Next week (hurray) I’m heading out to the HR Technology Conference & Exposition – one of my favorite annual events. I love the sessions, the demos, the Pitchfest, the Start-Up Pavilion, the Happy Hours, the “let’s catch up over lunch”
The Two-Week Notice is Total BS
It’s time to address an annoying, longstanding, and frankly outdated tradition: the two-week notice. A business practice that is as obsolete as fax machines and paper resumes. Once upon a time, in an era lost to the mists of time,
When HR Confuses Activity with Impact
Let’s acknowledge that HR professionals are human beings (really) and, like everyone else, they can easily get caught up in the day-to-day hustle of checking off tasks on their to-do lists. But being “busy” doesn’t necessarily mean being effective. Activity
The Blame Game : Hiring Edition
I’ve been gathering a fair number of timely anecdotes from job seekers who have recently found themselves summoned to multiple interviews for a single job. Candidates have been finding themselves running the gauntlet of 3 to 5 to 8 (EIGHT!)
