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  • #HRevolution News: Don’t miss out!

    HRevolution seems like it’s so far off. It’s been four months since the last event, and we’re still working on what we want it to look like in 2011. One thing we’re sure of? It will be better than ever. Trish has been gathering feedback on what people want to see, and if you haven’t…

  • 70% of employers perform social search on candidates

    Despite the scary “end of the world” talk out there from legal types about how using social media will land your company in a lawsuit, 70% of employers are still searching for candidate information on social networking sites, and approximately one-third search every single time. I’ve talked before about how social media use varies between…

  • Why HR Matters to Me

    In today’s video, I talk about why I started working in HR and how my growth from the beginning is very different from the mainstream. Let’s hope that’s a good thing, right? :-) Enjoy! (Subscribers may have to click through to view!)

  • What I’m doing and not doing today

    In the past few weeks I’ve written in spurts. Sometimes I’ll get a lot of posts out and sometimes it’s more of a trickle. Sometimes I get guest posts out to help other people keep up their frequency even though mine sometimes is lower than I’d like. Well, I had intended to write a post…

  • An apology and a few shout outs

    Technical difficulties Hey, everyone! If you’ve dropped by the site (or checked your email/RSS subscriptions) in the past 24 hours, you might have seen some wacky stuff. My original website was set up on WordPress.com. When I moved to upstartHR.com, I had to redirect the old website. Yesterday that redirection failed for a little while,…

  • You told me what to write

    Since my beautiful girls were born, I have been sleep deprived beyond my wildest imaginings. :-) Paradoxically, I’ve had my brain crushed with different ideas to write on. The only issue is that some of them are probably pretty crappy, and my filter isn’t up to snuff at this point. So I crowdsourced my thinking…

  • Hiring manager secrets to getting a job…

    It seems like just yesterday that I reached out to Alison Green, author of the amazing Ask a Manager career advice blog, to see if she would be interested in writing an eBook to help job seekers. Today, that dream is a reality! What it touches on how to stop sabotaging your job search how…

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