Meghan M. Biro, Author at TalentCulture

#TChat Recap: How To Build And Market Your Employer Brand

This week we talked about how to identify, grow and market your employer brand. No matter how you slice it, it’s really a lesson on research and positioning and how you end up marketing your company as the place to work. Our guest was Susan LaMotte, SPHR, founder of exaqueo, a workforce consultancy. Susan explained that you can’t be everything to everyone and too many companies are trying to be just that. No matter how “great” you think your company is, the “greatness” message won’t weed out the people who aren’t a great fit for your company. So first you should ask your current employees

#TChat Recap: How To Create A Culture That Rocks

On July 8th we discussed how to create a company culture that rocks. Our guest was my friend Jim Knight, a leading training and development expert who worked with Hard Rock International for 20 years where he led the renowned School Of Hard Rocks. Jim offered some rocking, high energy dialogue around the art of candidate engagement and why its vital to develop a cohesive company culture. A powerful, productive and fun company culture is the sum total of its employees. As Jim put it, employees collectively make up the heart and soul of the organization. This week’s show was a real blast and, for me, really brought home the importance of the

#TChat Recap: Live From #SHRM15: The Brilliant HR Profession Of Today And Tomorrow

This week the TalentCulture #TChat Show was live from the 2015 SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas – where we discussed the brilliant HR profession of today and tomorrow. The special show included three awesome guests: Steve Browne, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, Executive Director of HR at LaRosa’s, Inc., Chanel Jackson, HR Business Partner at Honda of America Mfg., Inc. and Callie Zipple, PHR, HR Rewards Analyst at Zebra Technologies. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), HR professionals are feeling more confident about the job security and growth opportunities than ever. So what does this mean? Simply put, the HR profession has never looked brighter.

#TChat Recap: How Employee Engagement Empowers The Employer Brand

This week Stacy Zapar, Founder of Tenfold, and recruiting strategist, trainer & advisor joined us to discuss how employee engagement empowers the employer brand. I always love her energy and passion for this topic. Spending ridiculous amounts of money to source sought-after skill sets and recruit top talent won’t get you very far when your employer brand has hit the skids. Meaning, if your current employees aren’t usually happy, even jazzed about working for your company, then that poison seeps into the groundwater and taints the wells around for miles and miles. This is why, Stacy explained, you must step up your

#TChat Recap: The Art Of Candidate Engagement

This week we were joined by Johnny Campbell, Founder and CEO at Social Talent; Sara Fleischmann, Purple Squirrel Hunter at Hewlett-Packard; and Stacy Zapar, Founder of Tenfold, and recruiting strategist, trainer & advisor. We talked about the art of candidate engagement. Organizations spend money trying to source the right talent. The digital landscape offer recruiters numerous ways to connect with talent both on- and offline. But why are spray-and-pray still so common? How can recruiter balance IRL relationship building while utilizing technology to the max? A1: Safety in numbers. If everyone else is doing it, surely it must work! #TChat #SprayAndPraySucks —

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#TChat Recap: Business Strategies That Help CHROs Sleep At Night

This week we were joined by Mark Stelzner, Founder of IA HR, a consulting firm that helps HR leaders transform their organizations with confidence. This week we talked about business strategies that help CHRO’s sleep at night. HR is at a point of change and has been struggling to keep up over the past years. There is a complexity of the work environment regardless of the size of the organization and people are focusing on everything from empowering the EDP to change management. Many organizations out there are really focusing on the problems, not the solutions available. So how should we approach strategic

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My Fight Song: Women In Technology

“This is my fight song…” I am pounding out my run in the rain listening to Rachel Platt’s new song. Hmmm…I start to eye roll and suspect this will probably be the next Disney Warrior Princess theme song…But for now… It’s mine. “Like a small boat On the ocean Sending big waves Into motion” “Big waves”…I laugh remembering how big waves started so small for my career. Because in full disclosure, I was a geeky college co-ed chemistry major trying so hard not to get organic chem lab experiments gone wrong on my clothes (and coming home reeking from them so

#TChat Recap: How Improving The Candidate Experience Empowers A Better Workforce

This week we were joined by Elaine Orler, Chairman and Co-Founder of the Talent Board and the CandEs; and Gerry Crispin, Co-Founder of the Talent Board and the CandEs. We discussed how improving the candidate experience can improve and empower the workforce. These days, candidates have expectations on organizations as soon as they click on the “submit” button for a job application. If these expectations are not met, it is highly likely that they will get disappointment and actively discourage other people to apply to the organization. On the flip side, if the candidate experience is good, candidates are very likely to

#TChat Recap: How True Relationship Building Rises Above Social

This week we were joined by Rob Garcia, Silicon Valley product executive, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at ConnectUp. Rob talked with us about why true relationship building rises above and beyond social media. We explored ideas around cementing relationships which often start in the digital space and move into more ‘real’ relationships. We live in an age when social media penetrates and influences almost every area of corporate communications. Long gone are the formal protocols of the “offline” networking world – when professional and social networking took a lot more work to uncover, establish, and deepen mutually beneficial business relationships. Social media has made

#TChat Recap: Live From Ireland: The IT@Cork European Technology Summit

This week, Kevin W. Grossman and I presented a very special live podcast and #TChat Twitter chat from Cork, Ireland. Hosted at the popular IT@Cork European Technology Summit, this week we focused on the the impact of gender diversity on technology business performance around the world. We had the luck of the Irish with our stellar line up of international guest experts. This week’s awesome guests were David Parry-Jones, VP UKI Vmware; Caroline O’Driscoll, Tax Partner at KPMG, Vice Chair of IT@cork; Michael Loftus, Head of Faculty of Engineering & Science at CIT. Bucking the international norm, women in Ireland hold positions of seniority in a staggering

#TChat Recap: Why Internal Customer Service Is So Important

Service must be a total commitment. Service is not just for the front line, but for every employee of any business – from the individual contributor to the CEO, explained Shep Hyken in this week’s #TChat . Shepard Presentations’s Chief Amazement Officer spoke with us about the traditional ways of thinking of “customer service” – in the form of client facing professionals who help us throughout the sales process. Shep then went on to highlight new, more collaborative ways of identifying what customer service can mean and who is really involved. Everyone, Shep explained, has a customer. If it is not the outside customer, then it is the internal customer – anyone within

#TChat Recap: How To Turn Horrible Bosses Into Happier Relationships

A bad boss can undermine our ability to work happy and hard. Poor communication skills, micromanaging, lack of direction, bullying — any of these characteristics can make a boss difficult to work with leading to stress, anxiety, frustration, absenteeism and even depression. This week we interviewed Tony Deblauwe, Founder of consulting firm HR4Change. Tony spoke about how to turn horrible bosses into happier relationships. Tony offered a relaxed and engaging dialogue with lots of practical advice and research mixed in with real life experiences like his startling encounter with a new boss as a young(er) pro in the recruitment sector. The show highlighted powerful techniques for reinventing your relationship with

#TChat Preview: How To Turn Horrible Bosses Into Happier Relationships

The TalentCulture #TChat Show is back live on Wednesday, April 22, 2015, at its new time from 1-2 pm ET (10-11 am PT). Last week we talked about how to look people in the eye digitally, and this week we’re going to talk about how to turn horrible bosses into happier relationships. Today we’re faced with a difficult and complex economic landscape never before seen in the modern world. Regardless of the job growth of late and unemployment plummeting, wages are still pretty flat and employers and workers are under a great deal of strain to produce. Unfortunately, a bad boss can

#TChat Recap: How To Look People In The Eye Digitally

Building and sustaining authentic relationships IRL are not always easy, and it could be even more challenging to do it online. It has never been easier to connect with people by a simple click on the “add” button, but how do we foster and strengthen the relationships? This week’s #TChat guest: Ted Rubin, a leading Social Marketing Strategist, Keynote Speaker, Brand Evangelist, and Acting CMO of Brand Innovators, shared his insight on how to build strong relationships online and how to look people in the eye digitally. Many of us learned how to connect properly with people at a very young age. We learned

Will Leaders Adapt To Social Software?

We are in dire need of better ways of communicating with each other! Despite the opportunities provided by the global, hyper-networked, social and mobile new world of work we seem to still struggle to get things done. That’s what makes the emergence of social software such a remarkable and powerful gift — with profound implications for fostering innovation, driving collaboration and deepening engagement. What’s interesting is that, for some reason, HR is notable for poor user adoption of new communications options like team-mailings, live chats and more. We Are Not So Much At A Crossroads As We Are At Crossed Wires! A range of vendors are launching new, powerful products, and the market is growing. According

#TChat Recap: Adopting Social Software For Workforce Collaboration

There is no question about it – social software enables workforce collaboration and communication. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates productivity improves by 20-25% in organizations with connected employees, and the potential for revenue amounts to $1.3 trillion per year. So why is it so hard to get adoption traction for internal social media and internal communication? How can enterprises today resume responsibility for communication happening among employees and even encourage it? This week’s #TChat guests: Shel Holtz, Principal of Holtz Communication + Technology and a prolific blogger and co-host of the first and longest-running communications podcast shared his insight on the adoption of social software

#TChat Recap: The Predictive Power Of HR Analytics

We could easily be intimidated by data. Yet, we crave answers on how to make the best hires, reduce cost, drive strategy… the list goes on and on. Many organizations now turn to predictive analytics: the ability to take what happened in the past and find common relationships and factors (leveraging human behavior and neural networks) to model and predict the future, enabling us to report back in analytics with recommendations for the future. Finance, Sales, and Marketing departments have already realized the importance of predictive analytics. Now it’s HR’s turn to gaze into the crystal ball. This week’s #TChat guests: Chad

#TChat Preview: The Predictive Power Of HR Analytics

The TalentCulture #TChat Show is back live on Wednesday, April 1, 2015, from 7-8 pm ET (4-5 pm PT). The #TChat radio portion runs the first 30 minutes from 7-7:30 pm ET, followed by the #TChat Twitter chat from 7:30-8 pm ET. In a global market where the “recruiter spends on average 6.25 seconds reviewing a resume” (according to Susan Adams from Forbes), and focuses “80% of their time on Name, Current Title/Company, Start Dates and End dates and Education,” it’s no wonder the “gut feel in hiring” is less accurate than a coin flip. To recruit and develop the best (and

HR’s Predictive Power on Your Customer

A nurse snarled at me for my 3rd repeated call on my hospital bed. 3 hours past pain medication post-surgery. I sighed… “How did they possibly hire this nurse?” After a second nurse came in later to administer the WRONG medication to me, I really started to get nervous. Lucky for me, a different shift nurse came in and my experience shifted from “get me out of here” to “amazing”. How did this healthcare organization get hiring so wrong on the first 2 and right on 3rd? They aren’t alone. Let’s face it, as a customer – anywhere- retail, call centers,

Branding To Influence Today’s Ultra-Informed Talent

Today’s job seekers are more informed than ever, fully researching companies and reading employee reviews before they even apply to a job. At the same time, competition for qualified candidates with the needed skill sets and expertise is on the rise. Given this challenging environment, employers must figure out how they can ensure their messaging stands out and attracts – and retains – right-fit talent. To better attract, engage and hire today’s ultra-informed talent, companies must better promote and sell their culture and their open jobs without bombarding them with inconsistent and irrelevant information. Companies must project a strong employer brand,

5 Tips To Selecting The Right HR Technology

The challenges and opportunities for HR and Leadership teams have never been greater. Potential hires have more job screening tools and work choices than ever before. Meanwhile, organizations must contend with an employment pool that is global in scope. If things weren’t daunting enough, technology is evolving faster than our ability to process and adapt to it. Well, almost. So, how does someone in HR select the right technology for their organization? Here are five things to consider: 1) Find the Best Talent Regardless of Geography: Companies that select top talent will have the brainpower to adapt, innovate and manage technological

#TChat Recap: #DiceInnovate Relationships Win In Tech Recruiting

The competition for top tech talent is as fierce as ever, and the talent knows it. According to Dice’s recent Tech Candidate Sentiment Survey, at least 50% of candidate respondents said they wish recruiters would do more research before calling, but this is significantly down from 2013. Recruiters need to aim with accuracy to successfully source candidates with in-demand STEM skills. Social, mobile, analytics, and cloud are essential tools for authentic relationship-building and tech talent engagement. This week’s #TChat guests Ashley Fox, Program Associate at Partnership for Public Service; and Pete Radloff, Lead Technical Recruiter with comScore, shared how the right

Passive Recruiting Encourages Relationships And Conversation

Passive recruiting is like the more mysterious sibling of active recruiting. Different from traditional recruiting, passive recruiting involves targeting people who don’t have a strong desire to be recruited. HR professionals and leaders are often unaware how it can be used to help them fill job positions. Passive recruiting can work for your organization, but you need to understand the reason why it works and how it is done most effectively. An effective method is using social media channels and forums to start conversations. It can be as easy as getting to know someone new on Twitter or discovering someone’s blog

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Meghan M. Biro

Meghan M. Biro

#TChat Recap: How To Build And Market Your Employer Brand

#TChat Recap: How To Create A Culture That Rocks

#TChat Recap: Live From #SHRM15: The Brilliant HR Profession Of Today And Tomorrow

#TChat Recap: How Employee Engagement Empowers The Employer Brand

#TChat Recap: The Art Of Candidate Engagement

#TChat Recap: Business Strategies That Help CHROs Sleep At Night

My Fight Song: Women In Technology

#TChat Recap: How Improving The Candidate Experience Empowers A Better Workforce

#TChat Recap: Live From Ireland: The IT@Cork European Technology Summit

#TChat Recap: Why Internal Customer Service Is So Important

#TChat Recap: How To Turn Horrible Bosses Into Happier Relationships

#TChat Preview: How To Turn Horrible Bosses Into Happier Relationships

Will Leaders Adapt To Social Software?

#TChat Recap: The Predictive Power Of HR Analytics

#TChat Preview: The Predictive Power Of HR Analytics

HR’s Predictive Power on Your Customer

Branding To Influence Today’s Ultra-Informed Talent

5 Tips To Selecting The Right HR Technology

#TChat Recap: #DiceInnovate Relationships Win In Tech Recruiting

Passive Recruiting Encourages Relationships And Conversation

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