DriveThruHR
HR friends, have you listened to Drive Thru HR on blogtalk radio recently? It’s a 30-minute show, Monday-through-Fridaym 1:00 p.m. Central time. Each day, hosts Brian Wempen and William Tincup chat with a different HR practitioner. For example, this week already they’ve interviewed Michael Long of Rackspace and Jason Lauristen of Talent Anarchy.
I listened to the Michael Long show today at work. This evening, I listened again while cleaning my kitchen and scrawling notes. And now I’m tuning in for a third time as I write this post; the discussion is that rich. The hosts and Michael start by discussing how we share organizational culture with applicants. They then touch on the greater candidate experience, as well as exploring social networking options, building content to communicate culture, managing employee social media contributions, keeping candidates accountable, using analytics to fine-tune a career page, the issue of transparency and ‘keeping it real’, creative recruitment efforts by Rackspace such as tweet-ups, technologies Rackspace uses for recruitment and talent management, recruiters’ responsibility for retention, education as an engagement tool, strengths-based talent management, Rackspace’s recruiting approach (‘be yourself, as opposed to ‘let me stump you’)…and then after all that, they circle back to the candidate experience again. All that content in less than 30 minutes? Amazing.
I especially appreciated the nuggets Michael shared about their use of analytics. Rackspace found that any culture-related content (such as employee blog posts) increased candidate engagement, decreased bounce rate, increased time on the site and increased number of page views. Culture fit is the holy grail, Michael says, because it helps you decrease costs by getting the right people in the door.
Although I’ve focused on one daily show, the other editions I’ve heard have proved similarly valuable. I’m blown away by the quality, depth and transparency of DriveThruHR’s content. A different HR thought leader showcased each workday of the year? For free?! All I have to do is log into my iGoogle? This is priceless. I’m convinced a daily dose of Drive Thru HR is a perfect complement for my SPHR studies.
And if you’re reading this blog, you’re probably already familiar with another great Blogtalk Radio HR show, the Thursday night HR Happy Hour hosted by HR technology guru Steve Boese and the “HR Minion” Shauna Moerke. If you haven’t heard it yet, check that out also.
So, those are two awesome, free, easily accessible internet resources for HR practitioners. Do you have any resources you’d like to share?
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