Tag Archive | "social media"

Tweet Because of the changing way employees are communicating with each other, organizations are themselves are fundamentally changing, argues Jason Seiden of Ajax Workforce Marketing. And it’s a shift HR can’t afford to ignore. “From managing to dispersing workforces to changing the way they communicate the nuts and bolts of the business to their employee-base,” [...]

Tweet This week’s 5 for Friday rounds up five stories about the latest trends in HR leadership. 5. Your Employee Is an Online Celebrity. Now What Do You Do? Wall Street Journal: “Depending on your corporate culture and risk tolerance, you may want to embrace the business benefits of co-branded employees by giving them lots [...]

Tweet Human resources professionals are finally beginning to understand social media, mobile technology and the effect they are having on employees and the workplace, Jessica Miller-Merrill of Xceptional HR told Monster at the Society for Human Resource Management’s 2012 conference in Atlanta. In the past HR folks would refer to her as a “blooger” or [...]

Tweet Coming off the momentum of two previous events held in the Boston area, Monster.com is holding the third in a series of social recruiting summits in Washington, DC on August 9th to share best practices with employers and college career centers on how to educate, engage and reach the next generation of job candidates [...]

Tweet The annual conference for the Society for Human Resource Management is being held in Atlanta this year, June 24-27. Among the sessions I’m looking forward to: “How Social Media Changes HR” with Jessica Miller-Merrell, SPHR, CEO of Xceptional HR. I recent spoke to Jessica about what HR professionals need to know about social media. [...]

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 five HR news stories as selected by SmartBrief on Workforce readers last week. Why asking applicants for Facebook passwords makes sense (TLNT.com) How on-boarding can hurt [...]

How critical is social media to the Emerging Workforce and how are they incorporating social into their professional lives? On Thursday, February 23rd, Monster hosted an invite-only summit to share best practices with employers and college recruiters on how to reach the next generation of job candidates through social media and networking platforms, such as Facebook.

Authors blogging to build interest in their upcoming books and small business owners using their blog to attract qualified prospects both need an effective blogging strategy to guide their way to personal branding success. An effective blogging strategy differs from tactics, such as keyword optimization or headline engagement formulas, in that strategy takes a “big picture” view of everything associated with your blog.

In compiling the Monster 11 for 2011 list of Top HR and Recruiting bloggers to follow, we fell for the shiny statistics and cool tools which were emerging from the margins to the mainstream, taking a highly analytical and ostensibly objective approach to building our list of recommendations. After all, no one argues with numbers. Which is really too bad. Because as we spent another year listening to, and engaging, with the HR and recruiting social media conversation (and another year of writing posts in the second person), we learned that online, like in war or the workplace, leadership isn’t a matter of consensus.