Sharpen your pencils for September learning opportunities.
September marks the return to school for children around the US and for many of them, their Fall curriculums are scaled back as a result of the economic slowdown. Just as motivated school districts and PTAs invent creative ways to hold on to the art, sports, and music programs that [...]
“Where should I post my job opening?”
Six HR tips for using job aggregators.
I hear this question weekly from HR colleagues and clients. Assuming the people asking this question are specifically targeting active candidates (pursuing the estimated 80% of talent who aren’t actively checking out new positions on job boards is a completely different type [...]
Congratulations to the many clients and colleagues who have recently passed significant milestones of attaining their HRCI or WorldatWork professional credentials including PHR, SPHR, GPHR, SPHR – CA, CCP, CBP, and GRP! Take a well deserved breath of fresh air after so many long hours of studying and preparing for the exams. Now that you have [...]
Is it time to scrutinize your compensation practices?
Are you a compensation professional in an organization whose workforce, after multiple rounds of reorganizations and workforce reductions, resembles nothing like it had 24 months ago? Are you working with an emerging business whose growth has outpaced its development of formalized job families or pay structures?
If these [...]
If your training and development budgets haven’t yet bounced back to pre-recession levels, you can still find relevant and low cost or free offerings from many HR and communication experts. Do you need HRCI recertification credits? Read on.
Here is the collection of 14 or so events that are either archived or scheduled for dates in [...]
Work toward professional recertification one mile (i.e., one CEU credit) at a time.
For those of you who have trained for long distance races like a marathon, you’ll know well that success in reaching the finish line depends on you putting your shoes on and training one mile at a time. Accumulating recertification credits for [...]
With the rapid pace of change in the HR field and emerging social media influences on business communications it’s easy to feel like you might be left behind on emerging trends. Colleagues and clients often ask me for ideas on how to best keep up with the changes while balancing limited budgets and scarce capacity. Unfortunately, I can’t [...]
Employer’s 401(k) matches are making a comeback
An article from yesterday’s Washington Post about the emerging trend of reinstated retirement benefits must surely be welcome news to thousands of employees whose employers froze defined contribution plan employer match provisions as a means to manage costs during the economic crisis. The article suggests that large employers will lead [...]