Monthly Archives: April 2011
Interviewing and getting better at the know of fit
Ah, the job interview. The all-important transaction between job candidate and potential employer. You’ve screened out and assessed in the most qualified top tier of applicants. Maybe out of 10 total, or maybe out of 10,000. Whatever the math, you’re both ready to sit and talk for the first time. You invite the job applicant &hellip Continue reading
HR Thought Police? Really?
Unfortunately I did it. More than once. A long, long time ago. Sending “inappropriate” emails that is. No litigation or publicity, and no lives were threatened or damaged, just bad decision making on my part and lessons learned. What, you ask, were those inappropriate emails? Are you kidding me? Like I said, it was a &hellip Continue reading
Maybe HR should be called Hippocampus Resources
The latest neuroscience research continues to transform what we know about human behavior. Queue one of my favorite online shows — Radiolab — and one of the episodes titled Lost & Found. The first segment is about a woman with a newly discovered cognitive disorder called Developmental Topographical Disorientation, affecting the hippocampus of the brain and &hellip Continue reading
HR, innovation and the waiting culture
It’s like Waiting for Godot. It was one of my favorite reads in college – an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for someone named Godot to arrive. Of course, Godot never arrives, and each time they make the decision to leave, they don’t. &hellip Continue reading
The new corporate lattice isn’t your father’s ladder
Imagine a lattice. Picture the myriad of interconnected patterns in that lattice. Careful now, don’t pass out. Now imagine a simple ladder. We climb up, we climb down. The way career development happens these days isn’t the up and down ladder – it’s more the fluid and flexible combinations of opportunities to develop. Those of &hellip Continue reading
It’s what happens after the test that’s important
You’re just so strapped for time. Especially if you’re the sole HR director or even if you have a small team to assist you. You’ve got payroll to process, performance reviews to conduct, remind management that they’ve got performance reviews to conduct, maybe dealing with a toxic employee or two, open enrollment – the list &hellip Continue reading
HR empowered in a single, integrated solution
Now that we’ve launched our new website and ActionHRM is ready for action in the real world and your backyard, it’s time to get a little more promotional. Don’t hold it against us – we really believe we’ve got the system that will empower HR and your business. Most HR departments are plagued with inefficiencies &hellip Continue reading
Introducing ActionHRM
The time has come to let you all know who we are. Although it hasn’t been a major secret, we’ve just wanted to get our software “ducks in a row” before we launched our new website and brand. ActionHRM is our new name, originally known as MyStaff. We were founded in Australia and have been &hellip Continue reading
