Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – November 18 thru November 24, 2012

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recruiting Redux – This is a re-posting of five previous articles from Make HR Happen.

 

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To Degree, or Not To Degree. That Is The Question. – One of the hottest topics of today seems to be whether or not a college degree is really necessary. The current heightened activity in this dialog… or rather, monologue… is happening for several reasons. Hopefully, the fleeting political rhetoric will soon die down now that the U.S. elections are over, but every four years we revisit the concept that somehow education is a right even though there is no constitutional guarantee or legal reason to substantiate it.

 

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Music Resources Is Human Resources  – My life has always been musical in some way or another. I successfully completed my development in utero without benefit of the current trend of playing classical music to the unborn, but somehow there was some sort of cosmic influence that compelled me to bang on pots and pans and sing from an early age. Neither of my parents were musicians, so if my interests and talents came from them it was a recessive gene.

 

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Hey Boss! You Missed More Than an Annual Review – Recently I completed writing a three part series on Performance Management, but I’m almost positive that Scott Adams, the insightful genius creator of the Dilbert comic strip, did not read it. In fact, from the lower than usual stats for those three days I’m also fairly certain that nobody else of importance did either. My comments that this may have stepped on a few toes could be the reason, but I think the basic reason for the lack of interest is that it is a b-o-o-o-ring subject.

 

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All Thanks Are Not Equal – I am thankful that we have a day dedicated to thanks. We all know people that are not so inclined to be thankful by nature and on this day they are reminded to spout the usual sappy Hallmark thank-you platitudes to anyone who does not have diabetes or a weak stomach. Maybe I was wrong by thinking that it is way too early for TV Scrooge Marathons running back-to-back until Christmas because there is something very scroogy about Thanksgiving as well.

 

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Job Seekers and the Sisyphean Slippery Slope – A Greek myth as related by me… in a nutshell – Historically, Sisyphus was the founder and King of Corinth. According to Greek mythology, he was a very bad dude (not a literal translation). Those were tough times, but even in that day he was seen as a thug, murdering travelers passing through his city just on a whim. Nothing was sacred to him and even the gods knew him as a cunning trickster.

 

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