Innovating for Success: Differentiating in the War for Talent
This blog post will explore how businesses can differentiate themselves by adopting alternative recruitment strategies and innovative employee retention techniques to attract the best candidates...
The Power of Transferable Skills: Unleashing Potential Across Industries
One of the most valuable yet often underestimated assets of any job seeker is a robust set of transferable skills. These skills, easily adaptable across various roles and industries, provide both...
Speaking at UKG Works: The Painful HR Truth I Validated
What I realized is we in the HR profession are typically not viewing ourselves as "tech people" or "traditional salespeople" but today, these functions are becoming a larger and larger part of...
Here’s How To Stand Out From The Competition And Create the Perfect Resume
By demonstrating creativity and tapping into your internal passion, you can create a resume that will not only grab the attention of hiring managers but also show them what you truly have to offer.
What Can You Actually Control?
Being a Human Resources Professional can often feel like an exercise in out and out futility. We see people at their very best and conversely at their very worst. I remember the very first time I...
Is Your "Independent Contractor" Really Independent...?
The general rule is that an individual is an independent contractor if the payer has the right to control or direct only the result of the work and not what will be done and how it will be done...
When All The HR Pros Do One Thing, I Tend To Do The Exact Opposite
Those days are certainly gone but it is much like the stock market with it's swings up and down, they will some back in some fashion again. The very best of HR Professionals know you simply have...
HR Pros: Stop The Damn INSANITY!
This company was spending more than $50,000 a year and STILL doing many things manually. That culture seemed to permeate much of the organization, and we all know what they say about change...
Employee Centric Does Not Mean What You Think It Means...
I was told the story recently of a senior executive at a smaller company who was generally in shock when the corporate culture was changing to a more employee centric one and still there were team...
HR Pros: Do You REALLY Know Who Your Customers Are?
It's so easy to forget we in Human Resources are also in Customer Service. Our customers doesn't pay in cash, check, or credit card but rather in time, effort and output...
Where The Hell Do I Go When I Am Pi$&@d Off And "I" Am Human Resources?
There had been multiple complaints from members of the Executive Commitee referencing loud, often vulgar and verbally violent outburts when HR was not present in the room or area.
Have I Been In Human Resources Too Long?
Then, something happens in one of my areas of responsibility at work and I realize EXACTLY what he meant. I have observed over the years many people are quick to jump to the worst case scenario...
Your Resume Sucks!!!!
I look at a lot of resumes every day. Having spent close to 15 years in HR and another 7 or 8 in operations, I suspect over that time frame I have seen over 5,336 resumes.
Money Is Not Always The #1 Reason...
I was a complete A$sh@le. I remember participating in a DiSC Profile Seminar when I worked at the Happiest Place on Earth. The profile I received as called the "Terror Profile" by...
Welcome To The Go Mr. HR Blog
Human Resources is often one of the last things you think about when it comes to your career, business or future growth plans. I have spent a creer in HR covering everything from ...