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- Mobile Webinar for HR & Recruiting Approved for Strategic HRCI Credit
- Mommy Guilt & It’s Place in the Workplace
- Integrity, Intelligence, and Energy: Qualities to Hire For
Posted: 29 Aug 2011 07:59 AM PDT  I’m pretty stoked to report that my upcoming webinar, “Mobile the Next Big Thing in HR & Recruiting” has just been approved for 1 HRCI Strategic credit. Yes, you read correctly, the webinar has been approved for a strategic HRCI credit. Our webinar focuses on mobile technologies for human resources, HR, recruiting, and employee engagement in the workplace. The webinar is at no cost to you and is scheduled for September 15th at 11:00 AM CST. You can learn more about the webinar below, and register here.Learn all about Mobile and how it is being used in Human Resources, Recruitment, Employee Engagement. Our session leaders will discuss mobile basics and success stories from this new and emerging industry. Learn the secrets to effectively using mobile, texting, and QR Codes in addition to your social media and engagement campaigns. Our panelists include:
You may remember that earlier this year we hosted a webinar “How to Connect with HR with Social Media” targeted human resources and talent service providers. The feedback was fantastic, and we decided to take it up a notch which is why we’ve put together our mobile technology webinar. Consider registering or read more about our topic and panels. Photo Credit Business-Wissen.  |
Posted: 29 Aug 2011 05:01 AM PDT  As moms who return to work after our child is born, we often dream of the carefree life of a stay at home mom. Little do we know that the life of a stay at home mom is not all sunshine and roses. We live each day fighting a battle with our own selves.As a mom who is experienced in her career long before I became a mom, I was not fully prepared for the feelings, thoughts, and emotions I would have when I returned to work. I love working. I have an important job that I love and people who depend and rely on me. Just like being a mom, this is a job I have trained for, dreamed about, and worked towards my whole life. Without it, I don't somehow feel whole. I wouldn't be me. I often feel guilty when I travel for work or even dropping her off at daycare which I do four days a week. This phenomenon called mommy guilt is something that is often experienced throughout a child’s life. Leaving my daughter as I head to the airport, there is a hole in my heart. I love her, and I know she loves me. The adrenaline sets in as I work navigating the conference calls, emails, faxes, direct messages, and texts I get when I'm working with a client or traveling to a conference or an event. I'm an expert who's important and needed for more than the standard diaper changing, bandaid kissing, and magic momminess I possess. One day not too long ago I realized that I could not be one without the other. I'm a mom who loves to work and is better at both being a mother and working because I'm both. These roles and responsibilities define me driving my creativity and time management. We can do both, and I'm not apologizing for it any longer to myself or to others. By accepting the reality, I believe I've become a better mom and business woman. I'm learning to love and live with being a mom and professional setting aside my guilt and embracing what makes me special. It’s a balance that finding and maintaining is not going to be easy, but I’m ready, willing, and able to be up for the challenge. It’s okay to want to have it all. Because of my daughter, I feel I’m a more focused business partner who makes time for work as well as play. As parents, mentors, leaders, and bosses, we need to be prepared and understanding as our employees, friends, and peers face these daily struggles. The guilt, the anxiety, and the questions are real. And that’s okay. I’m a better mother and business professional because I’m not perfect. I’m not ashamed to admit it. Are you? How do you tackle your mommy guilt? Does it work and will it really ever go away? Photo Credit A Nice Change.  |
Posted: 29 Aug 2011 04:33 AM PDT  Several years ago, I was hired at a technology start-up as the Manager of Recruitment. The company had no internal hiring process in place other than listing a job on Craigslist and conducting an interview or two. I was hired to create and establish a recruiting department that could hire 110 people within the eleven coming months. It was ambitious, to say the least. Especially given that there was no real capital behind the organization — this, I didn’t know until several months in.I discovered the lack of available funds when the phone company came out to collect money, in person – or they were going to shut off services to our growing and phone-needy company. This was the can of worms, the snowball, Pandora’s box…, the cat trying to get out of the proverbial bag. I was hired by a CEO that professed ethics at every corner, that insisted ethics training was a must, that haunted our halls with biblical quotes and acts of goodness. His ruse was sadly, but thankfully discovered before too many others were hurt or lost too much more money. I look back on this experience with appreciation, for I learned to question and not just take things at face-value, I also learned to listen to and then follow my gut. I have often thought about the hiring the I did, the fifty-four souls I lured into taking positions as grandiose as a VP of Finance and as modest as an admin assistant or as complicated as an organic chemist and as simple as a lab assistant hired to clean up spills and watch the time. I can remember wishing that I could hire a new CEO, one to replace the shyster inhabiting the corner office – the one who didn’t pay our state income taxes but certainly deducted them from our pay. A practice that was not discovered until several employees were laid off but unable to collect unemployment because the state had no record of them paying those taxes. A successful and visionary CEO requires not only ability to manage and motivate, but also intelligence and experience in business and its ways, and a clear-cut character – one that has the courage to do what is right, to uphold ethical and judicial laws. Should these desirable characteristics be a trade-off in order to hire someone with hard-core business competence? Should character-less leaders be tolerated because they can supposedly lead an organization to financial success? Interestingly enough, this same CEO, a leader to whom at one point I looked up, also sat me down during a frustrating hire, “Rayanne, I want us to hire for character – I can teach anyone a skill – you cannot teach character.” Apparently, in his case, you can’t learn it either. And while this particular CEO proved the point by his own actions, he also proved the statement. Hire for character. Warren Buffet has hired his share of employees and has done very well for himself. He stated, “In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.” Great advice, I think I’ll take it.  Rayanne Thorn, @ray_anne is the Marketing Director for the online recruiting software company, Broadbean Technology. She is also a proud mother of four residing in Laguna Beach, California, and a contributor for Blogging4Jobs. Connect with her on LinkedIn. |
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