an old-world saying: "No one ever got fired for buying recruiting services from LinkedIn" That's a spin off on what our boomer fathers/mothers/grandparents used to say back in the day: "No one ever got... Continue reading

Posted Jul 17, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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Targeting Companies Doing Layoffs in Recruiting Strategy - Smart or Lame?

If there's ever been something that's generated a "yeah, duh" in the halls of corporate America, it is the following: "Company Z just announced a big layoff. We should go after them from a recruiting perspective." Well, yeah. No Sh##.... Continue reading

Posted Jul 14, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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NASHVILLE - What Happens When An Employment Market Becomes Too Cool For School....

If you know anything about the Southeast US where I live, there's a couple of big realities from a lifestyle/work perspective: --Atlanta is the capital --The Southeast is booming in general --There's no hotter market than Nashville, or as I... Continue reading

Posted Jul 13, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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PURE GOLD: On the Topic of Age Bias and Startup Culture...

Old people are..just so..so..so...old! Coming off a two-day blitz to finish some interviewing training, and what interviewing training would be complete without a section on non-Title VII bias that impacts us all? Turns out, science shows we all like a... Continue reading

Posted Jul 12, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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The Perils of Your Company Culture Becoming Sales-Focused (Above All Else)...

Nothing happens without sales. Treat your salespeople right, because unless they kill something, nobody eats. For the reasons stated above, it's not wrong for the leaders of your company to want to transform your culture into a sales machine. The... Continue reading

Posted Jul 10, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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PEOPLE STAT OF THE DAY: Jobs in The Steel Industry & Automation...

I'll just leave this here... 14 people make 500,000 tons of steel annually at a location in Austria. Not a typo. From BusinessWeek on automation in the steel industry: The Austrian village of Donawitz has been an iron-smelting center since... Continue reading

Posted Jun 30, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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Sleepy HR Pros Won't Spend More than 30 Seconds On This Post... (The Mary Meeker Slides)

Only the true players will spend 5 minutes or more with this post and it's referred content...It's deep, but pure gold... Kleiner Perkins general partner Mary Meeker launched the 22nd edition of the Internet Trends Report at the Code Conference... Continue reading

Posted Jun 27, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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The Boomerang Effect of Firing All The UBER Leaders...

By this time, you're all caught up on all the events happening at Uber. Uber-Harassment (couldn't resist), aggressive behavior, a big employee relations-style investigation by outside counsel and a bumbled all-hands meeting that included an HR leader calling for everyone... Continue reading

Posted Jun 26, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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HOW TO: Use Social Media Ad Buys to Get Better Recruiting Results...

My team at Kinetix is dropping a whitepaper today - The Talent Acquisition/HR Leader's Guide To Social Media Buys for Recruiting. You should check it out. There's a lot of options for your recruitment marketing spend - Job Boards, Indeed,... Continue reading

Posted Jun 22, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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Google For Jobs Launches: Are You Going to Nap On This For the Next Year?

It's go time for Google for Jobs. Earlier this year at Google I/O, the search giant announced a new initiative named Google for Jobs. The goal is simple: leverage Google’s skills at organizing information to make finding jobs easier. Today,... Continue reading

Posted Jun 20, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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Happy Father's Day, You Low Emotive SOB...

Father's Day is Sunday. My dad passed away in 2005, but every now and then I get a reminder of how solid of a guy he was. One thing about Kent Dunn - like a lot of guys born in... Continue reading

Posted Jun 16, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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Unlimited PTO - More For the Employer or the Employee?

Check out a recent post I did at my other site - Fistful of Talent - on the optics of unlimited PTO - what it means for companies over employees and more. Here's a taste: In my darkest moments, I’m... Continue reading

Posted Jun 15, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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New Growth Area In Executive Search: The Search Where All Viable Candidates Are Known!!!!

I must say - as someone who helps run a recruiting firm, there are always a few types of searches that surprise me. It's a field where you're always learning. One of those surprises is the past few years is... Continue reading

Posted Jun 13, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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Steve Kerr's CEO Approval Rating on Glassdoor Would be 100% (#NBAfinals)

Part of engagement and building the modern organization is ensuring that the rank and file in your company approve of your leadership. This is why Glassdoor has the CEO approval rating, etc. Leadership approval ratings are driven by a host... Continue reading

Posted Jun 12, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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Jobvite Publishes New & Needed Source of Hire Data (#RNL17)

As I mentioned earlier this week, I'm just coming off a couple of days at Recruiter Nation Live 2017, a conference put on by the good folks at Jobvite. Great show and good people, glad I went. Unrelated to the... Continue reading

Posted Jun 9, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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Anyone Can Be a Recruiter, Right? (#RNL17)

It's a profession with limited barriers to entry and literally a million agency/corporate positions available. It's a profession where the hardest workers and the most entrepreneurial usually get the best results. It's a profession looked at with disdain by many... Continue reading

Posted Jun 8, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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Sometimes Great Teammates Decide To Let Co-Workers Live With the Consequences of Stupid Decisions...

Sometime after your first year with your company, you start to settle in. All the onboarding is complete, the honeymoon is over and you've accurately assessed your job as a mix of positives and negatives. If you're still there and... Continue reading

Posted Jun 6, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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Google vs Uber: Why High Performers with Non-Competes Are Always At Risk When Joining New Companies....

There's this old idea that non-competes and most types of NDA/IP agreements are either flimsy or negotiable. While that may true in some cases, my experience is that you can get sleepy/lazy related to how you consider these as an... Continue reading

Posted Jun 5, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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Stuff the Capitalist (aka KD) Likes: Ryen Russillo

Who am I? Who cares? Good questions. It's my site, so I'm going dig in once in a awhile by telling you more about who I am - via a "Stuff I Like" series. Nothing too serious, just exploring the... Continue reading

Posted Jun 2, 2017 at The HR Capitalist

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