Jun 29, 2011
No doubt, the organizers of the Society of Human Resources [SHRM] 63rd Annual Conference will tell you that their shindigs take a lot of advance planning. One assumes that includes their choice of venue, this year in Las Vegas.
Unable to substantiate my suspicions that the decision to congregate in the Mecca of smoke and mirrors had something to do with “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,” I shall refrain from speculating that, if not that, perhaps some polyester PR plonker persuaded SHRM’s leadership that there is no better place to engage the dissenting voices going ga-ga for transparency than on the Vegas Strip. Where better to make a show of it!
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Jan 24, 2009
It seems the politicos at The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) have teamed up with JobTarget marketeers and are set to publish a 2009 Job Board Savings Book.
Apparently, you can use the coupons at over 1,000 niche, diversity and regional job boards that are slashing up to half the price on their job postings, all to help make the world go round. Think of it as cross between an economic stimulus package and a licked-to-go Green Shield Stamps program.
In times of economic collapse it is only natural that the industry’s leadership should bandy together and step up to the plate. Rewarding good behavior [buying postings] and facilitating commerce [direct marketing] is not a bad thing. To the contrary, it is a good thing. And programs like this are quintessentially American, aren’t they?
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Jul 10, 2006
I know it’s fashionable for bloggers in our space to be well-informed subject matter experts. On the other hand, I freely admit to being 36% not-so-clever and 38% quite-possibly-clueless. The other 26% of the blogger in me is mostly interested in debunking what the other 74% of me holds true because so much of that has been shaped by subject matter experts who are more like me than they would care to admit. So, now that you know the extent to which I am perfectly qualified to comment on the dot jobs (.jobs) debate, here is my take on the year-old top-level domain: what a load of rubbish. There, I said it.
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Jun 30, 2006
I having nothing to add to a recent post by Michael Specht: Tips for virtual conference attendance. He says it all. I just hope ERE are taking note. Onrec and LRP too.
Jun 27, 2006
As a professional body, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) does a respectable job of representing the HR community to its various constituents, and there are many. As well as providing education and networking for its members and the community-at-large, SHRM plays a political role lobbying government. SHRM also provides important research that helps us to understand and shape the future for our industry. SHRM does good things. Don’t be surprised then, if you die and go to heaven, to find a SHRM chapter there.
I know there will be a lot said, reported, written and blogged about the SHRM Annual Conference and Exposition in Washington, D.C. this week and next. No doubt, much of it will be useful, as will the actual event for those who are surviving the rain. Some of it, no doubt, will be crushingly boring and trivial. I suggest that anyone who wants to make an impact with their commentaries on SHRM, and be heard above the inevitable din, should inject a little of what we all secretly want to know about: sex and scandal.
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Jun 23, 2006
Yesterday I erroneously stated that Joel Cheesman was planning to auction his SHRM shirt(s) on eBay. This is not true. The post has been corrected to reflect what I should have said which was that that was my speculation only.
I unreservedly apologize to Joel and to anyone who took me too seriously.
Jun 22, 2006
It occurred to me that waiting for Mr. Cheesman to answer the questions posed in my recent post, Cheezhead: Mastermind or Millionaire? may be like waiting to get my money back from Messrs. Lay and Skilling. What with the impending distractions of SHRM and having to champion the cause for 25% of the Fortune 500, I realize we might be in for a long wait.
I suspect the T-shirts which Joel will be wearing at SHRM will – upon his triumphant return – be auctioned on eBay, further delaying the unfolding of the future of online recruiting.
Joel: I know that you are busy, busy, busy. I got your email. But in the overall scheme of things, do you believe that hobnobbing at SHRM is more important than enlightening us on what your vision of the future of online recruiting will look like?
If you cannot reply, I understand. I am already resigned to an absurdly long wait. Perhaps there are some pretenders out there who feel sufficiently powerful to answer in your stead.
Nah. Impossible.
