From the monthly archives:

November 2006

Workers Compensation is Crap

by Lance Haun on November 29, 2006

As a side story, I was playing a video game version of Jeopardy and a question (answer?) came up where the correct answer (question?) was “Workers Compensation.” The only problem is, this game was created in 1987 and the correct answer of course was “Workman’s Compensation.” This was 1987 after all! When men worked (or [...]

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Bringing them in so you can kick them out

by Lance Haun on November 28, 2006

As part of the problem that I see in separating HR from recruiting, one of the major ones that I really didn’t touch on as much as I would have liked is the management of the employee lifecycle at the company. Setting proper expectations on the front end of an interview and sending that consistent [...]

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How do you keep to your guiding principles?

by Lance Haun on November 20, 2006

I don’t know about some of you but whenever I started getting into HR, I did so with a lot of lofty goals and guiding principles in mind.  Making genuine contacts, helping people get into the right career (whether it was with me or someone else) and continually educating and improving myself.  I think we [...]

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Balance between HR and Recruiting

by Lance Haun on November 14, 2006

There is a fine line to be drawn between HR and recruiting and quite a bit has been discussed regarding these two. Some have said they should be separated and I think I can understand that. Recruiting can often be part of the brand experience of a company, it can be marketing and it can [...]

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What do you ask your interviewer?

by Lance Haun on November 2, 2006

So you’re at your job interview and it is winding down. It has been a great interview so far and the interviewer has answered all of your questions. Here is the problem: the interviewer has answered all of your questions! Now what? Careerbuilder has some great things to ask right here and I want to [...]

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