Today’s post is from Joe Caruso, publisher of SmartBrief’s health care group, who is attending the Society for Human Resource Management’s Staffing Management Conference this week in Las Vegas.
The second day of SHRM’s recruitment conference was up to the challenge posed by its venue, the world’s largest Hilton. The agenda included 32 detailed sessions ranging from recruiting Gen X and Gen Y, to HR analytics, to California employment law. About two-thirds of the 600 recruiters were first-time attendees, making the information both timely and critical to their daily activities.
My informal poll of about 50 people found the most popular reasons for attending were to learn:
- The fundamentals of recruiting.
- The impact on online and social media on human resources.
- Best practices from industry experts, and how to train and ramp up new recruiters.
Journalist Nadira Hira educated the general session on the Gen Y mindset. To effectively attract and manage the “why” generation (my term not hers), managers must understand the high expectations Gen Yers have of themselves and those with whom they interact, she told the group. (read more…)
As usual, we found more good links than we could fit in the SmartBrief on Workforce. Check these out:
- What made you think offshoring didn’t apply to you?
- How can I be fired when I just quit?
- 6 networking mistakes to avoid
- When the boss doesn’t think you’re all that funny
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Today’s post is from Joe Caruso, publisher of SmartBrief’s health care group, who is attending the Society for Human Resource Management’s Staffing Management Conference this week in Las Vegas.
About 600 people have gathered at the SHRM Staffing Management Conference to learn about the critical skill sets that will lead to success today and in the next economic cycle. Attendee interests range from broad — how to use the Internet to source candidates, to narrow — what quantifiable metrics are available to gauge the effectiveness of specific recruiting campaigns. Recruiters are also here to learn from their peers during the ample networking events SHRM has organized.
Keynote speaker and noted author Tim Sanders told the group that in tough times, companies need to make themselves emotionally attractive to employees and candidates.
By investing in quality of life, professional development and morale-boosting activities, employers will see their employees stay longer, hiring costs decline, and productivity (as measured by revenue per employee) increase. (read more…)
Today’s post is from Liz Ruskin, contributing editor for SmartBrief on Leadership.
When will women shatter the glass ceiling trapping them in middle management?
“We think the big breakthrough for women is going to be when the Title IX generation gets to an age when they’re starting to become leaders,” said Robert Damon, North American president of Korn/Ferry International, a panelist at the Milken Institute Global Conference. Title IX is the anti-discrimination legislation credited with bringing gender equality to high school and college sports.
Girls who have reaped the benefits of greater opportunity in sports develop a different style of leadership than what their predecessors had, Damon claims. They “understand leadership and the team environment and competition, and that’s a relatively new phenomenon for girls,” he says That experience, he suggested, leaves them with the attributes they need to break into senior management en masse.
He didn’t say how old the post-Title IX generation has to be for this to occur. (read more…)
We’re still working on your SmartBrief on Workforce. Check out these links while you wait. Or maybe after you take a little nap. You have Karen Dillon’s permission: “The myth of the tireless leader is just that–a myth. The ugly truth about sleeplessness is that it’s linked to obesity, diabetes, depression and, yes, increased mortality. Forgoing sleep doesn’t make you a hero. It makes you ineffective.”
- Debunking the myth of the iron CEO
- Reaching out to stale work contacts
- At 35,000 feet, delaying retirement
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