Talent Function

by Elaine Orler
Last week, one of my friends was sharing their frustrating chronicle of applying for a job at a local retail establishment. As you can imagine, all of my friends come to me with such tales. My wonderful friend has a Master’s degree and 37 years of work experience. She is a retired principal [...]

Webinar
This week I had the honor and privilege of delivering a webinar for SHRM focusing on how to ‘recruit like the big guys’ for small to mid-size companies. You’re welcome to download the presentation here, or if you are a SHRM member, register and listen to the audio recording anytime. With over 600 attendees on [...]

It’s been two weeks since I finished the Corpus Operis conference in a small town called, Casekow, which is a 90-minute train ride east from Berlin.  The first inaugural conference was a consideration of the best future for a global workforce. The conference included a colorful array of academics, government development professionals, practitioners, and consultants [...]

by Mark McMillan
This week at Corpus Operis in Casekow, Germany, I had the pleasure of meeting Mark Harrison, the CEO of Abraham&Harrison (“A&H”). A&H is a global social media marketing and public relations company [see the framed video below for a pleasurable description of what they do]. The company has a [...]

by Elaine Orler
I’ve focused my 15 year career on and around recruiting technology.  I was around when the first scanners were brought in house.The scanners took up an entire desk and you were excited to scan one resume at a time and hopeful the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) would work well enough to at least [...]

by Elaine Orler
Week before last I had the honor and pleasure of heading east to participate in the Workscape Analyst Summit. The day was filled with insight and knowledge sharing about the organizational and product direction. Workscape (www.workscape.com)  has built a strong foundation and continue to carve out their business direction to enable their customers [...]

by Mark McMillan
This past weekend I met with a client that is going through a career transition. He updated me on his latest interview with a well-known sports apparel company.

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My mind thinks and spells the word “clarity” this way. It makes more sense to think of it spelled this way.

By Elaine Orler |
I was running a few errands with my 15 yr old son this week, and while in the middle of a retail store, debating over purple or green post it notes, my son asks me. “Mom – when I’m old enough to work – how will I apply for a job? [...]

This is a director’s cut transcript of Elaine’s interview with Headhunter Readio’s CeCe and Joe Gonzalez.
1. You’ve launched a company focused on recruitment technology in one of the worst economic markets in history – we’re curious to know why now?
With 16 years of experience and a passion to see the human resources discipline valued, it [...]