This is a re-posting of five previous articles from Make HR Happen.
Recruiters: Think From the Candidate Perspective - There is no better laboratory to study human nature than a situation where 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. While there will be variables to this analogy, the person in the recruiter or recruiter surrogate position, including supervisors and managers, will often assume a psychologically superior role (Parent) to the dependent personality (Child). – more –
Looking for Work-Life Balance in All the Wrong Places –  Humanity has evolved from the practice of learning at the feet of great masters to one of falling for any concept that has a catchy sound bite. Plato was a student of Socrates and his comments regarding multitasking were probably meant to be instructive to his followers. We can assume that the point of this lesson was to correct what he saw as an error in thinking on their part. We haven’t learned very much in 2,400 years. Modern society has not only ignored this lesson it has generally embraced the concept of multitasking. – more -Â
Your Networking Galaxy – If somebody were to ask me what galaxy I was from, I would probably state with a straight face that I am originally from a planet circling a remote star in the outer spiral of the pinwheel M-101 Galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major about 25 million light years from Earth. It is a family joke that I’m really an alien and someday the mother ship will come and take me home. Actually, I started this story as a response to my sister who claims that I am so strange that I must have been adopted. – more –
The Information Tsunami -  Sometimes it is hard to realize just how far we have come in such a short period of time. There is an urban legend that the former commissioner for the U.S. Patent Office recommended in 1899 that the Patent Office be closed down because everything that could be invented had already been invented. We consider ourselves to be modern and sophisticated because of the gadgets we use and the technology we know, but in a way that is just as shortsighted as the 112 year old idea that we brush aside. – more –
Trisomy-18 – A Personal Story – Please pardon the break from the usual professional topics while I share a part of me in a weekend off-topic article. This just happens to be on my mind right now. When we heard that my daughter and her husband were expecting their first baby, we were overjoyed. I could flash back to a mental image of her as a child standing in her room “teaching†from a blackboard to her little brother and a classroom of dolls and stuffed animals lined up on her bed beside him. A hamster was auditing the course from her dresser. The class size was rather small but it was not a large room. I always knew that she would be either a teacher, a mother or both. – more –
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