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HR Margo-Compassionate HR-HR Charity

@Ray_Ann Thorn, Executive at Broadbean, Compassionate HR Leader

HR Charity, Corporate Responsibility, and Servant Leadership. This is the core meaning of Compassionate HR. It’s so much more that a blogtalkradio show. It is a cultivated state of mind. It is the heart and soul of Human Resources.

It is the zen mind of our industry. Being present in the moment, loving humanity, and feeding the minds of those around us builds team spirit. It motivates compassionate action, steward leadership, employee motivation, and furthermore; it stimulates talent attraction and an employer’s brand.

@Ray_Anne Thorn puts a face on servant leadership. Compassionate HR applauds her community building. She is charitable, and kind, and she will be my guest on the next Compassionate HR, May 3, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. eastern standard time-4:30 p.m. pacific time. The following is a brief guest post about her “HR” charity to save families.

I ask that you click on the following links. Open your mind and heart. And give an expemplary gift to the following organizations.

Faith’s Hope: No one should be alone.

Acronym: Family Assistance In The Hospital Specializing in Helping Others Pay Expenses.

Cindy Cheffers, the mom that recently passed away:
I did some marketing work for Faith’s Hope last fall, assisting them with their social media and writing press releases and so forth. When this assignment ended, I was invited to attend a Board of Director’s meeting where I was asked to join the Board.

I am currently working to put together a new Comedy for Hope evening in August that will benefit another local family. Chapters of Faith’s Hope will be opening in Reno and Arkansas in 2010. Assistance is always needed for the many families facing foreclosures, evictions or job loss as a result of caring for a sick loved one.

Additionally, I have worked in non-profit and independent theater for almost 30 years, having served on four different boards. I currently serve on the Board of Directors for Huntington Beach Playhouse and worked/volunteered almost exclusively at STAGEStheatre for five years as the Publicity Director, I resigned from this position in December 2010. I am a member of the Lion’s Club and also drive traffic to SaveYourStuff.com – an organization that helps individuals and companies learn how to preserve art and important information/documents/papers. PTA is no stranger to me and I served a couple terms as President.

The popular 60′s band, The Beach Boys suggest that we can’t all be California Girls. Ray Anne Thorn is a “Calfornia Girl.” She is a shining example of what a recruiter can be. Thorne is a role model, and she raises the bar, sets the standard for our industry.

Daily recrutingblogs blogger, she trains recruiters to be better writers. Her commitment to writing daily, setting aside time into her busy schedule, and optimizing her posts for more web hits, sets an example for us all.

Will you please leave us a comment. Thank you very much.

Your twitter and facebook friend,

@HRMargo

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HRMargo & HireFriday

News Flash: Candidate Sourcing and Recruiting Wizard, Josh Letourneau is co-hosting #HireFriday, The Live Video Show beginning #HireFriday, May  7, 2010 from Noon to 1pm eastern standard time.   Our goal? To provide a safe place where job seekers can ask questions, receive advice, and support.

Josh Letourneau, Leader in the Recruiting and Candidate Sourcing Industry

Josh Letourneau and his fiance'

#HireFriday on twitter is about candidates.  We do not spam jobs.  We want to give job seekers visibility.  Job seekers don’t just need a pat on the back.  They appreciate an introduction to our contact networks.  The goal is to connect job seekers to recruiters and hiring managers.

Every Friday, I ask people to tweet their @name/desired job/industry/location/and a few descriptive key words about themselves.  Then, I retweet it for them, as do my followers.  Pretty soon, job seekers can receive exposure to thousands of people.  The HireFriday video chat show will go one step further.  We will entertain questions for an entire hour.

Job seekers will benefit from receiving critical and timely advice that will advance their search, and accelerate their re-employment.  They’ll still enjoy the visibility they’ll receive on twitter, only now there’ll be a video of recording available to the viewing public.  Since Josh and I are extremely well connected in the recruiting, outplacement and human resources arenas, we’ll be able to give access job seekers access to people in a position to interview and hire them.

So, let’s have a round of applause for #HireFriday.  Join our page on facebook, tweet for us on twitter, and watch our show. We will post a link for you soon.  Now, a penny for your thoughts?  Please comment, let me know what you think.

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HR Margo Compassionate HR

This post by Meghan M. Biro, founder of Talent Culture is a transformational leader in the recruiting, and brand development community. Biro’s research in organization development and change has revolutionized the way recruiters will do business in the future. Read this insightful post, and ask yourself, “How important is culture consideration before making your next hire?” Continue reading and find out.

Meghan M. Biro Founder of TalentCulture.com

Is Emotional Intelligence the bridge between Personality and Culture fit?

Personality and how it relates to culture fit with an employer is a central theme in how I think about recruiting and helping people find rewarding career options. It also extends to social communities, something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. We choose communities in which we are comfortable, where our personalities and cultural beliefs are heard, respected, and celebrated.

There is an added dimension to determining how personality, community and culture work together to create ‘fit’ between an employer and a careerist: emotion, specifically the notion of emotional intelligence.

I’ve been re-reading Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence for insight into how emotions can help us find a good culture fit – or, poorly controlled, may ruin our chances to find personality/culture fit, sometimes over the span of many jobs.

Emotion, or the apparent lack of it – which some would call logic – is part of an individual’s personal brand. In some fields, such as computer science, rational, logical behavior is a valued attribute. In deeply technical cultures, the ability to consider things logically is a requirement to assimilate and be successful. For the person possessed of a rational, cool, deliberate personality, such a culture could offer a good fit. There are, of course, exceptions to this – think Spock and Data – but in general, an engineering-driven organization will be attractive to logical, less overtly emotional people.

On the other hand, the person driven more by emotion – heart over head – might find such a culture daunting and perhaps even isolating. In the right environment, however, this person will thrive. An emotional nature thus is an equally valid component of personal brand; such an individual might be valued for his or her quick judgment, passionate beliefs and creativity. Since we are on a Star Trek analogy, Jim Kirk uses his emotional intelligence to lead, inspire and manage a range of difficult, new situations.

Heart or head, however, the key to career happiness (dare I even say life?) is personality/culture fit. Where does emotional intelligence come into the calculation? I would argue – as does Goleman – that emotion is a necessary complement to the rational, and may in fact determine how successful a person is. Only by understanding one’s emotional and rational selves – and we all have emotional and rational minds – can an individual forge a compelling and resilient personal brand.

In Margo’s interesting post on Career Anchors, she explores Edgar Schein’s model of organizational development and advocates for the need to match candidates to appropriate cultures. I will take her advice a bit further. When working with candidates to develop a personal brand – one part emotional intelligence, one part personality, one part skills/attributes – I recommend to my clients starting on a process of personal discovery, aided by tools (personality inventories, soul seeking, walks on the beach, whatever it takes) counsel (maybe a career coach if it feels right) and market research (finding the right type of employer/workplace culture). See a list of activities you can undertake in your own quest for personality/culture fit here. (editors note: scholarly OD Cultural fit articles are linked- What follows is an interview with Daniel Goleman, conducted by the Harvard School of Business. Meghan’s post follows beyond the video) editor’s note concludes.

I recommend that you make room in the quest to discover personality/culture fit for social community if this makes you happy. Seek one out, build one yourself, and participate. It is in the company of others that we learn most about ourselves. That’s why the TalentCulture.com community is as broad and deep as it can be. We are creating a social community that is a metaphor for the workplace, focused on building a culture of innovation, awareness, creativity and understanding – one in which CEOs and entrepreneurs can learn about the most current workplace strategies, a place of resources that engage people, where leadership and discovery pull participants in to learn about the forces that affect 21st century companies and virtual social friends.

Our social community is a resource for individuals building a personal brand, managers who want to know what makes their people tick, where social entrepreneurs can develop ideas and viable channels for good, venture capitalists looking for the pulse of innovation, What else? It’s likely I do not need or want to know all the answers. Perhaps the sky is the limit. We are all on a quest for personality/culture fit. Sign me up please.

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google hip hop rap HRMargo Speaks

Google.com rap, bing.com rap : smack that sassy webcrawler up and down the bizay. Google in da hizay-Bing in da shizizay, knockin on da door of my super sized buisneszay.

Hip Hop can make a point in a way that scholarly discourse pales zzzzzz.

HRMargo, lover of irony asks pointed questions that make you think. Critical thinking is the benchmark of clarity of thought and making sound, logical decisions. Why is it I have 580 fans on my facebook page, but only 10 on my networked blogs page? Please help me by clicking on the box to the right of this page. I must admit, TruUsa continues to motivate me.

Marie Journey remarked last night, “HRMargo is a Social Media Machine.” Thanks to Ray_Anne’s inspiration, I am now blogging daily,” thanks to #TruUsa’s. I have Bill Boorman and Geoff Web to thank for that.

My criticism of the facebook blog system is that it is extremely difficult to authenticate one’s blog. That is why I started 2 fan pages, one to encourage job seekers, and one for #HireFriday, a twitter stream movement I launched in March.

The sole goal is to help our friends, and family members get hired. We feature job seekers and retweet their name/title/industry/location/descriptive key words into the twitter stream with the hashtag #HireFriday. I want to launch this movement on facebook, because the population of people on facebook is exponentially higher than twitter.

Consider the following data. According to facebook:

• There are more than 400 million active users-this number increases daily
• 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
• Average user has 130 friends
• People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook

Interesting statistics to consider.  Are they statistically valid?  I’ve always said #1 is not a statistically valid sample.  With that said, I contemplate emerging data, and watch for trends that support reported data. I always ask myself, how valid is this?

Yesterday was the first day I authenticated my facebook network blog. I set my horizons higher by doing my best to tickle the webcrawlers. I hope and pray my readers will click the share this button and click on stumble upon, google, yahoo, and social bookmarking sites.

Please support this site. Why? Because my site is about HR Charity, HR Pros, and Recruiters who work tirelessly to make our industry a better place to be, and to acknowledge servant leaders who practice corporate responsibility, and Compassionate HR.

In the final analysis, it’s not what you take from this world that matters. It’s what you give that really counts.  This site is not aboutHRMargo, it’s about helping, engaging, and coaching job seekers, and compassionate leaders.

Your twitter pal,

@HRMargo Rose

today’s stupid trending topics #handupif #pleasetellmewhy #android #Iphone #gizmoeditor should we care? #seo

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Is perception more important than reality? Google thinks so.  Today Jennifer McClure wrote about how google listed her as the best recruiting expert in the world.   I wondered, “Does Bing agree?”  Yes, it does.

Just for fun, I want to test the hypothesis.  HRMargo is the best HR expert on twitter. Google says HRMargo is the best career development expert in the world. If google and bing lists me on the first page where a job seeker, or potential client seeks an HR or Career Development expert, it tests the null hypothesis.  @CincyRecruiter inspires me because arguably she is a leading executive coach, and recruiter in the US.  She put area code 513 on the hrhappyhour map.

To further test this hypothesis I will list the top ten recruiting experts, and HR experts in the world :

1. The best recruiter in the world is Steve Levy, founder of 1,000 recruiters of light, he’s innovative, and masterful in recruitment
2. Gerry Crispin is the best recruiting consultant in the world, he is the most sought after speaker in the industry
3. Josh LeTourneau is the best competitive intelligence expert in the world, and is a global leader in the recruiting industry
4. Marie Journey is the best sourcer in the world, and is the champion of video SEO-yesterday she tweeted “HRMargo is a social media machine (so of course I love her).
5. Geoff Web is the best researcher in the world and holds an Advanced AIRS certification
6. Eric Jaquith is the best talent management expert in the world, and is a thought leader in recruitment and candidate sourcing
7. Meghan M. Biro is the best culture expert in the world, founder of Talent Culture, her recruitment knowledge is unsurpassed
8. Charee Klimek is the best HR culture expert in the world, and generously volunteers her time with job angels
9. Bill Boorman is the best recruiting expert in Europe, founder of the Tru Unconference movement, is a leader in blogtalkradio
10. Paul Paris is the best ex-recruiter in the world, his recruiterreqs website, and blogtalkradio show helps job seekers, and hiring managers around the world

Karla Porter, Janice Worthington, and the resume chicks (as Paul Paris calls them) can all be found on twitter, and are always willing to extend a helping hand.  Is this post a subjective self-report assessment?  Of course it is.  Each of the people mentioned above have had an impact on the way I view my industry.  As a former outplacement expert HRMargo, goes to great lengths to serve, empower, and bolster the spirits of job seekers in transition.  (that was another google tickle).

According to blogging experts Marie Journey and Ray Anne Thorne, inserting a video also bolsters search engine optimization.  So, this blog is HRMargo’s experiment in google & bing search engine optimization.  I am the may not be leading seo expert in the US, but I am an excellent project manager, and I know who to hire, and how to recruit them on my team.

Be sure to check out Jeff Lipschultz, Craig Fisher and A-List Solutions.  Mike Ramer is another great recruiter.   Shennee Rutt is the recruiting industries best kept secret.  That is about to change, because Shennee Rutt is the best volunteer in the world.

You are a champion of the world.  You care enough to read my post filled with gratuitous plugs for the people I admire.  You matter to me.  You are important, and just in case no one has told you, “I care about you,” let me be the first.  Because after all, that is what HRMargo and Compassionate HR on blogtalkradio is all about.

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