In Search of the Purple Squirrel (and NFL Championships)

If you have worked in talent acquisition and recruiting in the last decade, you have certainly come across the term “purple squirrel.”  For those not

Stay Interviews? Should They Stay or Should They Go?

“…Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…” -Joni Mitchell (Big Yellow Taxi) It seems like “stay

What’s On Your List?

It has been just about 15 years since I consciously decided that I wanted to make the field of Human Resources my chosen career. Now

Are you a BE-ER or a DOER?

I am guessing that most of us are all familiar with the terms “be-ers” vs. “doers.” For those that are not, think about people that

What Do You Hear…Yanny or Laurel?

A few months ago, the world was briefly consumed on both social media and within global pop culture with listening to an audio recording of

2018 SHRM Annual Conference – HR Public Policy Overview

One of the first sessions that I added to my 2018 SHRM Annual Conference schedule was “Tsunami or Wave: The Washington Outlook for HR Public