There is a part of me that is regretting the decision not to go to Las Vegas for the SHRM ‘11 conference. The convention is so big there is something for everybody regardless of specialty area. However, part of the conflict in my mind is that I am too interested in everything HR, but in reality my niche is in sourcing and recruiting. It would be difficult to choose whether to expand my knowledge in… Read More »SHRM ‘11, HR and Recruiting
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… Read More »Trisomy-18 – A Personal Story
Long ago in a far-away galaxy, companies would have their recruiters write recruitment ads for newspapers. They waited for the mail each day, opened the envelopes carefully, and began sorting paper into various stacks indicating levels of interest or non-interest. Job seekers would pick up the Sunday papers from local and out-of-town cities, sit at the kitchen table with colored markers to circle the best jobs in the want-ads, and stuff envelopes with nicely printed… Read More »Job Seekers: Think Like a Recruiter – Part 7
We live in an age when everything and everyone must fit neatly into labeled buckets. There isn’t much room to wiggle out of the label planted on groups of people and if the term does not seem to fit we arbitrarily redefine the words. For example, what is a minority? Women are not a “minority†in terms of population, however there was a time that women were in the minority in the workforce and as… Read More »From the Greatest Generation To the Degraded Generation
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… Read More »The Information Tsunami