This is a reprint of an article I wrote for the Edenspiekermann Blog back in 2016. Big data is kind of a big deal right now in the world of HR. With more and more HR processes being handled digitally, there’s much more data. And the temptation to find statistically relevant correlations between this data … Continue reading Big Data in HR
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This is a reprint of an article I wrote for the Edenspiekermann Blog back in 2016. Last week saw the 10th anniversary of re:publica in Berlin. From 2-4 May, over 8000 visitors and 770 speakers from around the world descended on Station Berlin, just a stone’s throw from the Edenspiekermann office, all with one interest: … Continue reading re:publica TEN: What We Learned
This is a reprint of an article I wrote for the Edenspiekermann Blog back in 2017. Developing people is one of the most important tasks in any HR department: making sure people know what’s expected of them, helping them to identify areas of improvement, and making sure they receive praise for the awesomeness they deliver. … Continue reading People & Talent: Mentoring & Feedback
HR-organisations are usually pretty proud of their recruitment process; or processes, if they have individual ones for each position. But in many companies, gut feeling still rules. Or even worse: Prejudice. Defined and adhered-to recruitment processes do serve a purpose. Teams get an overview of the pipeline, they can run analytics, and in the end … Continue reading The end of the Rectruitment Process
I have used my first medienrot-column of the year to not look back at 2018 but instead to look ahead and make some (bold) predictions of what could be the topics that will dominate the "HR scene". As usually it's written in German but links to some english language articles. So it's definitely worth scrolling … Continue reading When HR people take a glimpse into the future…
Employees' average tenure in even the hot companies like Facebook, Google, Apple is hardly more than two years. And these are the companies that top nearly every ranking. Many companies and their consultants try to extend this tenure by offering the most absurd "perks" or benefits, by building career trajectories - basically by coming up … Continue reading Retention Is Dead
If you work in HR you know the game: Titles. With every raise, with every new hire, with every achievement, there comes the debate what goes under the name in LinkedIn, Xing, and recently Twitter. And whats written there is becoming more and more useless and empty on the one hand because epople will be … Continue reading The Title Game
The industry we're working in is called HR - Human Resources. Of all the resources an organization uses and needs, we are taking care of the human ones. Not the coal, not the ink, not the diggers, not the airplanes, but the humans. And while this is definitely a commonplace it is worth remembering from … Continue reading Remember The Human In HR
Vor Kurzem teilte jemand auf Twitter eine Liste mit über 1.000 Slack-Communitys an seine 4.700 meist im HR-Bereich tätigen Follower. Viele Kollegen im Recruiting-Business würden das als Goldmine bezeichnen, denn in diesen Communitys finden sich Millionen Menschen (lies: Kandidaten, Provisionen) fein säuberlich sortiert nach Branchen, Tätigkeiten, Ländern, manchmal sogar nach sexueller Orientierung und Geschlecht. Und während der Teil von mir, der … Continue reading The Right To Be Left Alone By Recruiters