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Misbehavioral Interviewing

Several years ago I was on the interviewee side of the table talking to a hi-tech aerospace firm about a job as a recruiting manager for one of their divisions. After surviving on the corporate recruiter side of the interview table for years I was surprised at how totally unprepared I was for this. I had led teams of recruiters, conducted manager interview training, and had been totally immersed in the Targeted Selection® behavioral interviewing… Read More »Misbehavioral Interviewing

Balance Your Social Media Universe

Researching this article has been a challenge to my ability to focus on anything for long periods of time. I am the kind of person that will find a useless item out of place in my office while looking for my car keys and after a fit of obsessive compulsive tinkering still have not found my keys. Freud would probably diagnose this as anal retentive behavior, so I am glad that others have challenged his… Read More »Balance Your Social Media Universe

From the Archives of Make HR Happen – Those Times We Talked About Branding

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I saw two people online debating the topic of branding. It may as well have been about calf roping and branding because neither knew what the other was talking about. We call so many things by a single definition and branding is one of the most confusing. Is it necessary? Yes. Is it not necessary? Yes. When we begin the debate about personal branding, the definition is clear but its value is relative to the… Read More »From the Archives of Make HR Happen – Those Times We Talked About Branding

Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – All About Social Media

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Ask any group of people to define social media and there will be as many answers as there are people in the group. That is not a bad thing. It is different things to different people. There are arguments and agreements, problems and solutions, challenges and responses… that sounds just like real life, doesn’t it? It is actually an artificial reality that mimics real life and the value of the exchange will always depend on… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – All About Social Media

What Is Next in Social Media?

The only thing that limits the expansion of social media is the human brain and expanding technology to meet the needs of communication and curiosity. Today’s social media usage has gone far beyond science fiction of a few years ago, so perhaps there is a clue into how future needs will be met in the fiction writer’s brain… or the technology geek. There are also dark clouds on the horizon if we allow technology to… Read More »What Is Next in Social Media?