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Considering a Contingent Career

About the time that the current boomer generation came into existence in the mid-1940’s, William Kelly placed his first “Kelly Girl” office temps with a client. How times have changed. By 1990 this had grown to the proportion of 1 in 13 new jobs categorized as temps and Manpower, Inc. became larger than General Electric. In 2005 the U.S. Department of Labor released a special study providing a definitive analysis of the contingent workforce and… Read More »Considering a Contingent Career

Networking Is Only the Beginning

The answer to so many questions today is found in the one word “networking.” This is discussed in product marketing, sales training, recruiting, job searches, and just about anywhere that personal contact is necessary to begin some process. The keyword in this definition is “begin” because there is little value in simply collecting network contacts without doing something with them. As basic as this concept seems to be, we seem to get lost in the… Read More »Networking Is Only the Beginning

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

Gender Equilibrium

Dinner table conversation at my house usually gravitates toward the “How was your day, Dear?” type of discussion. It usually is a real discussion rather than small talk because my wife and I are both professionals working in strange and exotic lands… well not really, but it seems like it at times. She is an engineer working in a field seemingly populated entirely by alpha males and I am an HR professional with typically more… Read More »Gender Equilibrium

Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – A Smorgasbord of Topics

Taking a break from the multi-post themes of recent weeks, these articles were the product of thoughts that just happened to show themselves when the keyboard was silent. Stay tuned… research is afoot for two additional themes in the near future.  Mar 4 - An Old Motivational Story That Still Works - Why do we do what we do? I wonder at people’s motivations when help is volunteered loudly and publically. Even worse, self professed experts change… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – A Smorgasbord of Topics