I heard two news pieces recently that made me think about the nature of work and compensation. (At the end of this posting, please do NOT mess with the clocks in your office.)

First, a research piece in Psychological Science by Aaron Sackett ran an experiment to see if one could reverse the adage, “Time flies when you’re having fun” into people believing they were having fun, if time truly felt like it was flying. And guess what? It worked. Professor Sackett ran a series of experiments where the same task was administered, where each participant was told that ...

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This article seems to have received more views than I would have thought, so reposting it here...  Happy Holidays to everyone!

The journal Organization Science published a paper earlier this year entitled, "Unpacking Prior Experience: How Career History Affects Job Performance". I'm still digesting the paper, but it's an interesting analysis of a shared basic assumption among most hiring managers and recruiters:

Assumption: Candidates who are high performers at one company at a specific job (prior related experience) will be high performers at a different company. As an IF/THEN statement: IF you have extensive prior experience (and ...

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I've been spending a lot of time lately on teaching folks how to create HR-related return on investment documents, and this topic always comes up.

Cost of Vacancy is pretty cool statistic if anyone you present it to people who will buy into its premise. But usually, business leaders see a cost of vacancy that they would not believe. It doesn't line up with their (deep) knowledge of the business.

The deck I've made here is meant to be a starting point in developing a believable cost of vacancy.  Let me know what you think!

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I'll pause for a moment on the subject line to allow anyone reading this with an IO background to finish their list of 20 reasons why this is wrong. And... done.

OK,  TweetPsych analyzes someone's tweets using two different linguistic techniques to arrive at your Twittering habits. Do you talk about the past more than the future? Do you talk more about jobs and employment? TweetPsych will tell you.

I have zero desire to wax philosophical on the dangers of using this for candidate selection. I'm currently treating this as a fun tool to play with and ...

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A couple of weeks ago Gerry Crispin posted an entry about Hans Rosling and Ted and his now famous bubble chart that animates itself. As charts go, it's pretty fun to watch. So I asked myself this weekend if I could try the chart out on some recruiting metrics just to see how it would look.

Much to the chagrin of my kids on a sunny summer day, I tested two different kinds of animated bubble charts.  The first from a software company, and then the Google Bubble chart tool.

Turns out that creating an animated bubble chart using ...

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