Congratulations! You’re going to an industry conference, event, trade show or continuing education seminar — which means that your company is investing in your professional development and growth. But how do you justify your time away to leadership — and to yourself — without burning out or feeling somehow short-changed?
Extinction Event: Why HR Is Certifiably Insane
Posted on July 9, 2014 Leave a Comment
Sure, the Society of Human Resources Management’s annual conference in Orlando was over a couple weeks ago, but in the spirit of late adoption that infused the conference, figured that a stale post was, for the target audience, right on time. It was my fifth straight SHRM conference, and what really struck me this year wasn’t what had changed with HR, but rather, the fact that nothing has really changed over the last 5 years. Not at SHRM, at least.
Pour One Out For These Dead Recruiting Trends, Homies.
Posted on July 8, 2014 Leave a Comment
Recruiting and HR pundits sure seem to like writing obituaries. Hell, there’s an entire cannon of posts, white papers and corporate copy on the death of any number of human capital-related themes. Reading through this generic genre, everything from job boards to resumes (false) to LinkedIn (true) are either dead or on life support. Most of these are premature in their declarations of imminent mortality, and written to sell consulting services or align with whatever keyword happens to be trending or whatever buzzword is performing well on Google.
The funny thing is, some of the hottest topics and trends in recruiting are, in fact, alive only by virtue of these same influencers, product and content marketers and “influencers” whose chief industry influence comes from successfully gaming Klout. Good news: some of their most omnipresent “trends” are about to become obsolete.
Original Content
Posted on July 3, 2014 Leave a Comment
This is the douchiest possible post, but a bunch of people have been asking me to write about writing, which makes me this sleazebag (not actor Rip Torn, whose name and jawline I continue to envy):
I’m Not In HR. Trust Me.
Posted on July 1, 2014 3 Comments
I haven’t written much recently, because the fact of the matter is I suck at writing on the road. When you train as a writer formally (which is to say, you pay to learn stuff you don’t need to know) and have silence and solipsism built into your process, it’s hard to find a corner and polish off some specious post on what some “thought leader” happens to be thinking. I’ve likely contributed as many conference wrap-up posts as anyone in the history of this annoying yet ubiquitous genre – and they’re designed to focus on the what and who of a conference, the small stuff like sessions or speakers, but never look beyond the preprogrammed scope of the conference agenda.
Snark Attack 