How Social Media Has Transformed Talent Acquisition
A SHRM Discussion With Will Staney
Recruiting has evolved.
What used to be a world consumed by job boards, applications, automation and job hunters is now a place of social recruiting – one where referrals, analytics and integrated recruiting rule. Candidate expectations have shifted drastically, too. Today, 47% of workers were born after 1980. And …
What Secret Weapon is Hanging in the Air?
Scientific American cites some shocking news about time. The more quickly you have to respond to a question or report results, the more likely you are to lie. Or, consider the reverse. The more time you take, the less likely you are to lie.
Lying is in the air. Literally, the fewer breaths you take, …
Personal Branding Weekly – Stop Guarding Your Resources
I recently wrote about the five things you need to stop doing now to create great connections in 2015.
Stop guarding your resources is one of them.
In a minute, you can Google almost anything that you want to know more about so the days of keeping resources or a piece of information “top secret” …
Clothes and Your Personal Branding
As they say, clothes don’t make the man but they do make a difference. Of course, there is the argument that clothes do make the man because naked people have little influence in our society.
Quite frankly, clothes are the least important part of your physical presence, but they are part of it. Fortunately, they …
Workplace Communications – Generational Differences
Workplace communications has changed dramatically in my lifetime.
When I started working as a programmer in Chicago in the mid 1970s, I had a phone on my desk. If I wanted to talk to my boss, I would call him and his secretary would often answer his phone. If he was not there, she would …
5 Ways To Prepare For Your Vacation
With summer underway, it’s time to reconsider ignoring that vacation time that you think you don’t need. According to the Glassdoor Employment Confidence Survey (Q1 14), the average U.S. employee only takes half (51%) of his or her eligible vacation time. Some are able to cash in their time off and work through the year, …
Hot Water and Stretching are Good for You
Besides the obvious uses for hot water and stretching in your personal and physical life, there are business and career benefits from both too.
Two of my favorite metaphors involve both of these points. They involve Hot Water and Stretching and when applied to your career will help you stand out, get ahead and to …
The Quality of List Determines the Quality of Career
You’ve heard the statement, it’s not who you know or even what you know, it’s not even who knows you – it’s who knows you best.
The connections and the relationships we have with people determine the quality of success in our endeavors. Even with our reach online and across the world, people still do …
Life Isn’t About Finding Yourself
I have several quotations on the wall in my office. One of them is the following:
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)
Why did I select this quote to display to my clients? Because I believe, to be most meaningful, their careers must be created and not simply …
New Perspective Brings Improved Days
The sun was streaming through the window to suggest that negotiation and a willingness to consider a new perspective applies to both personal and business life. Your personal life provides insights for how to conduct business better and experience in business provides realization of how to negotiate better on the personal side, too.
For years …