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Clean Up Week – Post 1 – IPMA Central Site

March 14, 2010

I have a lot of news items and other trivia in my inbox that I will be cleaning out this week. First on the agenda, if you are interested in public sector HR, there is a new website for IPMA-HR Central Region. Plus, this will have information on the upcoming conference. You can find it [...]

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Track HR Research

February 10, 2010

Just cannot get enough HR research. Are you interested in HR findings but just need an easy way to track research?  Alison Mallard has set up a site where she has students review recent research. You can find it at – http://www.ioatwork.com. It is a great site if you want to keep up on the research [...]

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OFCCP Report

February 9, 2010

The OFCCP is a federal agency that enforces employment discrimination laws for those organizations receiving federal funds. The Center for Corporate Equality (CCE) has released its annual report summarizing enforcement results developed by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) on their equal employment and affirmative action requirements. The report, A [...]

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A New Blog on Assessment

January 20, 2010

For the more technically oriented reader in the audience, with a specific interest in advanced topics in assessment – there is a new blog out there. It can be found at http://www.assess.com/blog/. It is a product of Assessment System Corporation. They do a lot of good work in the area of computerized testing.

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74% or Adults Read a Newspaper – Could It Be True?

November 25, 2009

According to the Akron Beacon Journal:
“A national study says 74 percent of all adults in the United States — nearly 171 million people — read a newspaper or its online component during the past week.”
So could it be true? I guess it could be, if you define an “adult” as anyone over 30.
All I know [...]

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All a Twitter

September 24, 2009

We have previously discussed the phenomena of employers searching social network sites for information on job candidates. The September issue of IPMA HR News report on a CareerBuilder Survey that finds 45% of employers use social network sites to research job candidates, up from 22%.
Of those:

29% use FaceBook
26% LinkedIn
21% MySpace
11% Blogs
7% Twitter

My question would be what [...]

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New Job Page

September 15, 2009

Originally, I was going to post job openings that I received here in the blog itself. However, I found it easier to create a separate FaceBook page. So, if you are interested in both local and national job openings in HR, you can join my FaceBook group at DDoverspike Job Listing Home page.

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From Our Friends at HR Tests

September 7, 2009

From Bryan Baldwin and the excellent blog at HR Tests.
Case in point: the state of Washington recently decided to abandon their efforts to implement SAP E-Recruiting after nearly three years and millions of dollars. The state will now go with a hosted solution which is estimated to be $700-800,000 a year cheaper (and hopefully much [...]

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Safety When Driving

June 6, 2009

Driving is one of the more complicated information processing tasks that any of us are asked to complete in our lifetime. It places a tremendous strain on our attentional resources and ability to respond quickly.
Camille Noe Pagan has written an interesting article on driving for women for Forbes magazine. You can check it out here. [...]

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NEO HR Powerhouse 2

May 1, 2009

Last week I mentioned the concentration of human resource consulting firms in the Northeast Ohio area. I think this wealth of knowledge and experience is a strength that should be built upon in bringing about a renaissance in the NEO area. Therefore, I would like to mention another firm, again headed up by a University [...]

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