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Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – The Intertwining of HR and Job Search

The articles published this week spoke of optimism, learning, networking, advising and intervening. While there is a specific target audience to each of these, there is a thread running through them all that should pique interest from anyone associated with those looking for employment as well as Recruiting or Human Resources personnel. There must always be a mutual understanding from the other person’s perspective to be successful in these endeavors. What do you think? Mar… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – The Intertwining of HR and Job Search

Human Resources Interventions

This story begins with “Once upon a time…” but doesn’t end with “They lived happily ever after.” It may have been ended with “problem solved” but I seriously doubt it. Many, many years ago, a return to the office from lunch involved an elevator ride with some HR colleagues. Joining us in a crowded elevator were two women who brought their lunchtime conversation into the elevator with them. “I can’t believe that I’ve worked here… Read More »Human Resources Interventions

Mutual Mentorship

I recently wrote a 5-part series of on the topic of mentoring and that horse was sufficiently beaten to death before I was finished. It was a labor of love because I have always been a strong proponent of training in the workplace. I have not modified any of my thoughts since that time, but there is always something new or a different slant on a topic. Last week I read an excellent blog post… Read More »Mutual Mentorship

You Can’t Fake Optimism

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. ~ Vaclav Havel If you search online for inspirational quotes about optimism, you will find a bunch of crap proclaiming that without an optimistic viewpoint a person’s world will stop turning. Optimism is one of those misunderstood concepts that in and of… Read More »You Can’t Fake Optimism

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

Recent online discussions about recruiters and recruiter training meant throwing my two cents into the fray with a repeat of articles about recruiter excellence… going beyond the basics. There is also a need to go back to the basics from time to time, how we work with others, and to analyze where recruiting management is taking us. Can just anybody be taught to recruit? Could a troop of monkeys do as well as today’s recruiting… Read More »From the Archives of Make HR Happen – Those Times We Talked About Recruiting Basics