The HR Technologist

I’ll admit it, the HR Technology market can be downright confusing.  The messaging coming from nearly every vendor sounds very similar, making it very difficult to determine which vendor does what and more importantly how they differentiate from one another.  Nearly every vendor offers capabilities that are marketed as “Talent Management” or “Analytics”, ranging from [...]

As a recruiter or hiring manager how do you know whether the candidate you’re considering for your opening is genuine?  Have they embellished their background a bit?  Have they shielded you from their true personality or engaged in some other form of innocent (or not so innocent) deception in order to get the job?  Anyone [...]

After the events of the last few weeks I had an opportunity to reflect on the process of onboarding new employees.  Having gone through a similar process at our local hospital recently I was shocked at how smooth the process went from collection of/sharing information, speed, completeness, etc and started thinking how HR can learn something [...]

Earlier this week I was engaged in a discussion on twitter with a few individuals debating the value of all the acronyms in the HR Technology space and what it all really means.   HRIS, HCM, ERP, ATS, CRM, BI, EDW, TA, TAS, TM, TMS, LMS, et al.  Those of you who know me know [...]