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Bullet Points: What Makes Good Companies Tick?

on February 2, 2012

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  • What makes a company a good place to work? It’s not the free quinoa at lunch. The Vault takes a stab at answering for real.
  • Hiring’s up, but it still lags behind the numbers from January 2011. [SHRM]
  • A graffiti artist is one of the more unlikely stockholders standing to become much, much more wealthy because of Facebook’s IPO. [NYT]
  • Flexing his mentorship muscles, the former CEO of Tyco, Dennis Kozlowski, has been encouraging his fellow inmate, the hip-hop star Ja Rule. to go back to school. [Business Insider]
  • This five-year-old has some idea of what lots of logos stand for, but McDonald’s, Apple, and GE lead the pack in recognizability:

         [from the Next Web. See also: The Top 15 Brands on Twitter]

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Twitter’s Ultra-Cheesy Recruiting Video

on January 31, 2012

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They wanted to make the “best/worst recruiting video of all time.” Mission accomplished?

[via TLNT]

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Bullet Points: New Tech Solutions for Talent Acquisition

on January 26, 2012

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Sree Sreenivasan on What Social Media Weekend 2012 Has in Store

on January 24, 2012

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In advance of Social Media Weekend (starting this Friday!), we asked its founder, Sree Sreenivasan, and the journalist Patricia Kitchen what events and speakers are especially worth looking forward to. If you haven’t bought your tickets yet, day passes for Saturday and Sunday are still available.

The Hired Guns: It seems as if you could throw a rock in any direction and hit a social media conference. Why come to yours? In other words, who’s it for? Am I here to manage my personal brand or the brand of my company? Or both?    Read More →

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Bullet Points: When a Resume’s Too Good to Be True

on January 24, 2012

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Bullet Points: Stop the HR Bashing!

on January 20, 2012

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  • Is it time to stop picking on Human Resources? The consultant Ron Ashkenas blames the problems on changing times — the instability that’s resulted from putting new computer systems into place, for instance, as well as the ways that HR functions have begun to overlap with management. “HR’s evolution… does not just concern changing HR. It’s also about helping managers take more accountability for people and culture, and eventually blurring the rigid distinction between ‘HR’and ‘management.’” [HBR]
  • Candidates hoping to be assistant football coach of the University of South Carolina should probably not be smokers or “fat, sloppy guys” if they want to get hired, advised the team’s coach, Steve Spurrier, at a press conference. [Steve Boese's HR Technology]
  • 11 useful tips for marketing your brand on LinkedIn [The Next Web]
  • This year’s just-released list of the 100 best companies to work for might not be full of surprises, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still learn some things from it. [The Business of HR]
  • Mercer gives the infographic treatment to a survey that asked men and women how they felt about their pay, performance goals, and benefits. [HR Bartender]
  • BBC Radio 4′s Michael Rosen speaks with Chris Anderson about the “new wave of public-speaking events, including Ignite and TED, and asks if the culture of ‘Show & Tell’ in American classrooms produces better public speakers” than methods in Britain.
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In the News: Todd Cherches Tells Crain’s Where He Finds His Best Ideas

on January 19, 2012

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Hired Guns blogger Todd Cherches was quoted in yesterday’s Crain’s NY Business, in an article (“Fountain of inspiration”) about possible reasons that the best ideas often seem to come in the shower:

The Hired Guns in the NewsMr. Cherches’ activity of choice involves heading for the bath—–a direction made considerably easier by the fact that he runs his business from his Manhattan apartment and has no employees. “Showering blocks out everything and everyone, so you’re away from it all,” said Mr. Cherches…. “You’re creating a cocoon of solitude.”

For Mr. Cherches, it’s all about the “creative pause,” a term probably coined in the 1960s by Edward de Bono, a famed scholar of creative thinking. The concept refers to a time when someone stops thinking about a problem on purpose, engages in another activity, and often unexpectedly comes up with a solution without even trying.

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Bullet Points: HR and Recruiting

on January 12, 2012

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Bullet Points: Just Say No

on January 9, 2012

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Bullet Points: Happy 2012!

on December 29, 2011

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  • Michael Wolf believes that 2012 will be the year of artist-entrepreneurs, who can cut out the middleman through spunk, digital knowledge, and much easier ways of getting goods to consumers.
  • It’s too late to use this advice for Christmas, but it’s not too late to use it to make your resume more winning: “What Clever Advertising Can Teach Us About Buying Gifts.” As Jordan Weissmann writes, “The trick for a good gift-giver, or good marketer, is to think like the person they’re trying to connect with. In one of the experiments, subjects told to think about the big picture when putting together a resume abandoned the more is more approach, and instead focused on a few appealing accomplishments. It worked.”
  • New York’s American Museum of Natural History has begun a fully paid Master of Arts in Teaching program for aspiring science teachers. An open house for the program will be held on Saturday, 7 January.
  • If there was one previously admired work habit that took a beating in 2011, it was the energy-sapping habit of multitasking. But even if you’ve already stopped trying to do a dozen things at a time, there’s always room for improvement in other areas: “7 Things Highly Productive People Do“. [Inc.]

And from The Hired Guns blog:

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