CareerBuilder had a new survey out today, and on first glance, it will make you cringe. Here’s the headline: “More Than Half of Unemployed Workers With Job … Read more
The Annual United Way Campaign: So Why Again is HR Stuck With This?
By Laurie Ruettimann The fourth quarter is an exhausting time of year for most Human Resources professionals. Companies finalize their budgets. Open … Read more
How Are Your Minor Leagues Doing?
This summer, my friends and I went to NBA Summer League. What the National Basketball Association does is bring in the top rookies in this year’s NBA … Read more
Talent Management Vendor Softscape Acquired by SumTotal
Family-owned talent management vendor Softscape has been acquired by SumTotal Systems, a talent development and e-learning provider. The announcement was … Read more
Survey: Only 11% of Companies Still Giving Cost of Living Increases
This won’t be a surprise to most of you given all the bad stuff that happened during the recession and ongoing economic downturn, but it still bears … Read more
How to Make Better Hires: Do You Go for Creative Thinking, or Job Skills?
OK, so I am stealing a story I read about 15 years ago in an airline magazine (If anyone out there recognizes it and can help me attribute this, please let … Read more
Just What is Diversity, Anyway?
By Michelle T. Johnson Not to get all Bill Clinton, but I feel the pain of anyone who thinks diversity is a synonym for political correctness. Diversity … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Big Brothering Freelancers, the Terrors of Testosterone, Torching an Employer
Have you noticed a big change this week? Now that summer and Labor Day is behind us, people seem really serious about getting back to serious work. That’s … Read more
Six Things You Should Consider When Making A Counter-Offer
Earlier this month, we heard about some of the extraordinary counter-offers that Google was making to its departing employees (specifically engineers). In … Read more
Can You Use a Mob Statute on a Worker Who Takes Confidential Info?
By Reyburn W. Lominack III So the former employee who walked out the door with your company’s “secret recipe” is not in the mob. Does that mean the … Read more