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Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – October 28 thru November 3, 2012

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In case you missed this week’s articles, here is a summary:

 

Don’t Sit Still While You Think

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Weekender: Special Job Seeker Edition – Five previous articles posted on this site specifically target to the job seeker community. There are new posts in this series every Friday.


 

 

 

 

 


 

Unregulated Social Media vs. Regulated Mindset – The blogosphere has been glutted with opinions on company social media policies ever since the NLRB challenged some of them to be an unfair denial of the employee right to organize. We may debate the political aspects of non-elected government officials taking sides on such issues, but for most part this is a moot point since it is a non-issue for most companies. There are many companies that are their own worst enemy and need no outside antagonists to create drama.

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

What Leadership Is Not – What is leadership? The viewpoint used by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in the famous Jacobellis v. Ohio case in 1964 regarding pornography and obscenity comes to mind: “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description…  but I know it when I see it…“ Like other things that we weakly try to define, in many cases we understand a concept by observation rather than by definition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It Is Always A Good Time to Talk About Culture -  Halloween is probably as good a time as any to mention the contribution… or lack of it… of special company sponsored events. Not to be overly cynical about allowing workplace diversions for special days, we all recognize that the primary purpose of the day is to encourage greed, trickery and diabetic inducing eating practices in our children. Acknowledging that growing up does not mean the end of having fun, where do we draw the line?


Help Wanted: Employees Willing to Move Up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why Job Descriptions Fail – In one of those “Other duties as assigned” responsibilities at the bottom of my job description, I found myself heading up a program to build a course of instruction on job evaluation for plant engineers. My company, a large manufacturing corporation, used a modified point-factor system of job evaluation for manufacturing jobs that was not only complex in nature but sensitive because its adoption came about through a negotiated union buy-in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Job Seekers: Write a Script to Tell Your Story and Then Be the Star -  Everyone is unique. We go about living our lives and most of the time we follow rules which force us to appear like everyone else. We pride ourselves on being individuals and then conform to norms that make us all the same. A job search is no different. In order to be accepted as a serious candidate there must be a certain amount of adoption of the standards set by those who are hiring. A resume is probably one of the least effective elements of a job search but it is an essential evil. One of the most boring books I have ever read was a bound book of resumes from a university career placement center (unnamed because it is one of the biggies).