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  • SHRM 2013 Conference in Chicago, IL

    So the SHRM 2013 Conference is in Chicago. I’ll be there, will you? This will be my third SHRM conference to attend, and my hope is that it will be the best one yet. 60+ other HR and recruiting bloggers will be there. Who else is going? What sessions are you looking forward to? I…

  • New Business Concepts (How to Implement a ROWE)

    If you like keeping up with new business concepts, I have one for you: the ROWE. I’ve talked about the idea of a Results Only Work Environment before, but the latest book by Cali Ressler and Jodi Thompson (Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It) is the handbook for organizations and managers looking to…

  • 9 Free Resources, Tools, and Ideas For Better HR

    I run across a large number of resources in my day to day work as an HR department of one. I thought it would be fun to snag the resources I accessed at least once during a week’s time and post them here for you to see. In the past week, here are the sites…

  • Realistic Job Previews Make Better Hires

    Realistic job previews aren’t new or groundbreaking. (But people still don’t do them.) Why? Honestly, I don’t know. Here’s a little snippet from a recent SHRM article. “One way to avoid quick quits is to be real in describing what it will be like on days 5, 50 and 150 for that candidate during the…

  • HILG (Huntsville Industrial Liaison Group)-Why You Should Care

    Last week I went to a meeting at HILG, AKA the Huntsville Industrial Liaison Group. Why should you care? Well, I think small affinity groups like these can help us to be better at what we do on a daily basis. Today I’ll talk a little about the group and then in general about how…

  • Winners, Results, and Other Updates

    Just a quick post today with various updates. I just got home from my Thursday night men’s meeting and it’s 11:54pm. Whew. Tiring, but totally worth the effort. Survey and winners I notified the survey drawing winners on Thursday 2/28 via email. If you didn’t get an email from me, sorry about that. Better luck…

  • How to Know When Someone is Lying in an Interview

    Lying in an interview? Say it ain’t so! I wanted to share a short back-and-forth I had with a friend about how to know when someone is lying in an interview. I’ve shortened where I could to get to the point, but the lying discussion doesn’t happen until the end. I think the discussion is…

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