From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Why I spend my weekends at the bar

September 26, 2009

Going to Barcamp TampaBay As part of my on-going personal development plan for keeping my skills up to date, I will be attending a local technology conference here in Tampa called Barcamp Tampa Bay.   I am attending as a human resources professional, business writer, and an amateur geek.  I highly recommend that all professionals do [...]

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Health Care Attack Ad

September 25, 2009

No matter where you stand on the health care reform issue, you really need to watch this video.  It will either amuse you, scare you, or enrage you.  Let me know which in the comments! Related articles by Zemanta SEIU Pushes Back On Report That It’s Ok With No Public Plan (huffingtonpost.com) How the Baucus [...]

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Bill Boorman and The 9th “Wonder” of the World

September 24, 2009

Over There Thursday  – the United Kingdom In this edition of Over There Thursday, we head from the Savage Truth of Australia to the United Kingdom. This week, we have a guest post from a formidable English recruiter who crafted this post while flying from the United Kingdom to Canada where he was last seen [...]

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Molding Future HR Leaders

September 24, 2009

I had a great time presenting to the members of the HR Tampa student chapter.  We met in the Tampa office of Bernard Hodes, thanks to the courtesy of the awesome Carol McDaniel.   Thanks also to Toni Mayros for asking me to speak. It was fun and exciting to talk HR and social media [...]

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Taking social media into the mainstream

September 22, 2009

Image by star5112 via Flickr The Great State of Human Resources So there is this new theme that I have been beating the drums about for the past few days. If you have been following along already, you will know that the general theme is that HR is not dead.  (Check out all the rest [...]

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Help the HR students of Tampa!

September 22, 2009

Image by Dshalock® the Libertarian Emperor of America via Flickr I need your help! I am speaking about social networking and blogging on Wednesday night to a diverse group of graduate students who are part of the HR Tampa Student Chapter.  I will be presenting at the Tampa offices of Bernard Hodes, thannks to the [...]

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This is your brain on HR

September 19, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Bi-polar Functionality Recently I have been working all week on a thought inspired by my attendance at the ERE Expo last week. I had been thinking about the growing degree of differentiation I see in the way HR generalists and recruiters approach their work.  I developed this typology on 7 types of [...]

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Holy golf shot, Batman!

September 19, 2009

How cool is this?  Jason Hargett hits the golf shot of a lifetime at the Mark Eaton Charity Golf Classic in Utah!

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HR – Not Dead Yet

September 18, 2009

Another controversial post In my opinion, Laurie Ruettimann is one of the most influential and disruptive thought leaders in  human resources.   She wrote yet another thought provoking blog post this week on the topic of whether or not HR is a dying field. Update: Check out all the rest of the discussion on the “Death [...]

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“Over There Thursday” – The Savage Truth

September 17, 2009

New Feature on Human Race Horses Today marks the launch of a new feature series on the Human Race Horses blog.   I am calling it “Over There Thursday”.  The idea is to bring across and present some  different perspectives on HR, Recruiting, careers, and business  from outside the US on my US – centric [...]

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