This is a re-posting of five previous articles from Make HR Happen.      The Four Pillars of Recruiting – The knee-jerk reaction to describing essential elements of a function is to think of the columns holding up some massive structure. This is understood to be a symbol of strength. A very supportive person is known as a “pillar of strength.†While somewhat overused by business to show the… Read More »Recruiting Redux – Archives v.3
In case you missed this week’s articles, here is a summary: The Weekender: Another Job Seeker Special Edition – Five previous articles posted on this site specifically target to the job seeker community. There are new posts in this series every Friday. Taming the Time-Suck – RSS Readers and More – If you are still fumbling around by manually crawling through sites looking for the information you… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – November 4 thru November 10, 2012
Answering the age old question about tailoring a resume to the job sounds good in theory until you try to do it. Obviously, hiring managers are looking for the right person for the job based on a variety of criteria and these change from company to company. Rather than be faced with an infinite number of varieties of job-matching resumes, most people will resort to the one-size-fits-all version. This is probably a pendulum swing toward… Read More »Stretch Your Resume, Not the Truth
I’ve never really appreciated the writing style that starts with a dictionary definition of a term or a speaker who starts by saying, “According to Webster…“ and then states the obvious. I usually resist the temptation to use the dictionary as a reference for anything other than to confirm that my stupid spell-checker was programmed by an illiterate high school dropout. Exceptions to this rule happen only when there is a thought so puzzling in… Read More »All Recruiting is Social
In one of those “Other duties as assigned†responsibilities at the bottom of my job description, I found myself heading up a program to build a course of instruction on job evaluation for plant engineers. My company, a large manufacturing corporation, used a modified point-factor system of job evaluation for manufacturing jobs that was not only complex in nature but sensitive because its adoption came about through a negotiated union buy-in. Having been brought to… Read More »Why Job Descriptions Fail