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Temporary Insanity.
Posted on October 30, 2015 9 Comments

“Don’t worry. You’ll get the hang of it.” With those famous last words, she pivoted on a worn heel and walked back around the corner to the fluorescent drenched cube farm set aside for the office and administrative staff , leaving me alone at the oversized front desk. The glass divider separating this desk from […]
Social Recruiting: Behind the Buzzwords at #HRTechConf
Posted on October 6, 2014 1 Comment

I was kind of surprised when my friends over at SHRM reached out to me with a few questions about social recruiting; after all, SHRM is decidedly not a recruiting-focused organization, and that same membership that seems to actively work to block their employees social media access also is, in my experience, anti-social (at least […]
HR Trendspotting: A Look Ahead at 2014
Posted on December 9, 2013 2 Comments

It’s the holidays, which means it’s that special time when B2B marketers start pushing lazy, self-congratulatory content (“our favorite posts of the year!”) and, even more noxious, the prediction post. You know, the kind where bloggers talk about what’s going to happen next year. Which is weird, because you’d think if bloggers could predict the […]
The Best of the #HRTech Backchannel
Posted on September 28, 2012 Leave a Comment
Walking onto a trade show floor is like walking into a Moroccan bazaar, a myriad of vendors promoting every ware imaginable, from the esoteric to the mundane, to passersby running the gamut from deep-pocketed pashas (your Fortune 500 buyer) to penny-begging thieves (think: start-up sales guys).