As the week draws to a close and the last of the jet lag ebbs away, I’m compelled to put finger to key and share some initial thoughts from my trip last week to the HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas. I have more to say on some of these highlights but for now, this…
Drawing parallels between HR and Marketing is not new. David Fairhurst recognised this when he ran resourcing for GlaxoSmithKline back in the late 90’s and was one of the first people in the HR profession to acknowledge and put into practice the beneifts of learning from your marketing colleagues when developing the employer value proposition.…
In the closing session of the HR Technology Conference and Expo in Vegas, Jason Averbook told a nice little story that illustrated the difference between perception and reality nicely. He was talking about his time at Peoplesoft, and how, at a certain point in time, Peoplesoft had made their way into the much-coveted top right…
In years to come, when we look back and reflect on the impact of the social era, there will be a number of things that we will strongly identify with this period that changed the way we looked at the world, forever. And for me, one of those things will be transparency. If you are…
I’ve never really been big on the whole employer brand business. Obviously there is a purpose served in some way by trying to encapsulate what it’s like to work at an organisation and I think there has been some good work done in this area here and there. Otherwise, for me, most of the stuff…
Working with startups has made me reflect a lot on the similarities between now and the former dot com boom period of the late 90’s. In doing so I’m driven to speculate what the next big thing is and when the next significant shift will happen. Lets look at the timeline. Check out my crappographic…
Yesterday I came across a post entitled “5 things about Social Media you need to stop saying in 2012.” via a tweet by @socialhonesty by a guy called Edward Bass An interesting post and I don’t have a big issue with some of his points (Ed would love to see email usurped by social comms so he must…
You may have heard of Engage for Success, a government backed and Industry led initiative led by David MacLeod and Nita Clark to look at how we can improve overall levels of engagement within organisations and turn that into a competitive advantage for the UK. I recently attended a meeting of engagement “guru’s” (Yuk!) and…
If you are involved in resourcing, whether in house or on the supply side, you won’t have failed to have noticed the big shift and conversation around direct resourcing. You will also, I’m sure, have come across many conversations about the candidate experience, or lack of it – see here for a cracking summary on…
Unfortunately I cant make #TRULondon today which is a big shame as Bill was kind enough to offer me a track this time round. The good news is that social media means I can at least participate from afar. However, commitments mean I cant jump on the twitter stream much today so I thought I…
