The Future of Social Media

I gave a keynote yesterday at the Australasian Talent Conference on Social Media on the future of social media. The audience was composed of about 250 corporate recruiters, corporate communication  and corporate marketing professionals from all over Australia. My main...

Getting More Value from Your Social Media

Platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and a variety of proprietary platforms are becoming core to successful recruiting, learning, relationship building, and marketing. However, most organizations are operating without an overarching strategy that defines how...

Getting More Value From Your Social Media

Platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and a variety of proprietary platforms are becoming core to successful recruiting, learning, relationship building, and marketing. However, most organizations are operating without an overarching strategy that defines how...

New Work- Jobs for the 21st Century

Technology in its broadest sense, along with discovery, are the drivers of new work and jobs. Each new discovery, every new software tool or programming language, every new product creates new jobs and requires new skills. As people began to unearth bones as they...

Why Your Recruiting Strategy Matters

Most recruiters complain that they cannot find the top talent or the talent they really need. Despite efforts to build databases and talent pools, they still struggle. In some case, lesser qualified people apply, but not the ones they identify as best. In other cases,...

Work/Life Balance and Labor Day

Labor Day in the U.S. is almost here. Many other countries also celebrate a labor day, which has always seemed an unusual event to me. We didn’t celebrate such a day at all until Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City. Interestingly, this is a date that...