Ep 97 - 3 New Emerging HR Technologies #hrtechconf - Workology

Ep 97 - 3 New Emerging HR Technologies #hrtechconf - Workology Episode 97: 3 New Emerging HR Technologies Its no secret that the HR and talent acquisition technology industry is growing. In 2016, HR departments are not just adding new technologies and systems but are anticipated to invest an additional 25% more of their time and resources. Sixty-four percent of those same businesses are planning major business initiatives concerning business improvement process with many of those happening in the HR and talent acquisition department(s). This data comes to us from the most recent HR technology systems report from Sierra-Cedar. Episode 97: 3 New Emerging HR Technologies In this special series for the Workology Podcast, I sit down with 3 HR tech founders and CEOs for 10 minute lightning interviews. Im talking with some of the most innovative and emerging technologies in our industry. Many of those Im interviewing wont be in the expo hall at the HR Technology conference in Chicago, IL, next week. You can speed date and get to know these CEOs and founders on my podcast and be exposed to some of the most amazing new HR tech that is changing our industry. Welcome to our third annual emerging HR technology podcast episode series. Meet Felicia  Moghadam of Sity (@feliciamoghadam) Felicia has a masters in Industrial Organizational Psychology and has experience in executive coaching as well as HR operations and organizational work. She started Sity because she wanted to solve some of her own challenges which was how can she share her experiences, skills, knowledge and talents with her managers and business leadership. Useful to employee and employer with a focus on employee development. Sity is a new way to share information between employer and employee by assembling and disassembling teams more easily making companies and teams more agile. For HR and business leaders, there is nothing harder than improving employee engagement, building teams and helping employees and their leaders find a way to discuss an employees professional career aspirations. Sity provides a way for innovative companies to customize a community and platform that uniquely aligns with their company values while focusing on feedback, goals, skills and performance 365 days a year instead of twice during the annual review process. Meet Eyal  Grayevsky of FirstJob (@firstjob) Eyal Grayevsky is the CEO and Founder of FirstJob. Eyals background has agency recruiting roots and about a  year ago, he and his team created one of the first bots for recruitment and hiring called Mya. Mya is an artificial intelligence bot used to engage candidates and job seekers. Mya is a machine that is designed to replace a human function but not replace or completely automate recruiting. Mya is equipped with natural language processing allowing her to understand language and with machine learning. She serves as an assistant and augments the recruiter function allowing recruiters to be more effective. Is it weird Im referring to a computer as a she? I dont think so and Im pretty excited that bots are moving into improving the efficiencies of recruiting and HR so that we, as professionals can focus more on strategy, business and results. Meet Bryan Franklin of Holometrics (@bryan_franklin) Bryan Franklin is the co-founder and CEO of Holometrics. Bryans experience is lengthy and impressive as an executive business coach to many fast growing CEOs and founders in Silicon Valley including LinkedIns Reid Hoffman. In Bryans work he started to track executive team promises to determine if and when it will actually come to fruition. Bryan says executive leaders have a short memory by the time we execute we forget the conditions to which we promised it. He has the ability and technology to predict whether the promise or business belief will occur. Founded the company to provide insight to measure alignment across metrics and those initiatives using a holograph and a 360 measurement. Discusses risk factors, executive bandwidth. Alignment is expressed in behaviors. Agreement is expressed in conversations and discussions. Strategy itself is not aligned with the brand. Strategy doesn’t line up with the momentum of the company. Becoming an alignment champion. RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Sierra-Cedar HR Technology Survey $811 Million Invested in HR Tech by VC’s in First Half of 2015 2016 HR Technology  Party Guide Do Systems Integrators Work for You? Ep 96 How to Build Better Relationships Between Practitioners and Technologies ~ Podcast HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE WORKOLOGY PODCAST Stitcher PocketCast iTunes Podcast RSS Google Play *A special thank you to my production team at Total Picture Radio.

Resume IO - Make It Professional But Leave Your Personality Behind

Resume IO - Make It Professional But Leave Your Personality BehindYour resume IO should be professional and not something that you have put together. In fact, it should be something that reflects your true personality. If you do this the first time, it will be an uphill battle.However, if you do this the second or third time you will be amazed at how easy it is to do. That is because when you first get your resume printed you probably did not have it perfected in your mind. The problem with this is that once you have done this a few times, your resume is going to look like it was designed by someone else.You need to make sure that you do not go into the job search with a checklist. In other words, if you have to ask for a raise you should know it is going to happen. You want to make your resume look professionally done so you will stand out among the others.So, when you are filling out your resume you want to make sure that you are not looking for the first thing that you see. When y ou do this you will automatically put yourself in the category of anyone who does not want to be noticed. This is a problem because you want to be noticed as much as possible and you do not want to be the last person to fill out their resume.Instead you want to focus on what the company needs and do not worry about what it looks like. You need to focus on what the other candidates want and what they need. In other words, you need to make them as impressed as possible so they can see the reason why you should be hired.The one thing that you need to keep in mind is that you do not want to make it look too professional. If you try to make it look too professional then you will look like the person that does not have the slightest clue what they are doing. You want to make it look professional but not necessarily too professional.Also, when you are writing your resume you do not want to create a resume that is professional yet has your personality imprinted on it. You need to make sure that you have a mix of both. This is important because it gives you more chances to stand out from the others.As you can see you do not want to just come in and do a job for a resume. You also need to remember that you do not have to make it perfect every time.

I Resolve To...Manage Expectations of Myself and Others

I Resolve To...Manage Expectations of Myself and Others I Resolve To...Manage Expectations of Myself and Others Have you at any point had one of those occasions when you just couldn't appear to complete anything, regardless of your best intentions? Unless you're a superhuman with immaculate activity and a failure to be diverted by adorable cate recordings, you presumably comprehend what we're talking about. Whether its the bunch of stir accumulating around your work area, a large group of little issues that appear to pull you away from bigger undertakings, or essentially an absence of a decent evenings rest that leaves you incapable to center, we've all had minutes in the working environment where we feel not exactly happy with our achievements. Without a doubt, we can sit and thump ourselves for not punching out that report sufficiently quick or for not understanding that additional receipt conveyed for the afternoon, however rehashed investigations show that scrutinizing ourselves, as well as other people, for saw disappointments can regularly be counterproductive. Don't misunderstand us, now and again there will be a rotten one in the workforce who ends up being sluggish or uncoachable, yet most of us essentially need a little assistance in prioritization. This is the reason genuine pioneers should set out to oversee desires, both of themselves, as well as other people, so as to improve execution as opposed to just requesting more or harder work. Sound incomprehensible? We should delve into a couple of straightforward approaches to roll out huge improvements with this methodology. Assess the Current Situation Regardless of whether it's a solitary venture or a whole framework or method of directing business before objectives can be set or cutoff times set up pioneers need to assess the present condition of affairs. What are your fundamental agony focuses or issue territories in your industry and explicit spot of business? What are short, medium, and long haul extends that should be cultivated? At long last, what are your current staffing capacities both in number and talent? Evaluating each of these with a basic eye is a critical initial step to attempt before you can proceed onward to arranging and usage. Set up Realistic Goals Regardless of whether it's yourself or your representatives, on the off chance that you are hazy on what can sensibly be practiced in a given time period, it will be about difficult to set clear, reasonable timelines. Can you truly reveal that systemwide programming redesign in a quarter of a year? Maybe there's a task that different organizations could achieve in half a month however with your current staffing levels, it will take a group more than twofold the time. so, be straightforward with your appraisal of the circumstance and don't be hesitant to request additional assets, extra time, or to push back through and through if an objective simply isn't possible. Not exclusively will this spare you face with the executives and your group, yet you'll likewise be less inclined to debilitate your own endeavors because of sentiments of disappointment or sadness from attempting to meet a ridiculous endgame. Desires for Self With regards to overseeing desires, administration begins at the top. Be a guide to your group by distinguishing, setting up, and afterward following up on clear objectives for your own performance. While these don't generally should be discussed straightforwardly to those you work with, do accept the open door to specify during standard registration or group meetings. This will help keep you responsible and will likewise motion toward others that you pay attention to guarantees with regards to your work execution. Desires for Your Team Showing others how its done is extraordinary and all, yet on the off chance that you aren't clear in imparting your desires to the individuals who answer to you, it'll be hard to attempt to present a culture of accountability. Many directors get hung up with regards to being hesitant to solicit a lot from their colleagues. This can make supporting in your ways and disarray with regards to what should complete and by whom. To maintain a strategic distance from these hiccups, sit your group down and build up clear conventions and methods for requesting help and taking bearing. When appointing an individual venture, be clear about the last due date and any nuanced direction you may need to conveyance or roll out. Lastly, if a cutoff time is dropped or not exactly the ideal item is turned in, make certain to question your individual colleagues concerning what went wrong. This can have a major effect in removing poor entertainers from the individuals who basically need extra direction and can likewise distinguish defects in your own capacity to plainly impart desires. Desires for Your Company While the individual machine gear-pieces are the everyday entertainers, the organization you answer to likewise needs to satisfy its guarantees all together for the individual workers to be powerful in their roles. If you are being approached to execute an arrangement that is basically unfeasible with your current staffing levels or assets, make certain to make some noise. Requesting the instruments and bolster you have to carry out your responsibility won't be viewed as impolite or requesting however rather will show that you are a pioneer who needs to complete things and isn't reluctant to shout out when important so as to execute a dream. It is anything but a One Time Fix While the above fundamental rules are an extraordinary spot to begin to build up a strategy for overseeing desires, it's imperative to realize these means are certainly not a one time practice. Each new activity, venture, or significant deals objective will require some rendition of the abovementioned, even in a curtailed group. It's likewise helpful to plan standard registration both for yourself and your group to guarantee that there hasn't been any material change in presumptions that may require a move in expectations. Remember that responsibility is a key ability for any extraordinary pioneer and that execution of this quality goes both all over the company pecking order. Keep great housekeeping of your capacity to oversee desires for self as well as other people and you'll be well en route to getting progressively cultivated and to feeling less overpowered simultaneously.

Does your resume include your contact information

Does your resume include your contact information Silly question? Not really.You would probably be very surprised by the number of individuals who do not include their contact information in their resume. Reasons include everything from simple negligence to afear of sharing personal information. Regardless of the reason, it should beobvious that without your contact information you are wasting your time sendingout your resume. Our Web 2.0 era is one ofdisclosure and afear of sharing information will more likely be construed as misleading or deceptive.The same impression will result from those choosing to usenicknames rather than their given name. A resume is a professional document used to sell yourself. If it does not containthe necessary information to contact thesender or if the information is not perceived to begenuine, factual or true it will be discarded. The nameyou would use to sign a legal document is the name that should appearon your resume. Your address and a phone number that will most likely be answered by you rather than yourthree-year-old are imperative, as isyour email address.If youremail address isskibunny@hotmail.com or hockeyfanatic@gmail.com,create a new one! A professional email address and consistent use of your proper name should be prevalent throughout yourcontact informationas it is in the followingexamples: Name: Barbara J. Mackie Email:barbaramackie@rogers.com Website:www.barbarajmackie.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/barbaramackie Name: Martin P. Buckland Email: martin@aneliteresume.com Website: www.aneliteresume.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mbuckland Does your resume include your contact information?