Mary Ellen
#LASHRM13: Hiring American Veterans – Best Practices in Action
Tweet Hiring veterans can be patriotic and profitable, but you have to be prepared for many complexities, panelists told an audience at the Louisiana Conference on Human Resources in Baton Rouge last month. Lynne Broussard, human resources director for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana, and Don Howard, regional director at the Louisiana Department of Veterans [...]
Continue reading...#LASHRM13: HR’s Turning Point: Are You Staying in Place or Moving Forward?
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Tweet Adapting to project-oriented work and accepting the social nature of today’s workforce will help human resources professionals make the critical shift away from purely tactical functions and move toward essential strategic roles that help companies succeed. That was the message of HR practitioner Robin Schooling and recruitment marketer/technologist Bill Boorman earlier this week at [...]
Continue reading...Live From SXSW: How to Keep Working Parents In & Innovating
Sunday, March 10, 2013
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We’re out at SXSWi in Austin this week, and work-life balance is a hot topic for tech innovators. Lisa Belkin, senior columnist on Life/Work/Family at The Huffington Post, and Sara DeWitt, vice president of PBS KIDS Digital, tackled the topic in their session on Sunday. Here’s a roundup.
Continue reading...5 for Friday: Workforce Development Edition
Friday, February 8, 2013
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Tweet This week’s 5 for Friday rounds up five stories about the latest trends in workforce development. The Agile Recruiting Manifesto. ERE.net: “I did some research about agile software development, and found out the the principles behind it were formulated in 2001 in a document called The Agile Manifesto. There seemed to be a great [...]
Continue reading...In Case You Missed It
Monday, October 29, 2012
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Tweet SmartBrief on Workforce is a daily e-newsletter for HR professionals, curating essential articles on finding the best talent, motivating top performers and increasing team productivity. Here are the top HR news stories as selected by SmartBrief on Workforce readers last week. Hiring the smartest people may be a dumb move (Harvard Business Review online) Evernote [...]
Continue reading...In Case You Missed It
Monday, October 8, 2012
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Tweet SmartBrief on Workforce is a daily e-newsletter for HR professionals, curating essential articles on finding the best talent, motivating top performers and increasing team productivity. Here are the top HR news stories as selected by SmartBrief on Workforce readers last week. What employers want to see from job candidates (Inc. online) The war for talent [...]
Continue reading...5 for Friday: HR Technology Conference Preview Edition
Friday, October 5, 2012
Tweet Next week, we’ll be joining all the other HR pros and technology companies at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago. To help everyone get ready, this week’s 5 for Friday rounds up five stories about the conference. Brief History of HR Tech Trends & Technology Acquisitions for #HRTechConf. Blogging4Jobs: “There has been an awful [...]
Continue reading...Why Monster Worldwide Joined the Internet Association
Thursday, September 20, 2012
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Tweet Monster Worldwide announced this week that it has joined the Internet Association as a founding member. I spoke to Melissa Wojciak, vice president of government relations for Monster to learn more about the group’s mission. The member companies come from a diverse group of industries. What mission unites them in this organization? All of [...]
Continue reading...In Case You Missed It
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
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Tweet SmartBrief on Workforceis a daily e-newsletter for HR professionals, curating essential articles on finding the best talent, motivating top performers and increasing team productivity. Here are the top HR news stories as selected by SmartBrief on Workforce readers last week. How to identify former employees who are worth re-hiring (Blogging4Jobs) Commentary: Retirement benefits have evolved (The [...]
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
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