How Disruptive is your HR Team?
I was lucky enough to attend the latest DisruptHR event last night, hosted by Arthur Cox in their fabulous Dublin offices. For those of you who are unfamiliar with DisruptHR, it is “an information exchange [...]
Is your hiring process HOT or NOT?
You’ve advertised a role and have been inundated with applications, great! Surely, you’ll get strong candidates and can pick and choose who you want…right? In an interview process, often we find that it can be [...]
HR Manager & HR Business Partner – What’s the difference?
HR typically started as a business function by having its roots in administration, filing, personnel and compliance. HR is an ever evolving value add area of a company, and presently has more impact than ever [...]
7 Ways To Foster Your Emotional Intelligence
According to Emotional Intelligence (EI) expert and author Harvey Deutschendorf, “the realization that E.I. has become an important predictor of job success, even surpassing technical ability, has been growing over the past number of years". [...]
What’s your mindset?
Recently I attended a really thought provoking event hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce which was on the topic of the role of Life Long Learning & Business Growth. The speakers on the day [...]
HR Professionals "pining" for Part-Time
Lately I advertised a role for a part-time HR Business Partner and was inundated with applications from highly qualified, highly credible, highly personable and highly paid HR professionals. The choice of people applying for this [...]
Leadership & Gender – Navigating the Labyrinth
This morning I attended a really interesting talk by Dr Melrona Kirrane on the invitation of Hannah Carney (Carney & Associates) and Mount Anville Past Pupil’s Association (MAPPA) MAPPA’s 2016 Network breakfast was on the [...]
Be values focused, profits and wins will follow!
Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending DCU’s Leadership and Talent Institute Conference on the subject of “Leadership for a Sustainable World” The content of the day was insightful and provided great food for thought. [...]
9 mistakes commonly made by people who are hiring!
Often lack of understanding and clarity around vision and values of the business – recruitment process not aligned Lack of planning into recruitment process and time-frame Poorly written job specification and advertisements Poor internal [...]