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Job Loss in Government

October 12, 2009

I find it extremely difficult to predict the future. Everytime I try to I am wrong.
So I provide this report from IPMA-HR on job losses in the government. There are of course two issues. One how many losses will there be over the next two years. Two, how will this impact the relative ratio of government [...]

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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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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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More on Googling for Applicant Information

June 23, 2009

We have previously discussed googling for applicant information. According to a recent news item, the City of Bozeman, MT, takes this to a new extreme. According to the news item, and also our good friends at HR Tests:
Looking for a way to turn off qualified applicants in one easy step? The City of Bozeman, MT [...]

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Academic Time to Hire

May 19, 2009

When I start thinking about the issue of time-to-hire, I contrast two very different approaches. The two approaches are the 1) corporate – we need someone yesterday approach and the 2) academic – it takes us a year to fill a position approach.
So, I thought I would reflect on the academic approach. The very people [...]

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Killing the Messenger – Criticism of Testing

April 2, 2009

In our society, there also seems to be a real distrust, perhaps even hatred, of testing. For me, the scary part is that as a result of the expansion of standardized testing in the schools, this distrust of testing is now being taught by teachers to their elementary school classes. Thus, from an early age, [...]

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Public Sector High Stakes Testing – Musings on the Competition

April 1, 2009

Although we regard public sector hiring in high stakes positions such as police as being based on “merit,” it is more of a competition. Because it is a competition, people get upset when they think someone else has an unfair advantage in that competition. 10,000 people may be competing for 10 positions and in such [...]

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Location, Location, Location

January 30, 2009

One of the old beliefs in recruitment was that a job seeker would not take a job because of location, but might turn down certain jobs because of location. In recent years, a number of consultants and researchers have suggested that the old finding is no longer valid and that people will take a job [...]

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Ask HR Lighthouse – Dropping the Criminal Record Question

January 16, 2009

I received this question for discussion. Here goes:
Basically, some US Cities are starting to eliminate questions from their job applications asking whether prospective employees have been convicted of a crime. The purpose – to keep convicts from being shut out of the workforce.
They may still conduct background checks before hire, but the basic idea is [...]

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Technology and HR Services Article Published

October 14, 2008

I have published another column in the IPMA-HR News for September (access to the article usually requires membership). The article deals with Internet technology and selection.
Briefly, in the article I argue that Selection and Web-based recruitment strategies need not be seen as incompatible. Well-designed selection instruments can compliment the recruitment process by creating a positive [...]

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