Author: Kelly Blokdijk
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#SHRM14 Report: Evolution of People Management and the Worker
Five, 10, or 20 years ago, would we have been able to predict the work, worker and workplace we have today? Were we even thinking or talking about big data a decade or two ago? Possibly so, but not necessarily in the context of how it pertains to the dramatic ways we can assess events…
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Hiring Habits for the Holocracy, The Zappos Revolution
Those zany zapponians have done it again… When all visual representations of your core values and corresponding corporate culture resemble a convergence of Spring break debauchery and a carousel of SNL skits, why not create a WOW reaction by foregoing one of the most tedious talent acquisition tasks? What might that be? You ask. Developing…
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The Big ‘But’: Trust & Talent Acquisition
A significant percentage of people involved with screening and selecting job candidates fancy themselves detectives, mind-readers, psychics and psychologists. They’re almost always willing to trust their own gut. But not much else slips unscathed through the scrutiny of these trust deficient evaluators of talent. When this takes place do we end up with a talent…
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How To Tell If You’re Actually Employable
A few of us non-traditional, mold-breaker, non-conformist, square pegs in a land of round holes occasionally jokingly refer to ourselves as unemployable. And, in certain ways that isn’t far from accurate. If we look throughout history we find plenty of well-known business and leadership success stories that wouldn’t have been possible if those responsible didn’t…
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Picture This: Top Career Motivators For the Best of Us and the Rest of Us
Who needs boring book-ish data when you can get cute, colorful, cartoon data? Behold, the rising popularity of image-infused content for the copy-averse crowd. Depicted in this infographic are results from LinkedIn’s December 2013 survey of 18,000 employed professionals in 26 countries. Based on the pictorial, we are initially led to believe that “around the…