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Is Human Resources Fatally Flawed?

by Lance Haun on September 1, 2009

Don’t think about it. Just answer me quickly: Is HR fatally flawed?
How many of you answered yes? When I first started writing this in April, I said yes too. Yes, this has been on my mind since April, sitting in my draft folder waiting for me to answer the question. And I can tell you, [...]

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Annoyed at Job Candidates? Look in the Mirror

by Lance Haun on August 6, 2009

One of the ways my blog has shifted over the last 18 months is that it has become less about what job candidates and employees are doing wrong and more about what HR and management are doing wrong. It has been one of those funny evolutions of a blog that you never see coming when [...]

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Exit Interviews Are Band Aids On Broken Legs

by Lance Haun on May 26, 2009

So let’s say you’re working for a company with turnover problems (i.e. losing your best people to competitors) and management comes to Human Resources to figure out why people are leaving. What far too many HR people will suggest is that the organization should use an exit interview to get the information and report on [...]

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This HR Guy Is Over Your Spelling Mistakes

by Lance Haun on April 28, 2009

It is one of the first thing people say about composing your resume: make sure you don’t have any spelling mistakes. Or certainly, a spelling mistake means certain doom even if the rest of your resume looks great. And really, not a day goes by when I don’t see a comment on twitter about how [...]

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What Is Your Greatest Weakness?

by Lance Haun on April 20, 2009

Have you ever received that question in an interview? First, let me apologize. Most of us in HR who ask this question don’t even know what we’re asking, why we’re asking or what we’re supposed to get out of this question. Furthermore, candidates are usually so poorly prepared for this question that it usually defeats [...]

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Raging Against SHRM Isn't Solving HR's Problems

by Lance Haun on March 30, 2009

One of the things I’ve noticed since I started blogging is that a lot of bloggers like banging on SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management for the uninitiated or uninterested). When you’re talking about an organization that represents more HR people than any other organization, they are going to be fair game. And when SHRM [...]

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Keep it Simple (Stupid)

by Lance Haun on October 2, 2006

I won’t go over the concept of simplifying because it is covered pretty adequately here.
What I will say is that HR people often ignore this principle because they are exempt! I mean, come on! They have so many rules to follow and theories to keep track of, how could they simplify things any further?
We all [...]

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