Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Five Quick Questions
The Recruitment Genome Project is back. Add to this leg of the data by taking this brief survey.
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The Recruitment Genome Project is back. Add to this leg of the data by taking this brief survey.
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Comings & Goings
Quote of the Day
"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration."
- Evan Esar
Comings & Goings
Sydney Johnson-Gorrell joins Oriental Trading Company as Senior Vice President and Chief Talent Officer. Previously Johnson-Gorrell served as Vice President of Human Resources for Brooks Sports, Inc.
KnowledgePay names Jacqueline Kuhn the Vice President of Professional Services.
Rodman & Rodman, P.C. Certified Public Accountants and Business Strategists promotes Jennifer C. Reading to Director of Human Resources. Prior to her promotion, she held the company's position of Director of Administrative Services.
Sidney Haynes has joined Empyrean Benefit Solutions as Vice President of Business Development. Most recently, Sidney was a Business Developer and Account Executive with Hewitt Associates' Client and Market Leadership group.
Pauline Sobelman has been appointed Vice President-Benefits Consultant for insurance broker Lockton in its New York City office.
Dawn Busick, the former director of Missouri Division of Workforce Development, is the new director of the Center for Workforce Development at the Ozarks Technical Community College. She succeeds the retiring Phil Davis.
UST Global (UST), a provider of IT services and solutions for Global 1000 enterprises, appoints Galdino Lelli to the role of ERP Services Practice Head.
FEATHERS
Don Ramer, founder and CEO of Arbita, a provider of recruitment marketing technology has been elected to the Board of Governors for the International Association of Employment Web Sites.
Jennifer Wise, CEO of Wise Consulting Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in HR/Payroll technology, implementation and support, has been selected as a member of the Baltimore SmartCEO Magazine 2009 Smart100.
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"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration."
- Evan Esar
Comings & Goings
Sydney Johnson-Gorrell joins Oriental Trading Company as Senior Vice President and Chief Talent Officer. Previously Johnson-Gorrell served as Vice President of Human Resources for Brooks Sports, Inc.
KnowledgePay names Jacqueline Kuhn the Vice President of Professional Services.
Rodman & Rodman, P.C. Certified Public Accountants and Business Strategists promotes Jennifer C. Reading to Director of Human Resources. Prior to her promotion, she held the company's position of Director of Administrative Services.
Sidney Haynes has joined Empyrean Benefit Solutions as Vice President of Business Development. Most recently, Sidney was a Business Developer and Account Executive with Hewitt Associates' Client and Market Leadership group.
Pauline Sobelman has been appointed Vice President-Benefits Consultant for insurance broker Lockton in its New York City office.
Dawn Busick, the former director of Missouri Division of Workforce Development, is the new director of the Center for Workforce Development at the Ozarks Technical Community College. She succeeds the retiring Phil Davis.
UST Global (UST), a provider of IT services and solutions for Global 1000 enterprises, appoints Galdino Lelli to the role of ERP Services Practice Head.
FEATHERS
Don Ramer, founder and CEO of Arbita, a provider of recruitment marketing technology has been elected to the Board of Governors for the International Association of Employment Web Sites.
Jennifer Wise, CEO of Wise Consulting Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in HR/Payroll technology, implementation and support, has been selected as a member of the Baltimore SmartCEO Magazine 2009 Smart100.
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
PreVisor's 2009 Global Assessment Trends Report
(February 26, 2009) A new, comprehensive assessment trends report has been released. The 2009 Global Assessment Trends Report shines a light on talent measurement practices world-wide and will help you evaluate your own practices related to assessing current and future employees. One hundred and seventy companies from around the world responded to PreVisor's Global Assessment Trends Survey to provide their perspectives on talent measurement practices and trends. Key findings from the report are listed below:
KEY FINDING 1:
Top Talent Management Priorities for 2009
External Recruiting/Hiring and Performance Management are top priorities for companies around the world in 2009. Internal Promotion/Placement is third in priority for U.S. companies, and Career Development is third in priority for companies outside the U.S.
KEY FINDING 2:
Top Talent Management Increases in Priorities from 2008 to 2009
Areas with the highest projected increase in priority for U.S. companies include Competency Modeling, Career Development, and Bench Strength Analysis; whereas outside the U.S., Succession Planning and External Recruiting/Hiring showed the greatest increase.
KEY FINDING 3:
Organizations agree that Assessments are Valuable
Approximately 95% of all companies believe testing is a valuable part of their hiring process. Nearly 50% of clients collect metrics to show the value of such HR investments.
KEY FINDING 4:
Preference for Simulated, Real-world Assessments
Most organizations indicated their preference to use realistic assessments. While many are not using job simulations yet today, more clients plan to expand usage of simulations in the next year as compared to other assessment types.
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Quote of the Day
I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
- Fernando Flores
KEY FINDING 1:
Top Talent Management Priorities for 2009
External Recruiting/Hiring and Performance Management are top priorities for companies around the world in 2009. Internal Promotion/Placement is third in priority for U.S. companies, and Career Development is third in priority for companies outside the U.S.
KEY FINDING 2:
Top Talent Management Increases in Priorities from 2008 to 2009
Areas with the highest projected increase in priority for U.S. companies include Competency Modeling, Career Development, and Bench Strength Analysis; whereas outside the U.S., Succession Planning and External Recruiting/Hiring showed the greatest increase.
KEY FINDING 3:
Organizations agree that Assessments are Valuable
Approximately 95% of all companies believe testing is a valuable part of their hiring process. Nearly 50% of clients collect metrics to show the value of such HR investments.
KEY FINDING 4:
Preference for Simulated, Real-world Assessments
Most organizations indicated their preference to use realistic assessments. While many are not using job simulations yet today, more clients plan to expand usage of simulations in the next year as compared to other assessment types.
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Quote of the Day
I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
- Fernando Flores
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Leadership, Leadership
(February 25, 2009) The Society for Human Resource Management reports Leading Now, Leading the Future: What Senior HR Leaders Need to Know identifies eight leadership skills essential for senior Human Resources leaders. Senior HR professionals employed in global organizations, SHRM found that they need to possess both a global mindset and the ability to be flexible in order to adapt to changing global business needs.
Skills include:
* Knowledge of business, HR and organizational operations,
* Knowledge of business, HR and organizational operations,
* Strategic thinking and critical/analytical thinking,
* Leading change,
* Effective communication,
* Credibility,
* Results orientation and drive for performance,
* Ethical behavior, and
*Persuasiveness and the ability to influence others.
Now, if this list of skills is too daunting, plastic surgery could be an possibility.
According to CC Holland a nose job may lift your Leadership Skills?
The newest trend in cosmetic surgery, apparently, is nipping and tucking for your job. Not content to Botox their brows into submission merely for personal primping, workplace go-getters (men as well as women) are turning to appearance enhancement for career advancement.
No lesser an authority than His Hairness, Donald Trump, argues that attractive people inspire more teamwork. He cites a study that found, in part, that people expect beautiful people to be more cooperative, and thus behave more cooperatively toward them when they are in the same group. A U.S. News and World Report article notes that employees tend to be willing to do more for better-looking bosses and attractive supervisors are perceived as more credible and more persuasive. Author Gordon Patzer ("Looks: Why They Matter More Than You Ever Imagined") suggests that turning to cosmetic enhancements such as eyelid surgery (increasingly popular among men), hair transplants, injectables such as Botox and Restylane and even teeth whitening may delay the decline of your workplace effectiveness as you age. (read more)
CC Holland
CC Holland is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a number of national magazines. Online, she was a columnist for AnchorDesk.com and writes regularly for Law.com and BNET. On the other side of the journalism desk, she's been a managing editor for ZDNet, CNet, and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, where she earned an APTRA Best News Web Site award. About SHRMSociety for Human Resource Management is the worlds largest professional association devoted to HR management. Colleen Gildeacolleen@interbiznet.com Permalink . -. Todays Bugler . -. Send To a Friend . -. Readership Feedback
Four Steps In Strategic Planning
(February 24, 2009) In yesterdays article on planning we referenced the article, Water Cooler Talk Keeps Organizational Culture Real by Blake Ashforth of the W. P. Carey School of Business.
In the article, Ashforth equates workgroups to small tribal units that function as teams. Close teams functions better and get better results. Group members have a sense of belonging, know where assisitance is needed and have better communication even with fluid work locations.
"...an organization's chances of achieving its big goals and initiatives depends on how these goals are perceived through the lens of the tribe, and how that tribe interprets and acts on them." (read the entire article)
And the point here is that as you plan, always keep in mind that the tribe must execute the plan. You need buy in.
OK. You are ready to develop your strategic plan.
Strategic planning requires the examination of four areas:
Wow! Great work.
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In the article, Ashforth equates workgroups to small tribal units that function as teams. Close teams functions better and get better results. Group members have a sense of belonging, know where assisitance is needed and have better communication even with fluid work locations.
"...an organization's chances of achieving its big goals and initiatives depends on how these goals are perceived through the lens of the tribe, and how that tribe interprets and acts on them." (read the entire article)
And the point here is that as you plan, always keep in mind that the tribe must execute the plan. You need buy in.
OK. You are ready to develop your strategic plan.
1. Find a quiet place (alone or with a carefully picked core group). Usually away from the office.
2. Bring beverages and snacks, pads, pens, markers and paper, all reports on the status of the business, laptops and anything you require for uninterrupted, sustained thought.
3. Begin
Strategic planning requires the examination of four areas:
1. Where are you now?
2. What resources do you have to work with currently?
3. Where do you want to be?
4. How do you get from here to there?
1. Where are you now?
Current financials
Sales numbers
Sales costs
Sales cycle
Sales People
Products
Services
Web presence and stats
Morale
Public Persona
2. What resources do you have to work with currently?
Budget
War Chest
Buildings
Offices
Workspaces
Computers
Website
People
Employees
Contractors
Management
Sales
Support
Products
current inventory
3. Where do you want to be?
Take your list from number one.
What should no longer be on the list?
(ie. service that drains the organization of time and talent)
What should be addded?
(ie. new product, additional sales person, more advertising)
Define the new goals and targets (be specific)
4. How do you get from here to there?
Take a really deep breathe at this point.
Now let all the information you have been working with flow and brainstorm.
Write down all thoughts and possibilities.
Once this is completed;
Return to the list of where you want to be (3)
Look at how you will reallocate your resources to accomplish the new goals.
Where can you cut costs?
Where do you need to spend more?
Then, create a timeline (using software, a white board or a big sheet of paper.)
Map out the "How to" of how you get there over the timeline.
Wow! Great work.
Colleen Gildea
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Quotes In Review
Quote of the Day Journal:
Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
- Bill Clinton
Before beginning, plan carefully.
- Marcus T. Cicero
#1 of Top Ten Career Inspirational QuotesTo be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.
- Sister Mary Lauretta (Read All Ten)
"A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No, that's trend!'" - Billie Joe Armstrong
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work"
- Aristotle
"There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
"Work is love made visible."
- Kahlil Gibran
FunCareerLabs offers Inspiration: "The World's Best Quotes in 1-10 Words."
"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
Alfred Hitchcock
"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"You must do the thing you think you can not do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
"There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship."
- Mark Twain
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."
- Jeff Bezos
"Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!" - Peter de Jager
"Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary."
- Joseph O'Connor
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
- Charles Darwin
"A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable."
- Jim Collins
"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."
- Mencius
"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."
- Denis Waitley
"Be bold, daring; go outside of the familiar territory that you know. Realize you can handle it, know that you can, be more, do more and have more confidence."
- Anonymous
"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."
- Martin Buber
"It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation that give you happiness."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The quality of an organization is only as good as the quality of its relationships."
- Sherene McHenry, Ph.D, McHenry International
"Our purpose in life is to find our gift, perfect it and give it back to others"
- Marcia Brixey, MoneyWiseWomen
"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."
- Greg Anderson
Read the Recruiting News at interbiznet.com
Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
- Bill Clinton
Before beginning, plan carefully.
- Marcus T. Cicero
#1 of Top Ten Career Inspirational QuotesTo be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.
- Sister Mary Lauretta (Read All Ten)
"A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No, that's trend!'" - Billie Joe Armstrong
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work"
- Aristotle
"There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
"Work is love made visible."
- Kahlil Gibran
FunCareerLabs offers Inspiration: "The World's Best Quotes in 1-10 Words."
"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
Alfred Hitchcock
"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"You must do the thing you think you can not do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
"There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship."
- Mark Twain
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."
- Jeff Bezos
"Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!" - Peter de Jager
"Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary."
- Joseph O'Connor
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
- Charles Darwin
"A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable."
- Jim Collins
"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."
- Mencius
"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."
- Denis Waitley
"Be bold, daring; go outside of the familiar territory that you know. Realize you can handle it, know that you can, be more, do more and have more confidence."
- Anonymous
"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."
- Martin Buber
"It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation that give you happiness."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The quality of an organization is only as good as the quality of its relationships."
- Sherene McHenry, Ph.D, McHenry International
"Our purpose in life is to find our gift, perfect it and give it back to others"
- Marcia Brixey, MoneyWiseWomen
"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."
- Greg Anderson
Read the Recruiting News at interbiznet.com
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