by Caroline | Mar 11, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Recruiting
It’s SXSW. The most brilliant minds in tech from all over the world will converge on Austin and this is where you can pick off the next Sergey Brin or Jony Ive and take your idea global. So what do you do? You throw a huge party with really expensive alcohol, of...
by Caroline | Feb 25, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Management, People Evaluation, Recruiting
People put it different ways: If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room. A players hire A players and B players hire C players. Hire people who know more than you and get out of their way. The point is, the rule of thumb when it comes to...
by Caroline | Dec 10, 2014 | Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, Management, Recruiting
Taking a look at the escalating premium amounts for health insurance plans, a lot of employers got a bright idea: “I don’t want to mess with group insurance anymore, it’s a pain. I think I’ll just give my employees a stipend and let them go into the marketplace and...
by Caroline | Dec 3, 2014 | Hiring, HRCompliance, Management, Recruiting
In the brouhaha about four people suing LinkedIn for allegedly violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act, people seem to be lining up either on the side of the plaintiffs–that LinkedIn has to be more careful of members’ privacy–or on the side of LinkedIn,...
by Caroline | Nov 19, 2014 | Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, Management, Recruiting, teamwork, Training
It’s that time of year when companies are self-nominating and some winning “Best Places to Work.” I was once in charge of a company HR department where the CEO wanted my job that month to include cajoling employees into filling out surveys in order to get recognition...
by Caroline | Nov 5, 2014 | Hiring, People Evaluation, Recruiting
There is one flaw I see most commonly among people interviewing candidates for a job: They don’t interview, they talk! They spend so much time talking at the candidate that by the end of the interview they’ve actually learned very little about him. The whole point of...
