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Tom Bolt

Off the Grid: Not Necessarily HR – Normal Parenting

As someone who has tried to unravel the complexity of interpersonal relations in human resources, I wouldn’t touch the conflict over progressive parenting with a ten foot pole. There probably should be a reservoir of full of ten foot poles created to be forcibly distributed to every self-professed expert that cashes in on opinions about how we are doing it all wrong and have been forever. People are different. Any theory on parenting will be… Read More »Off the Grid: Not Necessarily HR – Normal Parenting

Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Bestowing Recruiterhood

This week has been a week of vacation time for many… including this writer. Damn that commitment to blog daily! Oh well, I can look over some of the more popular posts of the past, warm them up, and serve them as leftovers. Whether you consider recruiterhood as an art, a science, a business, or just a confusing thing that somebody else does, it is a profession that has intricate parts and all of these… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Bestowing Recruiterhood

The Four Pillars of Recruiting

(On vacation this week. This article reposted from May 20, 2011) The knee-jerk reaction to describing essential elements of a function is to think of the columns holding up some massive structure. This is understood to be a symbol of strength. A very supportive person is known as a “pillar of strength.” While somewhat overused by business to show the strength of ideas, it also has the ability to show how complicated situations can be… Read More »The Four Pillars of Recruiting

Declaring and Maintaining Freedom

(On vacation this week. This article reposted from July 4, 2012) On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia and voted to legally separate the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain. In today’s world, the news would have been tweeted around the world in seconds, but for those days taking an additional two days to prepare the formal announcement was actually something like traveling at light speed. As a student of history, it… Read More »Declaring and Maintaining Freedom

Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 3: Personal Add-ons

(On vacation this week. This article reposted from October 5, 2011) I have used the analogy of software add-ons to describe how we can take excellence, add something that is not part of the original design and improve the product. Some recruiter add-ons are professional in nature and there is not much of a stretch to dovetail them into the main characteristics of the profession. They fit like a glove, but are not absolutely necessary… Read More »Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 3: Personal Add-ons