2014: Year of the Social Employer Brand Ambassador
What’s ahead in talent management for 2014? Exciting times for social media and employer brand strategy!
What’s ahead in talent management for 2014? Exciting times for social media and employer brand strategy!
The #TChat that took place Wednesday was titled, “#TChat Communication Tools: You Can’t Use Them All”. Specifically, take a look at the questions that were posed and discussed. The focus of this blog post is on question #2, “how do you as a marketer, recruiter, leader or HR pro, pick and choose how to collaborate with your colleagues?” I am going to attempt to answer this question from my perspective as a human resources expert, because after all that’s where I came from and that’s where my brain is 24-7. As a starting point, we all know that it is absolutely
Last week on May 25th and 26th, Las Vegas hosted the 2011 HR Demo Show in conjunction with the HRO Today Forum, including the RPO Summit. The point of the demo show was to showcase the best and latest HR and talent management technologies. Organizations that presented were Kenexa, Guidant Group, Epicor, CareerBuilder, Taleo, iCIMS, RECSOLU, JSTN, OneWire and many more. Throughout the two days, I closely followed the main hashtags for the event, which were #HRDemo and #HRTech. I also paid close attention to the Blog Squad, particularly the ones I personally knew—Geoff Webb, Meghan M. Biro and Jessica Merrill.
We’ve heard the term “employee engagement” a gazillion times, and one could even say it’s now just a buzzword. If you ask me, it is the most critical aspect of any successful organization….without a doubt! A positive correlation exists between employee engagement scores and business results (via Right Management – “Employee Engagement, Maximizing Organizational Performance”). I have worked with a dozen plus diverse organizations on their employee engagement strategies, not only identifying their top engagement drivers, but facilitating strategy design and execution. I can see how it could be a buzzword to many because they have not the slightest clue how
Workforce absenteeism – the costs are staggering. But the costs of workforce PRESENTEEISM are far greater. What can and should business and HR professionals do to address this issue?
Social recruiting isn’t really about technology – it’s about what you DO with the technology. Bottom line: It’s (still) all about relationships…