At the beginning of July Graduate Careers Australia released a series of reports on what university graduates are thinking and how these thoughts match those of employers. The survey had 32,000 responses over a 9 week period in mid 2007.
The highlights of the report are available in the press release however I have reproduced some [...]
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There are many barriers to the take up of social networking tools, and Enterprise 2.0, within organisations. One of the big ones is fear, which in part is due to a lack of understanding of the tools and a lack of governance. A couple of days ago ComputerWorld published a story about the six commandments [...]
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About 3 weeks ago I posted about a new service from Chandler Macleod called CMyPeople, following the post Roger Christie from Sefiani Communications Group called saying that he had read the blog post and arranged for me to go into Chandler Macleod to complete the full survey before the official release. Not only did he [...]
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Today I saw two posts float past on the Friendfeed feed in Twhirl about a new startup Glassdoor that has recently launched so I figured I needed to take a look. The first post was from my newest tech news location The Inquisitr, which provided a good basic “tech like” overview of the service.
Glassdoor takes [...]
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Oh man what a storm.
Jason Calacanis has triggered quite a storm in the tech community with his post “How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips)“. Overall the tips are very very good, but the one that caused a lot of the stir was:
Fire people who are not workaholics. don’t love their [...]
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It’s time for another Carnival of HR. Ok don’t leave you might learn something.
Gautam Ghosh (who seems to be everywhere these days) hosted the long running Carnival of HR over on his blog. There are links to 8 or 9 great blog posts from all over the global, including a audio post. Even on of [...]
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We all know disengaged employees are bad. Here is a story of a guy who had his mate shoot him in the shoulder (Hat Tip Evil HR Lady) so he did not have to go to work!! True story, I kid you not.
Sheriff’s detectives in Franklin County, Washington, say a man had his friend shoot [...]
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Today I received an email directing me to a new list called “The HR Bible: 100 Articles Every Human Resources Pro Should Read“. Given at one point had grand plans of building a one stop shop of this information, I had to look.
An initial scan over the titles provided we with a sense of excitement, [...]
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Found a great video (for some reason I can’t embed it in my blog) via Employee Engagement: Results That Matter put together by McDaniel Partners detailing some very interesting insights and statistics around employee engagement, well worth the 4 minute watch.
(Hat tip: HR 101).
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Just a quick follow up post, on my higher ESAT = profitable companies post last week. The 2008 Fortune Top 100 Places to Work for in America has been released, and the winners are:-
1. Google
2. Quicken Loans
3. Wegmans Food Markets
4. Edward Jones
5. Genentech
6. Cisco Systems
7. Starbucks
8. Qualcomm
9. Goldman Sachs
10. Methodist Hospital Syste
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