Good morning HR people! I have been asked to guest blog over at the Sparkah.com blog. This week’s post was about tricks and tips on how to properly close your interview process without being pushy but maintain your interview team’s engagement long after the interview process is over. Take a quick minute to check it […]
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Morning fellow HR friends! I was invited to guest blog over at Sparkah on the topic of recruitment and resume writing. This was a great opportunity to share my favorite tips with an entirely new audience. Check out what I wrote for them below… As unemployment rates continue to drop every month more and more professionals […]
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I love the recruitment process. I love being on the side of the recruiter and the side of the potential employee being interviewed. What I don’t love are those trite, repetitive questions that recruiters and interviewees pose during the initial interview process. If you are someone who is actively job seeking, this article by the […]
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Talent acquisition can be a very strenuous, time-consuming, frustrating yet rewarding part of Human Resources. When I think about how much time goes into engaging, speaking with, job offering and finally on-boarding new talent, I’m exhausted. The reward typically outweighs the exertion, because at the end of the day, I can take pride in recruiting […]
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Good morning and Happy Thursday! http://careerbright.com/career-self-help/adding-qr-code-to-your-resume?goback=%2Egmp_1942226%2Egde_1942226_member_66859953 It’s been a minute since the last time I posted! Things have been crazy and busy and exciting at my (still kind of new) gig and I am loving and soaking up every minute of it. I have been interviewing so many potential new employees and talking about my […]
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http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/3-interview-questions-that-reveal-everything.html Nice little article about 3 crucial interview questions every recruiter/hiring manager should ask. I really appreciate the sequence in which the questions are asked as I tend to do the same thing when interviewing. I may not have interviewed thousands of people in my career, but I’m definitely in the “high hundreds” club. I […]
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A Facebook Jobs Board Would Be Big, But Obstacles Remain. This article left me inspired and motivated to start cracking away at my company’s Facebook page. Thanks Work4Labs for being so user-friendly. You can check out my handy-work at http://app.work4labs.com/job/brightscope/front-end-developer/1937206/38258991934?st=_5fqX6P6pmWalAf32SRRznpeF-g&ref=perma. This is the first of many Facebook job posts. Now all I have to do is […]
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This week I rolled out the communication of my organization’s first Employee Recognition Program. While I am no stranger to participating in an Employee Recognition Program, this was the first time that I had to create one from scratch! After a week of researching, reading on how best to communicate the benefits of the program, how […]
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http://compensation.blr.com/guidance/Computer-Professionals-and-Overtime/ Nice little article on classifying exempt versus non-exempt employees. The classification of computer professionals has long plagued many an HR professional. Are all your computer pro’s exempt? Are they salaried non-exempt? How do you account for any extra hours they may incur from working on long projects versus just a typical work week? Do […]
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Alexandria Brown http://www.ere.net/webinars/succession-planning.asp In the ere.net hosted webinar “Succession Planning: Why It’s Important as the Economy Recovers,” hosts Tony Kubica and Sara LaForest discuss the importance of implementing a strong succession planning process in your organization during the economic recovery. Kubica and LaForest identify that while the economy is recovering, we are seeing an increase […]
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