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An Open Letter to Someone Taking an Employment Assessment
Dear Job Seeker, Hi there, it’s me, the organizational psychologist with whom you’ll be spending the next few hours. I know that you’re nervous and that I’m all that stands between you and this next gig, but I’d like to give you a few pointers to help make this process less painful for both [...]
SmartRecruiters’ Idealism Pays Off
Today, SmartRecruiters will announce a $5m Series A. Yesterday, TalentCulture had a chance to sit down with Jerome Ternynck, founder and CEO of the Bay Area company, and talk about what this means for his team, the product and the industry moving forward. First up, the details about the round. Started in October, the “pretty [...]
TC Digest: Social Media Policies, Talent Community Definitions and True SaaS
Hey there, welcome to the TC Digest. There is so much content around the web worth highlighting, especially in our industry. This is our small way of attempting to sum it up for you. We hope you keep coming back for more. We’ve been wondering how it would all shake out folks and well, we’re [...]
How To Create A Blog Post in 10 Easy Steps
Blogging is a fact of life in the World of Work these days. Whether you’re guest-posting to create “expert status” in an industry, creating a showcase for your work as a jobseeker or you’ve just been tasked with managing or creating the corporate blog, chances are no matter your position, you might be asked to [...]
Beauty is Pain: An Overlooked Discrimination
Foreword: I wrote this piece as part of a collaborative project with Crystal Miller; who was writing an article for MonsterThinking. The two of us have talked for ages about while there is much said & written about discrimination due to race, religion, disability, and gender in general; the bias for & against beauty is one that’s often overlooked in the world of work. You can see her article on MonsterThinking.Com, “Beauty at Work: How Physical Appearance Impacts Job Search & Careers” here.
TLNT Transform! Join the TalentCulture Crew There
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on TLNT.com Maybe you missed it in the end-of-the-year rush, but late last month, I was a guest on TotalPicture Radio With Peter Clayton, and we talked about a lot of different things concerning HR, talent management, the news trends of 2011, and of course, TLNT. If you didn’t [...]
5 Tips For Onboarding Seasonal Employees
During peak periods – around the holidays, tax season or over the summer – it’s critical that businesses can easily manage the addition of temporary employees and quickly get them up to speed. And from recruiting and training to offboarding, seasonal employees can put your human resources software and processes to the test. Not only [...]
Gen Z in the workplace – thoughts after #TChat
There was a great discussion, and at times, debate, on #TChat last week, all about Generation Z and the workplace. It feels like we just learned about Gen Y and how to engage them in the workplace, and it’s already time to prepare for Gen Z! Most people consider Gen Z, also called “Digital Natives”, [...]
The Collaborative Community Results for NPR and HRevolution
“So, I really liked Kevin’s definition of talent communities from last week’s #TChat Radio Show. Kevin, why don’t you share that?” Stammer. Stutter. I have no idea. Here we were yesterday in our packed HRevolution session on building and maintaining talent communities, me in one of three groups we had broken up in to, and [...]
Emergence of Talent Communities… Not Pools
Within HR and Recruiting, for example, a new technology is unfolding – one which will, in my opinion, change how individuals find work and how companies recruit. Talent Communities are here, driven by the powerful engines of social media, search, big data, ubiquitous computing and social communities.Talent communities are now replacing what many recruiters have traditionally called talent pools. Simply having a database of resumes to sort through to make a talent match has transformed into what we know as social recruiting.
A Talent Community for Angels
The promise of Talent Communities to provide a more efficient employment process can be huge, with recruiting time spent, talent quality, hiring costs and “time to hire” metrics drastically altered from what we have all come to expect over the last 40 years. By maintaining a specific Community goal, a company has a real opportunity to attract workers like George Bailey who aren’t looking for a new job, but are focused on taking on greater challenges instead. The elusive “other 80%” of the workforce, that have been difficult to attract with employment advertising and referrals, can be cultivated with a Talent Community. This can be a major break through that if fully embraced can change the employment landscape forever.
