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Candidate Courtesy. Not Candidate Experience.

If you’ve started to hear “The Candidate Experience” as much as you used to hear “seat at the table,” you’re probably like me and starting to grow just a bit weary of it. It’s admirable to want to do right by our candidates. Why wouldn’t we want to treat them just as well as we…

HR Should Introduce the Social Possibilities

Here’s a piece I wrote for Dice’s Employee Resource Center during the most recent HR Tech conference. Enjoy.. Marcia Conner is an internationally recognized adviser to the world’s largest organizations reinventing themselves and their workforce for the future. She closed down HR Executive’s 15th Annual HR Technology Conference in Chicago this year to a packed house of technologists, HR…

75 Percent of Your Employees Are Looking

The painful two years of the Great Recession were followed by two more years of sluggish economic recovery. Finally, and with a slight sigh of relief, The U.S. Department of Labor shares that the unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in four years. But this is what the DOL doesn’t know…or share: 75…

Jack Donaghy, Business Sage

I grew up in a house without a TV. Well, we had one until my Mother was so fed up with the time we tried to spend in front of it that she picked it up and threw it out the second story window. And despite the entertainment industry’s attempt to pepper us with more…

People First. Numbers a Close Second.

I blogged for Dice this week at HR Executive’s HR Technology Conference from Chicago. A lot of the conference about big data this year.  Big data isn’t about data. We’re over that now. It’s about how the heck you do something with it. It’s about bringing data to life – making it jump from the page…

A Stroll through HR Tech

For those of you who can’t join us in Chicago this week for HR Executive’s 15th Annual HR Technology Conference, I walked the expo hall with my video camera in hand – as I am wont to do – so you could kind of get a feel for what it’s like. Lots of vendors, lots…

It Ain’t an HR Strategy Without Technology

When you put together HR strategy for 2013 and beyond, will it include a section devoted specifically to technology? Does it contemplate (1) technology that you have today and want to upgrade (2) technology that you don’t have today but really need, and (3) technology that very few are using today but you want to…