May 18, 2010
In reply to John Sullivan’s recent come-to-Jesus diatribe, Five Ugly Numbers That You Can’t Ignore – It’s Time to Calculate Hiring Failures on ERE.net, John Sumser now asks on HR Examiner: “Why not give the whole problem over to the training folks?”
For starters, I’m not sure changing scapegoats addresses the underlying problem. There really is very little difference between abdicating responsibility to trainers for recruiting excellence — or whatever standard we used to aspire to — to expecting “recruiters” to stop buckling under the weight of a hiring manager’s passed buck.
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May 11, 2010
Recruitopian Footnotes [May 11, 2010]
- Token blacks, Hispanic women and cross-dressing vicars hardly make the case for diversity in the workplace, not in the Supreme Court of the United States anyway. I think the appointment of a an every-man or two would suffice, provided they are Calvinists of course.
- I always wondered who the real Kris Dunn was. Will the real Kris Dunn please stand up? Thank you!
- Laurie Ruettimann thinks about power and influence on a “regular basis” seemingly unaware of the nasty side affects of over-exposure to testosterone. [For the uninitiated, power is to the right, influence is to the left. Yeah, I'm an elitist jerk too]
