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Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Times Are Tough But Life Goes On

This was a particularly rough week for many with ties to the Boston area. When tragedy strikes many people don’t know how to react. There are a few who immediately begin making tasteless jokes and at the other extreme there are people who totally lapse into melodramatic, tear-jerking drivel. Fortunately, many who “get it” can show their sorrow and anger, but then help to lead us back to the reality that times are tough but… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Times Are Tough But Life Goes On

From the Archives of Make HR Happen – Those Times We Bowed to Administrivia

I have been accused of making up the term “administrivia” probably because I have a habit of making up words that are better descriptors of the way things are than the usual boring terms we have learned. Kids are cute when they make up words for things they don’t know or understand, but about the time we give up being cute we also begin to conform to the way everybody else uses words. According to… Read More »From the Archives of Make HR Happen – Those Times We Bowed to Administrivia

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

What Job Seekers Really Want

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This is the article that shouldn’t be written. At least the timing is absolutely wrong for so many reasons, but the frustration of “paying it forward” when nobody cares eventually grinds the true caring person inside of me to a halt. I spent last weekend reading Harvey Mackay’s book Dig Your Well Before You’re Thirsty because it is one of those classic networking books that I have quoted without having read the book from cover… Read More »What Job Seekers Really Want

From the Archives of Make HR Happen – Those Times We Challenged Mediocrity

An inside joke is one shared by a few people that will instantly draw howls of laughter… but only if you happen to be an insider. One such incident was in my Army days when a bunch of us smart but rebellious officer candidates banded together as a protection against indiscriminate harassment by the TAC officers. One day we were called out for being a group of the “…most mediocre soldiers I have ever seen!”… Read More »From the Archives of Make HR Happen – Those Times We Challenged Mediocrity