The objective isn't to manufacture activity so you can tell an interviewer about it. The objective is to remind yourself that your professional value didn't disappear when your employment ended.
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Reorganizations, AI-driven role redesign, and rapid shifts in working and operating models all put enormous strain on the informal systems that hold culture together.
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None of this means shared services disappears as a concept as the transactional backbone still has to run flawlessly. But the function's center of gravity has moved.
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Artificial Intelligence and machine learning are are already impacting our personal lives whether we consciously choose to allow them, or not.
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3 months into my job search and I was starting to consider that I might not have any chance to get back into the type of work I’d done so successfully many years ago. It knocked my confidence.
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…beyond providing safe and pleasant work conditions and fair payment for work done, the employer should have no further involvement with the private lives of their employees.
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Too often there is a limited pool of qualified, high performance HR professionals available in the job market.
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It's so ho-hum when you tell me that the company is committed to professional development, diversity, work/life balance
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Please don't oversell your experience. I can spot B.S. a mile off, and I will rate you more for your honesty if you haven't done everything we need.
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Poor handling of redundancies and layoffs are classic examples of how HR can instantly be labelled as unfeeling, “two faced”, disrespectful and callous.
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Ensuring engaged employees is not a fluffy HR concept, nor a passing trend, nor an intangible or immeasurable business theory.
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....despite everyone’s claims of commercial savvy, we still see 2 very different camps of HR job seekers.
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Every HR person tells us that they're strong for relationship building, business alignment and partnering, change & project management, etc.
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“if you could find us a tall, slim, blonde woman for some office eye candy that’d be great”.
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If you are a private person, you may not want family photos in the background.It’s also worth checking the lighting and I know this might sound vain.
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Consumer appetites and buying practices change. Government legislation changes. And with little warning, work practices have just changed.
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We've lost count of the number of conversations with Business and HR executives about their need to staff up their TA functions after a period of downsizing. When we ask “why don’t you just hire back past TA team members?” we are told “no, they weren’t that good anyway”.
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…a deluge of cutesy posts on social media, and invites flying about to join social chat rooms - all from folks whom we wouldn’t usually hear from in the day whilst they’re busy in their company offices…
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