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Conversations with Black Talent Professionals: Ifeyinwa Walker, CEO of Offor, New Orleans
Meet Ifeyinwa (Ify) Walker, CEO of national talent brokering firm Offor, and diversity trailblazer in executive recruitment. I began following Ify on LinkedIn a few years ago, where she shares…
Don’t Put People in a Box: Customization in the COVID RTW Context.
Social media and greater access to information has created consumers who are empowered and expect to shape their own experiences. As a result, companies having to adapt to customize their…
Talking HR Reporting with Shana Lebowitz Gaynor of Business Insider (The HR Famous Podcast)
In episode 22 of The HR Famous Podcast, long-time HR leaders (and friends) Tim Sackett and Kris Dunn are joined by Shana Lebowitz Gaynor to discuss her work at Business Insider and specifically her articles about SHRM’s handling of…
Media Fasting Might Be a Good Idea Right Now
It’s getting harder and harder to get any kind of useful information from the “professionals” responsible for informing the public about things that matter. As a matter of fact, I would go so far…
How Resilience At Work Will Save You And Your Team
We all need a little “saving” right now. But what if we changed our mindsets from being saved to being the person who saves? I’m not implying that we must…
Candidate Email Automation Disasters: Thanks, But No Thanks
Know what makes our industry look bad? Most candidate email automation, but especially saying “thanks, but no thanks” as an automatic reply to a job. We know candidates are putting it all…
Facts of (Work) Life: “Manager Pass-Through”
I wrote about the manager pass-through in 2011. It’s an important fact of life in every organization, so I’m writing about it again today
3 Ways to Change the Message in a Bottle
Just a castaway, an island lost at sea, oh Another lonely day, no one here but me, oh More loneliness than any man could bear Rescue me before I fall…
Do You Really Need College-Educated Workers?
FOT Note: This post comes straight out of the FOT vault. Every now and then, we like to re-run golden nuggets of insight to keep the message alive
Why Now Is The Best Time for a Rebrand
Around mid-May, about six weeks into the pandemic, sports teams found themselves bored. My Dallas sports teams in particular