The HR Gazette has exclusively caught up with Greg Pantelic, Co-Founder at WIRL (http://www.wirl.ca) one of the sponsors at SocialHRCamp Toronto 2014, to get his insights on the upcoming event. Greg is the Co-Founder of WIRL, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company that empowers employees and their organizations through continuous feedback. He is a strategist, mentor and […]
Achievers Customer Experience Event a Big Success
This week, Acheivers hosted 400 HR professionals at the Achievers Customer Experience event in fabulous Toronto. Bringing together customers, industry analysts and thought leaders The two-day HR Technology conference offered awesome speakers and best practices on the future of Employee Success and how organizations can recruit, retain and inspire their people. The HR Gazette team was in […]
Top HR Content Profiles: Talent Culture
Meghan Biro is the Queen of HR! For the team at The HR Gazette its really that straight forward. Our Editor sums it up well: “If I could only recommend one personality to follow on Twitter it would be Meghan Biro”. Meghan Biro’s company, Talent Culture, publishes frequent and frankly awesome posts on a wide range […]
Top HR Content – Profiles: Fistful of Talent
Fistful of Talent is a group blog that tackles current issues of talent management. You just gotta check this blog out! Seriously.. when you look at the traffic, influencer and and reach stats its really rather impressive! For a self-described “mature” discussion of HR issues, check out Fistful of Talent’s podcasts or download The CYA […]
Volunteering – the good and bad
Whether your work experience is rich or minimal, there are many advantages, and some disadvantages, of volunteering if you are searching for a new job. This article explores both sides. PROS Learn a new skill Volunteering is a great way to learn or develop a new skill that otherwise may be difficult to obtain. Keep […]
Finding and hiring experienced employees
Some estimates indicate that Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) currently account for as much as 46 percent of the Canadian workforce. In addition, according to Statistics Canada, it is likely that one out of every four people in the labour force will be 55 years or over by 2021 (see http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-010-x/2011008/part-partie3-eng.htm). With an aging […]
Trending on Twitter: Human Resources
What Organizations Need Now From Human Resources(Forbes) The job of Human Resources today is to make people and organizations grow, yet it has only marginally evolved since its inception around the end of the nineteenth century. Starting as “Personnel,” to protect women and girls in industrial environments, … Administration announces new Human Resources leadership(vtdigger.org) A new […]
“Workplace Violence” in a Globalized World
This is the second in a series of segments which together comprise a larger paper presented at the Ninth World Conference on Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion, Merida, Mexico, focusing on workplace violence from a “global” perspective. In its entirety, this paper examines the contributing factors of workplace abuse which plague both developed and developing nations. Research in “Workplace Violence” is in its infancy. In some […]
Lowest US unemployment rate since October 2008
Despite lower than expected hires in weather-hit December, the overall level of unemployment in the US has fallen to its lowest since Fall 2008.
Jack Hobson: How important is social media in the recruitment industry?
Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are expanding at unparalleled rates, therefore it becomes ever more imperative for employers to keep up. Those that have been slow to adapt their recruitment system to encompass the social media surge are in danger of losing the best candidates to their more forward thinking rivals. Mobile […]