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Archive for November, 2005

2005: The Year of the Recruitment Revolution?

Google Base has the potential to change the landscape of recruitment by letting users post or upload anything, tag it with information like job title, make it accessible to the world…at no cost!


All (On)Board: Four Big “No Nos” of “OnBoarding” (aka: New Employee Orientation Program)

An excellent article on the onboarding experience, with examples of how such programs go wrong and therefore increase turnover.


Applebees’ Reduces Turnover Using Metrics, Accountability, and Rewards

Applebees’ has a system for reducing turnover, focusing on metrics, accountability, and rewarding managers.


When this Blawg’s Michael Harris Speaks, Reporters as Well as Students Listen

He’d never do it himself, so I thought I’d quickly blow Michael’s horn. Lately, it seemed like everywhere I looked he was being quoted.
But he’s not this guy.
Michael quoted by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:


Did EEOC “Overlawyer” the Dial Corp. Employment Testing Case?

We’re always pleased when the popular Overlawyered blog links to us. Frankly, in the past those links have provided our biggest readership bounces.
So we were happy that Overlawyered picked up the story of the Dial Corp. case involving gender discrimination in strength testing, linking to our post “Dial To Pay $3M for Strength Test [...]