Archive for July, 2005

HR/Employment Blogosphere update for August 1, 2005

Sunday, July 31st, 2005

This week, I’m coming up a bit short of what I’d like to have for this feature. I can’t keep up with all the fine writing going on in this corner of the blogosphere. As regular readers will recall, I recently participated as one of the rotating weekly editors of the Blawg Review, a blog [...]

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Bloggers disadvantaged in the hiring process?

Sunday, July 31st, 2005

We’ve previously covered many blogger-termination stories.Now we’ve run across an interesting and very controversial opinion about how blogging may harm one’s future employment prospects, as well as a couple of more fired-blogger stories to add to the opus.Start here: “Bloggers Need Not Apply,” by Ivan Tribble in Chronicle Careers, a feature of the online [...]

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Another Class Certification: New York State and Promotion Testing

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Update to this posting: I located an NPR interview about the case; if you are interested, you can listen to the interview here.According to this press release, a lawsuit apparently targeting New York State’s promotion practices was just recently granted class certification. The lawsuit will potentially impact tens of thousands of African American and [...]

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Quittin’ Time: How You Know When It is Time to Get a New Job

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

Partially because my wife just changed jobs, and partly because I think people sometimes stay too long in the same job, this posting offers some good ways to know when you should move on to another job.Here are some of the factors the author suggests means you need a new job:You have a lot on [...]

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HR as black sheep of dysfunctional corporate family

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

Monday, Michael posted on Fast Company magazine’s article “Why We Hate HR.” Some talented HR visionaries in the blogosphere are so ticked off and weary of the subject they don’t even want to talk about this article. See Regina Miller’s comment to Michael’s post, her brief blog post, and Diane Pfadenhauer’s comment [...]

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