Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – To Teach I Must Also Learn

Some blog posts are written to be cathartic. When I write about a topic it is usually the result of research and soul searching. While the purpose of sharing ideas is to raise consciousness on certain areas of my profession, there is always an element of organizing thought processes by recording them for future reference. This week for this blogger has been very reflective. Highs and lows in the satisfaction of expectations are supposed to balance out in the end, but the knee jerk reaction for me is usually to accept the successes as gifts and work on looking for reasons for the failures. Getting in touch with the basics means listening to others and also incorporating personal thoughts to challenge where I’ve been and plot where I’m going next. Hopefully the articles posted this week don’t look too warmed over because they are rewritten or reprised for a reason… at least for me. Comments are as usual are welcome to anything posted here… teach me something new and tell me where I’m wrong.

Image credit: rtimages / 123RF Stock Photo

---

June 10 - A Book Report: The Psychology of Job Hunting by Recruiting Animal – If you just want a recommendation instead of reading a crappy story about a book I read, just buy this thing… just do it! I paid for my copy of the book, I get nothing for pushing it, there is no reason I can think of that I need to suck up to Animal, but as a job seeker advocate I highly recommend you own a copy of The Psychology of Job Hunting if you are in a job search. – more –

 

 

June 11 – Another Presumptuous Bit of Unsolicited Advice to SHRM – Last week Gerry Crispin penned a blog post Advice to SHRM: Drop Barriers between members and non-members. He mentioned that it was a bit presumptuous to offer anyone public advice, but he also openly wondered about crowdsourcing advice to SHRM. As I was preparing a comment on his article two things became apparent: First of all, my reply was becoming almost as long as his entire post, and in addition I began to dangerously push the boundaries of his single issue design… to tear down barriers between members and non-members. – more –

 

June 12 – Four Reasons Why Recruiters Need to Look for a New Job – Recruiters come in all shapes, sizes and varieties but they all have one thing in common: They all need to look for a new job. Whether the recruiter lives on a large corporate org chart or is an independent floater they need to be engaged in looking for those greener pastures. This goes for the agency guru, sourcing experts, yeoman full-cycle consulting/advising/contracting recruiters and even corporate recruiting managers. – more –

 

 

June 13 - Five Ways Recruiters Think From the Candidate Perspective – There is no better laboratory to study human nature than a situation in which one person is in need and another person holds the key to fulfilling that need. Some examples that immediately come to mind are that of a parent and child, a teacher and pupil, or a doctor and patient. It is not a stretch of this concept to suggest that the relationship between a recruiter and candidate is similar. – more –