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Blog Post: I Cannot Tell a Lie! ...And I'm Not a Politician, So It's Not Just a Catchy Phrase.: I'm giving you all fair warning and letting you know that this is a touchy-feely kind of blog. If you are looking for some sort of information on how to become a better recruiter, you will not find…; Added by See_Jane_Recruit at 11:11am on April 22, 2009

Topic: By Process of Elimination: g on to certain items. I think I am trying to save memories. Sounds silly, I know, because if it is a memory, if it is truly a memory, than you really don't need to save anything physical - it will all be here (right index finger taps right temple) or right here (right hand covers heart.) But here's the thing: the older I get, I think there is actually less space here (right index finger taps right temple.) So, recognizing this phenomenon early on, I started saving every wonderful thing my children have ever done (it's a lot of stuff - because, well, everything they do is wonderful) and every photograph, every program and ticket stub from every show I have seen, every essay or poem I have ever written, every script and Directors' notes from every show I have ever been involved with, and every business magazine (my faves: Business 2.0-no longer published, FastCompany, Entrpreneur, and Inc.) These items were all fairly organized, I knew where to find them, each item. I enjoyed having these things to spark memories. But, life changes, venues change and sometimes, you have to download stuff to the round file. This has been a constant activity for the last several months. In anticipation of my household move, I started offloading and outsourcing memories. I was also able to go paperless in many areas, this has helped. My new home has less storage space and I have declared myself to be storage-unit free, so by process of elimination, "memories" have been reassigned or let go. It has been incredibly freeing, but not without levels of stress. This has been done with my place of employment, as well. I have learned appropriation. Listen...(clue), I am not saying I am cured. I don't think that is possible, but I can do this one day at a time - and no, it is not easy. Old habits are hard to break. I finally, stopped taking notes all day, during every conversation, face-to-face or voice-to-voice. Now, I listen. Listening is not an easily attained skill, as a matter of fact, there are many who believe themselves to be accomplished listeners. And yet, they are not, most are usually concentrating on what they are going to say next, instead of what is being said before them. I am still trying to increase my own level of skill at listening. I think it must be a life-long process and a way of letting go of self while really embracing what is here and now. And if you really listen, really, then the deciphering of personal beliefs and honing of personal practices might even be attainable. The honing - the actually shedding of the unneeded. If it weren't so hard, it would be so easy. by rayannethorn…; Added by Rayanne at 1:55am on September 27, 2010

Blog Post: Attracting Tech Talent Through Company Culture Inspired Perks: A recent Dice survey reveals …; Added by Sean Pomeroy at 3:09pm on March 14, 2014

Blog Post: High Growth, High Tech, All We Want Is High Touch...: The world is beckoning, "Come Tweet With Me!" MySpace, FaceBook, LinkedIn, Twitter have become household names in a span of a few years. The rate in which change happens used to be measured in…; Added by Lisa Kaye at 12:39pm on May 26, 2009

Topic: A Story That Needs to be Told - Part I: action with for the past two years who has suffered at the hands of one of these lunatics unlike i have ever seen in my 30 years as a recruiter. At age 19 she started as a sales and customer service rep for a household word telecommunications company. She was the leading sales rep within a short time earning over 100K a year for several years. She was offered a promotion several times to a manager level position and turned it down as it would mean that she would take a significant cut in pay. Finally realizing that if she did not accept the promotion she would forever be at the current level she made the decision to try and advance her career and make the move. At the time she accepted the promotion the Sr. Manager who had promoted her accepted another position with the company and a new Sr. Manager who had been a first level manager for 20 years was promoted into his position. The new Sr. Manager let it be known that she did not think this young woman should have been promoted. (You see the storm clouds on the horizon). My candidate's promotion was finally approved. Within 7 months early 2008, the new Sr. Manager called her in and told her that she was helping male employees more than she was helping female employees and had been talking to them about non business related matters. She was written up for a violation of the code of business conduct. The situation was that she had been assigned to a new training class of sales reps. Several of the new trainees were guys that she had gone to high school with who were planning their first high school reunion and as they knew her they were more comfortable going to her for help than some of the other trainees. Ok, she acknowledged that yes she probably had talked with them about non business matters , the reunion, and yes she probably had helped them more than other trainees as they felt comfortable coming to her because she knew them before they started. Reasonable concern and she would correct it, which she did. What followed in the next two years was a series of the most bizarre manager - direct report situations on the planet. She was called in and told that it had been reported that she had come into the office trying to buy marijuana from some of the reps while she was on vacation. The week she was supposed to have done this insanity she had been out of the city at a company training seminar for two days of the week, had taken vacation time and stayed in the other city for the remaining three days. The office has a security situation requiring a key card. She suggested to her boss that she check the security records to determine if her key card had been used and offered to provide hotel receipts to prove she not even in the city and take a drug test to prove that she had not and did not smoke dope. Her boss told her that would not be necessary, she believed her. Her boss then made a career for the next two weeks of asking almost all of the 170 employees in the center if they had ever seen her outside of work smoke marijuana. When asked why she was talking to everyone in the office creating the question as to my candidate smoking dope her boss informed her that it was her job to investigate every complaint no matter how absurd. When asked why the boss had indicated that a drug test was not necessary when that would have proved that the girl had not used any drug and the report had been that she came into the office to try and buy drugs which was easily negated by checking the key card access. The boss responded that even though that complaint could be proven wrong it was her job to determine if the girl did smoke dope as maybe a drug test could be manipulated. As no one had ever seen this young woman smoke dope that one seemed to go by the boards and nothing more was said to my candidate and it had been proven a false report. Or so my candidate thought. Stay tuned for part II this is long an bizarre story that will convince anyone that there are insane, vindictive, crazy people in management positions who should be exterminated. …; Added by Sandra McCartt at 5:16pm on June 10, 2011

Blog Post: Care About Your Employees and Your Company Will Soar

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Blog Post: OPINION: Why Cyber Security should be taught in our schools: As opposed to past generations, schoolchildren today have been brought up around technology and the use of computers for as long as they can remember.…; Added by Jake Holyoak at 3:39am on December 3, 2019

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Blog Post: 5 Emerging HR Trends Shaping Future of Work Post-Covid-19 Pandemic

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The labor market in general and the HR market, in particular, have been facing the biggest challenges ever…

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Blog Post: I'm willing to believe that social recruiting works, but the compelling evidence just isn't out there: I’ve had a few run ins, albeit friendly exchanges of banter, of late with a few pro social recruiting types. Obviously it’s difficult to explain ones self fully in 140 characters or less so I…; Added by Alasdair Murray at 2:40pm on February 15, 2012