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- Let’s Organize the HR Bloggers
- Join Us at Social Siesta in Austin During SXSW
- Happiness: Does Your Career Define Who You Are?
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Posted: 02 Feb 2012 01:27 PM PST
 The blogging industry is a fun, exciting, and fickle thing. Technorati Tells us in their July 2011 State of the Blogosphere Report there are reported to be 164 million bloggers. The Human Capital Management blogosphere is just a small drop in that 164 million blogger pan, but that doesn’t make us less important. In fact, I think we are extremely important because much of what we do is misunderstood by senior leaders as well as employees. These folks have a lot to learn about what it is exactly that we (HR and recruiters) do. There’s also a lot of mystery, spam, and secrecy surrounding how to make money and get paid blogging. Add the misinformation of HR coupled with the mystery of blogging, and it makes things quite the challenge. Over the last 6 months, I’ve had quite a few emails from fellow bloggers in the industry where I hang my hat. Some of them are new and some of them are seasoned looking for information, insights, and advice into pricing when approached by advertisers, sponsors, or when traveling to an event as a member of the press. While I’m no expert, I have been doing this for a while and I’m happy to help wherever I can. I’ve also been transparent about my pricing since I started offering sponsorships and advertising on Blogging4Jobs. And even still I receive no less than 30 guest post requests and spammy link exchanges a week. We (HR Bloggers) have a huge opportunity as influencers and content distributors in our marketplace. I also want to make sure that we get compensated appropriately for our hard work and efforts because blogging isn’t easy. We are our own online publication and content distribution business whether as a hobby or full time. I’ve often talked about how mommy bloggers cheapen the blogging marketplace and I think it’s time we think about organizing our own HR niche. I’m not saying we organize ourselves out of the market. I think it’s time for HR bloggers to ban together to be open about pricing norms, helping, strategies, and to set a standard level of expectation while we’re still early in the game. I am thankful for the opportunity to do what it is I do every single day. But I believe that together we can help create some consistency, control, and level of expectation and learning with other bloggers as well as those vendors that provide service to the HCM practitioner population. Am I wrong? Am I crazy? I move that we discuss organizing the HR Blogger. Photo Credit. |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2012 08:06 AM PST
The past three years I have hosted a networking event for HR, Recruiters, human capital management folks, and interesting people I wanted to connect with at the interactive media conference SXSW. This year (2012) we decided to do something a little different. Instead of hosting an evening event with loud music and little opportunity to talk among the group, we are hosting an lunchish event called “Social Siesta.”
The location is yet to be announced but this event is VIP only meaning that you should suck up big time. That means tweeting us directly, leaving comments here on the blog and sending us raving fan mail. So if you are in Austin March 10, 2012 sign up for our Social Siesta event during SXSW. Meet amazing technology folks, human capital management professionals, and nurse that hangover. Don’t worry because the bloody mary’s and light lunch are on us . . .  **Disclaimer: We are not affiliated in any way with SXSW.  |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2012 06:01 AM PST
learn to love it...
When someone asks if you like your job, how do you reply? Are you eager to speak of what fills your days or do you dread responding? Work life easily spills over into rest of life. We take hits to our work very personally. Being with family members or friends in the evening or on the weekend can be tainted if a deal goes sour or money at the office is tight or work is slow. We tend to take it home with us. Even my dogs suffer from my bad days. I sometimes work in independent or community theater as a director and/or actor, and I even used to manage publicity/marketing for small or non-profit theaters. When I have the opportunity to direct a show, I love sharing all kinds of knowledge and tips with the cast that I am leading. Invariably, one or two actors during the course of pre-production will have to utter a line they hate. They simply despise the words they are saying and it shows – it bleeds out of their performance. They cannot seem to get the right emphasis or understand the driving motivation behind the words they are struggling to memorize. I have a standard answer for each of my actors who face this difficulty. “You hate it? Learn to love it.”
The same can be said for certain tasks that are less than enjoyable to you or the different duties that are part of your job description. You don’t like doing business development? Is it a necessary function of your job? Will your company/firm be successful without it? Learn to love it. You don’t like making follow-up calls? Are they necessary to fill a position or complete a task? Learn to love it. You don’t like conducting professional reference interviews? Does the hiring manager require it? Learn to love it.
We are faced daily with difficulties and difficult people.
The when and what are inevitable. The how is what matters.
I am usually received with a quizzical look if they have not worked with me before. “You have to love the line, if your delivery is to work.” You see, the problem is…, if you don’t learn to love it, it will never be right, it will never be comfortable, and it will never make sense. Learn to love 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 daily contributor for Blogging4Jobs. Connect with her on LinkedIn.  |
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