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one of the reasons i love Twitter so much is for the instant, succinct feedback you can receive from your followers. the other day, under the Fistful of Talent account, i asked the simple question, why is HR so easy to fall into? and it got me thinking quite a bit. check out the post on Fistful of Talent today on the issue... and thanks to tweeters who responded to the question including... as well as fellow HR blogger, Robert Smith of the Maine HR Cafe who shared his story of falling into HR on his blog.
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do you know any farmers? seriously. one of my friends, Adrienne, is a farmer, with a tractor and all. and yes, we both live in DC. check out Red Wiggler in Montgomery County, Maryland (30 minutes outside of DC) where she's a farm manager. they are good people doing great work. and today, over on Fistful of Talent, i write about a little people management issue they are facing -at Red Wiggler. get my take on it... or rather, get my take on many on the people management issues HR people face and are challenged to deal with in the workplace. i think it's your typical "employee relations" issue. or if that topic bores you, just go check out a bit about the Red Wiggler farm by hopping directly over to their website or their blog.
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some cool stuff on Fistful of Talent this week... i'll stay a bit quiet on this front while you hop on over to FOT and check out today's post on the importance of HR pros being PR pros... and then, we're following up with episode two of FOTv on tomorrow - and i'm hosting the episode! woo! see you there, folks.
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dudes. go check out the group bloggy i write for, Fistful of Talent. go now. quit reading this! we launched the pilot episode of FOTv and the show is online. keep in mind it's a pilot - and we'll get better at this... but we're excited to jump into the video space. that's all for today.
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in the recruiting and HR world, you hear a lot of talk about the value of social media to build communities and to recruit candidates. a funny thing happens though once you've brought a candidate in the door using social media... all of a sudden, it's as if social media isn't such a good thing, and in some organizations, maybe the use of social media is actually prohibited in the workplace - a big fat FAIL. check out my take on how to deal with the use of social media in the worlplace over on Fistful of Talent today including how it fits in with the engagement puzzle, and why gen y types won't understand you banning it.
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over at Fistful of Talent, we put out our second installment of the The Talent Management Blog Power Rankings 2.0 [Sponsored by FOT and the HR Capitalist]. i have really loved seeing the appreciation and joy folks have shown for being mentioned or voted into the top 25. the pleasure is ours - to be part of the same community is really neat. one of the things we've seen happen after the rankings are comments from folks who didn't make the list about not making the list, or asking how to be considered in the rankings.
sorry to be the queen of mean on this one... but there's my take. we had 115 blogs on our "blogroll" for the rankings this time around. any of the pollsters can add to the blogroll at any time, and any of us can "write in" a blog if they'd like. if you weren’t voted on, if you didn’t make the top 25 though… is it because we just don’t know about you? sure, it's a fair enough question. the blogosphere is big. HUGE. so what to do?
to borrow from Penelope Trunk who provides a guide to blogging on her site, “blogging is conversation, and it is much more fun if you are part of it, instead of just talking at people.” so that means you've got to:
there are a lot of tips out there for how to grow your blog and gain an audience. you can use SEO, and other tools/technologies that i don’t really understand… but i dunno if all that jazz is going to help if you aren’t part of a community, the community rather. it takes a village. another Penelope tip: write at the very edge of that topic. if you write in the center, that’s where everyone else is and it will be hard to present something that is unique.
so if you wanna be noticed? get in the game. be part of the conversation. i've discovered fantastic new bloggers who have visited FOT and joined in on the conversation there... so come, talk to us. tell us what's on your mind. you don't have to agree with what we write, but start a conversation, will ya? because if the first time we've heard from you is an email saying you would like to have your blog considered... eh, kind of a turn off. at least for me that, is. i'm just one of the pollsters after all... so you're lucky it's not all up to me.
happy blogging!
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another attempt at vlogging! more rambling. while i'm writing this, is there a technology that exists where you can search through videos and link to what is mentioned? just wondering as i mention Fistful of Talent and the most recent HR Carnival in the middle, and at the end i reference Dean and Deluca.
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on Fistful of Talent, the other bloggy i write for, we'll be soon unveiling the second go-round of our talent management blog power rankings... and i'm happy to be shepherding the rating of blogs through the process this go-round! wooo! just some thoughts about my personal process of ranking blogs:
rankings should be unveiled next week. the cards will fall however they'll fall (is that the saying?) but regardless, i've gotta say that there are some talented bloggers/writers in the talent management space - and i'm happy to be part of that community. the time and energy they devote to blogging is totally inspiring - so thanks to all for being there for me. you make me want to do more and do better.
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the other week, on Fistful of Talent, i wrote about how culture impacts one's communication style. specifically, we were discussing pay negotiations and my take was that as HR pros, we should be cognizant of the fact that not all candidates can and will negotiate. the conversation that followed the post in the comments section was great. receiving feedback from readers is something i enjoy - in particular though, getting people talking about intercultural comms was awesome. something that i wanted to repost here was in response to a comment Kris Dunn from the HR Capitalist wrote. KD commented,
"How many times did you
negotiate today? I just counted and came up with four. And if I didn't
do it, I would have been tire-tracked and ended up with poor results. That's a learned skill over time. Like you and I talked about
recently, I came from VERY private parents - you didn't ask others for
things, you made do with what you had. That's my family, and it gave me
some great qualities to be successful with in life."
KD made an excellent point to which i responded that something i came to the realization to about four years ago was that if i was raised culturally to be one way but in the business world, that way didn't jive, or that in order to be successful i might have to act another way... it wasn't necessarily compromising myself to act the "other" way, different from how i was raised.
it was a bit of an internal struggle coming to that realization because i thought 1) perhaps i was being fake if i acted differently (asked for more, upped my negotiation and selling skills, boasted and shared proudly of my accomplishments, etc...) and 2) i wondered was part of the problem that the "western" ideal for "leadership" and corresponding traits or competencies for success were one sided. were people disrespectful and discounting that some people may come from other cultures and that there are different ways to accomplish the same goals?
i definitely have been able to find a balance and put to rest that struggle. i've accepted that who i may have to be in the workplace and during the day in order to be successful might be just a role, and they just might be rules to the game i play during the day because i've chosen to partake in that particular game... but it doesn't compromise who i was raised to be, and i can be my true self when i get home and in my personal life. i'm okay with this now but it wasn't always comfortable and it took some sage wisdom from a mentor as well for me to get to this place.
this kinda came up last night as it relates to my personal life. people who meet me professionally first see me as one way and expect me to be that all the time... but the truth is, i don't always need to be alpha-female, i don't always want to be in control. i would rather just get in the back seat and let someone else drive. if i trust you, if i want to try to build something with you, i will let my guard down and i'll allow myself to be vulnerable. but how do i let people know that me during the day turns off when i get home? does that make sense? that's not just something you come out and say, is it? i just raise this because i've met fellers who worried that personally, we might struggle with one another because we're both too headstrong, too driven, too assertive, too controlling.
just some additional thoughts on this matter...
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can i just say that i was kinda irritated when reading this?
so... NotchUp debuted earlier in the year and they threw up a blog to compliment the site in september. as i wrote over on Fistful of Talent, i was a little leery with the entire concept of NotchUp, but i was willing to give it a shot. i haven't tinkered around in there very much to be totally honest... (has anyone? just curious...) but i'm inclined not to simply to spite them. i'm that immature. yes. this particular blog entry was just too much as they discussed the five things a recruiter will never tell you:
1. "You're one of 200 people I'm cold calling."
2. "You're being interviewed to make my other candidates look better."
3. "I get measured by how quickly I fill a job opening."
4. "I'm using your confidential resume to market my firm to new companies."
5. "Last month I was selling subprime mortgages."
i mean i've never been the biggest fan of 3rd party recruiters, and i'm always open about that... but this whole list was silly. clearly their blog is geared towards job seekers, and clearly it isn't written by someone from the recruiting industry... way to alienate those who are actually going to pay to use the site, yeah?
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