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#TChat Recap: Change is a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it

They pushed the cleaning carts into the office hallway at the end of the day. They emptied trash cans, wiped down doorways and cleaned office windows, vacuumed the rugs and then moved on to the bathrooms, sharing something in Spanish and laughing. Right when I left for home and needed to use the bathroom. At [...]

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TC Digest: Culture Beats Strategy, User Adoption and Transform HR

If you haven’t noticed, TalentCulture.com has been going through a lot of changes. We’re introducing a new editorial calendar, we’re hard at work on a media kit and the core team is working on a redesign! Why not introduce a new column at the same time? While it’s not consistent yet, we’ve gotten a lot [...]

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Mental Acceleration, Crowdsourcing and Online Chats

Editor’s Note: Dave Ryan is one of the most dedicated #TChat members. Every week, as the tweets fly by and the twitter stream becomes ever harder to keep up with, we see one or two people ask desperately, what is #TChat? They see the hashtag but don’t quite get it. So from one of our [...]

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America’s Dirty Jobs

Editor’s Note: Please read all the way to the bottom where we’ve got an exciting contest for you to enter! When was the last time you cleaned your house or did your own laundry, complete with folding and ironing? If you live in the burbs, do you mow your own lawn? Do you put out [...]

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#TChat Radio: Seeking good enough in HR Recruiting Technology

Politics aside, I was glad when the President called for action to reverse unemployment and create re-employment during his State of the Union address the other night. It’s not a new buzz mantra; it’s one many of us have been advocating from the bottom of the heavy-gravity economic crater. There are so many recommendations on [...]

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TLNT Transform! Join the TalentCulture Crew There

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 [...]

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It is NOT Mandatory to Use Twitter

The #TChat that took place Wednesday was titled, “#TChat Communication Tools: You Can’t Use Them All”.   Specifically, take a look at the questions that were posed and discussed.  The focus of this blog post is on question #2, “how do you as a marketer, recruiter, leader or HR pro, pick and choose how to collaborate [...]

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The #TChat collaborative communication car pool fast lane

I got the invite to Chill with someone. And that’s when it hit me: there’s just too much information, too many content curation tools, too many sharing tools, too many communications tools that don’t really help me communicate. Whirlwind. Zoom. Zis-boom-ba. Turn the fire hose off and get me a real drink. Sure, early adopters [...]

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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 [...]

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Jerome Ternyck

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 [...]

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