Sexual harassment has been all over the business news lately, with much of it focusing on how all too often complaints are ignored by management or never … Read more
Sexual Harassment Apps, Expat Costs, and TeamPlayer to See Who’s a Team Player
Take a Break and Read Our News About Sex Breaks
Employers in the U.S. are so far behind those in much of the rest of the first world. While we here in the States argue about parental leave, elsewhere the … Read more
What Better Time to Start a Recruiting Agency or Consultancy
Some new spinoffs, consultancies, and agencies we’ve been in touch with: Recruiting & Advisory Services is for the “insurance restoration … Read more
The Bots and Apps Are Taking Over!
Academia is getting into HR tech development. Two professors and an administrator at Temple University business school have come up with DevelapMe, a … Read more
Not Just a Spanking but a Hard Spanking
Guessing game time: What’s the #1 failure for the year in the recruiting world? Oh, so many choices for the top (or should that be the bottom?) spot. … Read more
Don’t Miss the Psychic Jobs at the End of This Roundup
We have finally found the reason why the American economy has been able to do so much with so few employees. Before we explain the roots of this high … Read more
Advice We Give, Not Take: Become an Ironman Job Seeker
How is a job search like an Ironman triathlon? Bet you’ve never been asked that question before. How is it like a marathon? Sure. Now it seems we … Read more
You’re Right, They Are Faking It. Now Go SaaS Them
There’s a better-than-even chance you don’t know what the cloud is. Fluffy white things in the sky is not correct. And the bad news is that if … Read more
Leave Us Alone. We’re Doing This Roundup at Home (Fully Clothed)
If you have Twitter envy, we have a solution. Just buy your followers. Sure, you could stay up all night tweeting and retweeting, praying you’re … Read more
Now Hiring: Tall Studs Who Don’t Eat on Yom Kippur
So Raghav Singh gave us a little sneak preview of his upcoming ERE Expo presentation about recruiting in China and we couldn’t help but share one of … Read more
Hold the Elevator? Not For You Cell Phone Guy
Have you ever gotten on an elevator and had to stand there floor after floor while some jerk is practically breathing in your face while discussing their … Read more
Not Watching the Olympics at Work? Try Our Time Wasters
Challenger, Gray & Christmas says good Americans should spend more and stay later at work. Really. That’s at least how we, in our own twisted … Read more
A Little Vendor Roundup
Here are a few of the new sites, updates, and other product-and-service vendor goings-on you may not have heard about. Booyango A new site, called … Read more
Take This Smog and Shove It (Or Ignore It and Sell the Weather)
Where’s it easier to get candidates to move to, and where’s it harder? That’s a question the search firm Heidrick & Struggles asked 50 of its U.S. … Read more
Come Change the World One Robot at a Time
What’s the opposite of a dreadfully boring recruiting video, featuring employees or the CEO talking in corporate-speak about your workplace, your … Read more
A Hands-on Vendor Roundup
A new testing company, a new way to keep candidates up to date with their applications, and more, today in our short look at some new recruiting services. Read more
We Tried to Avoid the Typos in Today’s Roundup
All hail the gruntled worker. You are the salt of the earth; the cog that only sort of squeaks. Without you the office coffee pot would never be cleaned; … Read more
The Devil Nearly Took Over Until the God Particle Rescued Us
This is one amazing week. Over there in Switzerland, physicists say they’re pretty sure they’ve discovered the “God particle.” If … Read more
Social Media Recruiting, Onboarding, and Other New Recruiting and HR Launches
Here’s a quick look at some startups and other new launches in recruiting, human resources, and sourcing. JobVidi is a “social network for … Read more
Read Our Roundup or You Might Go to Jail
Did you hear News Corp. may buy Monster? How about how Manpower is pitching webinars to keep HR professionals out of jail? And, if that’s not enough … Read more