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Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Exploring Social Recruiting

From time to time I pick out a timely topic and give it a try. I was an early adopter to the concept of using social media in recruiting. I’m not sure who put together the term Social Recruiting but it probably had something to do with #socialrecruiting using fewer characters than #socialmediarecruiting. For all the years that I have called myself a recruiter it has always been social. If you don’t have a dialog… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Exploring Social Recruiting

Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Thinking Outside of the Network

Making a stab at covering all aspects of networking led to a five part series on the topic. Although each article was banging on the gate to be let out into the wild, I tamed them into showing up on five consecutive days… not an easy task. Did I miss anything? My network will probably let me know. I also hope that I unintentionally stole ideas from other people because that proves the point that… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Thinking Outside of the Network

Networking: Not Just For Personal Gain

A common misconception is to consider organizations and their components as living, breathing, independently acting beings. The Supreme Court of the US may have granted corporations the same rights as an individual, but they are not able to prescribe how that is supposed to work without human interaction. Without people they would not exist at all. If it is essential for individuals to network to carve out a brand image, how important is it for… Read More »Networking: Not Just For Personal Gain

Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – The People Interface

This was not exactly “Theme Week” on Make HR Happen, but as always there was a core concept of analyzing interpersonal relationships that make us do what we do. Human resources is probably the most difficult to manage of all the assets that a company has in its inventory. This eclectic set of articles follows various aspects of managing people, understanding their motivations, and giving appropriate responses. First we started with dealing with problem people,… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – The People Interface

Nimbility

The word “nimbility” is not in the dictionary. I know because I invented it 15 years ago in a presentation to a client about how to become more nimble in their ability to hire the best talent. A Google search today will find that other people are using that term, but I probably can’t cry foul or plagiarism.  It is just a logical conclusion reached independently by people who never allow a conventional vocabulary to… Read More »Nimbility