Category: General
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5 Things You’ll Never Hear an HR Department of One Say…
For those of you not in the know, an HR department of one is just what it sounds like: an HR department where one person covers all the bases from an HR, talent, and recruiting perspective. I have a special place in my heart for the HR department of one, because that’s where I came…
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WOH 63: 5 Lessons from the Best Midsize Employer in the US
What does it take to be a best place to work? Or, perhaps a Best Place to Work, in official terms? In this episode, Ben recaps some of the key ideas and pointers shared by Juanita Philips, VP of Employee Experience at Intuitive Research in Huntsville, AL. Intuitive has won awards as the best midsize…
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13+ HR Case Studies: Recruiting, Learning, Analytics, and More
Reposting a piece from the blog over at Lighthouse Research because I know not all of you subscribe over there! As someone who has worked in the HR profession, I know well the full value of stories, examples, and case studies. At the end of the day, practitioners like us wanted to know that we…
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62: How to Repond to Negative Glassdoor Reviews with Chad Roudebush
It’s a candidate’s market out there. Ghosting, highly competitive hiring practices… It’s all over, and it seems like no company is shielded from the brunt of this disruption. In today’s conversation, Ben interviews Chad Roudebush, a recruitment marketer with Jobvite, to talk about how he approaches recruiting communications in a way that creates value for…
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Yes, I Really Wanted to be in HR as a Child (and Why Now is THE Time for HR)
I sometimes forget that some of you have been reading the blog for a long time (maybe the entire 10+ years it’s been going!) while others have just found it. It’s easy to run across something I’ve written recently and think that I have it all together and always have, but that’s certainly not the…
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50 Conversations in 50 Days: 10 Things I Know about Today’s HR Professionals
Wow. Really. I have spent the last 50 or so days speaking with dozens of HR pros (more than 50 now, but the number worked for the title so I ran with it!) and the takeaways I’ve had are pretty incredible. The gist of it: one of the research projects me and my team have…
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61: Why You Shouldn’t Pick Low-Hanging Fruit as a New Leader
Should employers be onboarding their leadership talent the same way they bring on an hourly worker or an individual contributor? No, yet so many firms have a single approach to onboarding: push everyone down the “orientation assembly line” and hope that they are ready for the job when they come out the other end. In…