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Join the Spooktacular Halloween Bash at Work!
Posted on October 31, 2025 1 Comment
I’ve been in HR for 17 years, and I can tell you, no other holiday brings people together quite like Halloween.
There’s something about seeing your manager dressed as a giant banana that melts hierarchies. It’s the kind of authentic, organic bonding moment that no leadership development program could replicate.
Another #SHRM15 Post No One Really Needs.
Posted on June 26, 2015 13 Comments
I was recently called out on one of those “top secret” Facebook groups everybody’s in, the kind populated with the same kind of people who think that promoting “Exclusive VIP Access” to anyone who clicks a link, about why, exactly, SHRM keeps asking me back year after year. Her insinuation was that all I do […]
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 […]
Peculiar, MO: A Recruiting Roadtrip
Posted on August 8, 2014 4 Comments
They say you can’t go home again, and that’s only a little true. Truth is, I’m not even sure where home is, anymore, other than maybe that familiar, recurring HR conference circuit road I’ve already done a half dozen laps on. I’ve got a hell of a name badge collection, by the way, and likely […]
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 […]
Snark Attack 