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  • HRM Conference: Social Media with Kris Dunn and Dawn Hrdlica

    Yes. I know how to use social media. But I want to be in the middle of a group of HR professionals who battle in the trenches every day and hear what they want to know about the social stuff. While I love doing what I do, I understand that there\’s a whole other world…

  • What’s so scary about HR? (Video)

    What’s the scariest thing about human resources? Well, if you want to get the details on that, then you need to hit up the Halogen software site. They\’ve collected horror stories from HR pros and the videos are available for your viewing pleasure. My video (about a voodoo curse!) is found below, and if you…

  • How to run a one person HR department (HRM Conference)

    The first concurrent session I attended on day one of the 2010 Tuscaloosa HRM Conference was Team of One: HR Professionals Who Have to Do It All. A big plus (in my book) for this session was that it was a panel discussion and very informal. This sort of content is better covered by a…

  • Free training eBook

    It seems like 2010 is the year of free eBooks, but it’s really a lot of fun to come together with some other brilliant minds and put together a resource like the What We Teach and How We Learn eBook. Big thanks to Benjamin McCall of ReThinkHR for pulling this together! The neat part about…

  • Attend RecruitFest free!

    Okay, really short post today. I just saw that the RecruitFest videos are now live on their website and I highly encourage you to go check them out. RecruitFest is a HR/recruiting event that happened recently in Massachusetts. Each session was captured and archived in video, and you can see each of those sessions for…

  • #HRevolution 2011 in Atlanta (April 29-30)

    You may have heard murmurings about HRevolution 2011. Well… After reviewing and discussing the survey results from last year, we have decided to host it in Atlanta on April 29-30. What you can do for now Spread the word. We’re going to have a limited number of tickets (as we did for HRevolution 2010) to…

  • Human Resources Management Conference-I’m going!

    I was looking through some old emails the other day, and I saw someone mention the Human Resources Management Conference. I thought it sounded interesting, so I clicked through expecting to see a small, local event that might be semi-interesting to attend. Then my jaw dropped. This event is loaded with amazing speakers, great content,…

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