Employment reference checking and background screening should win recognition as the weakest of all corporate HR processes. A validity meta-analysis study … Read more
The Best Firms to Build a Career in Talent Management
There are many lists that highlight great places to work. Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” and BusinessWeek’s “Best Places to … Read more
What You Wish You Could Tell Candidates
I’m always hearing recruiters say they want to be more helpful to candidates. I wonder. I wrote the following with the idea that it might help some express … Read more
Home-grown Tests: Living Dangerously
I’ve written before about frustrated managers designing their own hiring tests. The story goes like this: one or more line managers become so dissatisfied … Read more
Rogue Sourcing
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. — Galileo Galilei The hand came up about halfway down the … Read more
Notes from HR Tech: Lots to see and do, but a bit Thin in the Pre-employment Assessment Department
After missing last year, I was happy to be able to spend a good part of last week attending this year’s HR Technology conference. As usual between the … Read more
HR Technology Today: Just Another Love Song
I returned from the HR Technology expo — a place to look at what’s new, what’s improved, what’s interesting. Well, that’s what it used to be. Now … Read more
Work/Life Balance and Labor Day
Labor Day in the U.S. is almost here. Many other countries also celebrate a labor day, which has always seemed an unusual event to me. We didn’t celebrate … Read more
The Hard Facts in International Recruiting
My younger brother Barak got married August 12, 2010. When we were growing up, the thing I knew for sure was that I hated him. It was the “hard … Read more
Learn From HP’s Errors — a Checklist for Designing an Effective Succession Plan
Most organizations do a weak job at succession planning, but as recent events highlight, Hewlett-Packard deserves some sort of award for completely blowing … Read more