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  • Rules for New HR Professionals

    If you\’re a fan of Fistful of Talent (I made it into the top 1 zillion blogs over there at some point or another. Boo-ya!), then you may have seen the recent FOTV video where Kris Dunn, AKA the HR Capitalist, gave his rules for new HR professionals to succeed. While he had to be…

  • The Social Web and You

    What is social media? How is it different from social networking? Why are you asking all these questions? Learn more in the post “The Social Web and You.”

  • Posts, Problems, and Probabilities

    In the past week or two, posting has been sporadic. There are several reasons for that (as you’ll see below). I’ve been reading some amazing posts from my blogger friends, trying to meet a fast-approaching deadline, and planning the future of this site. I hope you read stick around, because you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.…

  • Just Realized…

    I never publicly named the winners of the Smile Week Contest! Congrats to Alicia, Krista, Trish, and April. You all got in under the buzzer, and each of you made me smile. I am getting your prizes out to each of you later this week. Thanks for playing! gsfdqjc3z8

  • SHRM\’s HR Education Efforts

    In recent posts, I\’ve discussed the gaps in the HR curriculum and how HR education is not providing adequate training for those preparing for a career in human resources. I recently had the chance (thanks to China Gorman, COO of SHRM) to talk with Nancy Woolever. Nancy is the Manager of Academic Initiatives for the…

  • Smile Week Contest

    The contest is closed! Thanks to the participants. Alicia, Krista, Trish, and April all got in before the deadline and won a prize. Congratulations, ladies! In an earlier post, I mentioned that Ashley Andrus sent me a book in honor of this “Smile Week” idea. After some Google research, I couldn’t find much about this…

  • Reading Survey: Self-Experimentation

    From AskOxford.com: The Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries… This suggests that there are, at the very least, a quarter of a million distinct English words. I used to…

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