Rethinking how people and businesses interact
From the monthly archives:
The TV show “The Office” has a website where you can submit your HR nightmares. I’ve spent the entire night reading through this and watching”The Office.” I can’t believe some of the examples they’ve given. Some of them are awful. Oh, how painful!
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Last week, I wrote about employers passing on benefits cost to at-risk employees (specifically smokers but could be broadened). I received a lot of great comments from both this blog and recruitingbloggers.com. Examples include: Ann says: Lung cancer for a smoker ok — will be blame the lung cancer from second hand smoke for an [...]
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Here is part two of my interview with Tom Schmidt of Resumefit. You can see part one here. Click here to download a sample resume using this technology. Your HR Guy: Some HR people I know are skeptical of any type of psychological battery. How is yours different or how do you ensure that the [...]
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After my video resume post, I received an e-mail from Tom Schmidt at Resumefit about his product. I went to the website and was really intrigued by the product and where the possibilities could lead. I asked if I could interview him for this blog and I am breaking it into two posts (so I [...]
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If there is one document in the hiring process I hate to hear about, it is the non-compete agreement. If there is any single document that can kill a new person’s first day excitement, it is the non-compete agreement. If there is any single document that can rock the foundation of a loyal employee’s trust [...]
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A recent trend in benefits is to pass some of the increasing costs of medical insurance to at risk employees. One of the easiest assailed groups are smokers. Not only are they easily identified but they are not faultless in their affliction (like some cases of obesity or cancer with genetic predispositions). The second reason [...]
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I know it is crazy for me to suggest that video resumes won’t work. I am sure that’s what they said about locomotive, automobile and putting a man on the moon. And I know I should get my tinfoil hat on to suggest that video resumes might not be the no-brainer solution for people who [...]
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A person asked me over email about attendance issues and all sorts of mean, nasty things came to my mind when it was mentioned. Oh how I loathe ye great attendance policy. My post on ROWE is the only time I’ve mentioned my despise for workplace attendance policies. There are a lot of different folds [...]
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The Employment Blawg has a great post about employing older workers. I personally enjoy employing older workers. I am relatively young in comparison to the rest of the workforce. All of the executives I have recruited are older than me so I guess the difference between a guy who is 38 and 58 is pretty [...]
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I know that I have quite a few people that read me on feed readers but you should come check out the new site layout. I am going to try and customize it from where it is currently. That is the nice thing about working with WordPress. I also added a couple more links and [...]
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