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Yahoo Puts New Spin on the Recruiting Process

Today Yahoo! released what it refers to as the first performance-based online recruitment product, Yahoo! HotJobs Pay Per Candidate. The new HotJobs feature lets recruiters pay for candidates instead of just per listing. The idea is that this will help recruiters tie their dollars directly to their results. The recruitment community will get its first look at the product at the upcoming Society for Human Resource Management conference starting June 28 in New Orleans.

Fired On Facebook

People are fired in all kinds of rude ways, but they typically don’t make the news. Get fired via Facebook, though, and the world goes “huh?” Crystal Bell, fortunately, wasn’t humiliated via any public communication; her boss sent notice via private message. According to the Calgary Herald, Bell, who’d been employed at a spa only two weeks, skipped a staff meeting on a day she wasn’t scheduled to work.

Study: Sex At Work Makes Work Better

Don't let those stiffs from HR tell you office romances are bad for business. No, you just point them right to this Sun article that says as long as you're not sued for harassment (I'm talking to you, creepy, who's going to follow this advice right into a cardboard box and a security escort), sex with coworkers actually results in raised energy levels, better professional capacity, and higher productivity.

Study: Pajamas More Comfortable Than Ties

A new study about telecommuting echoes an old adage: Misery loves company. While the option of working from home makes employees happier and often more productive, it may have the opposite affect on those still stuck at the office.

Judging An Employee By Her Search Results

I'm hesitant to bring this up because it puts me at risk of being dropped into the Pollyanna Pond – business and idealism just don't mix, I'm told. But I wonder if employers are missing out on some exceptional talent because of snap judgments and preconceived notions about job candidates.

Where has the Human in HR Gone?

Human Resource Management as a profession is in danger of becoming not just an irrelevance to day-to-day line managers but a break on the productivity and profitability of organisations.

HR Surveys: A Glimpse into your Employee's Minds

There was one movie where a teacher gave all of her students an initial grade of A. When asked why she did that, she said that it is harder to maintain this high grade rather than starting from scratch and earning it.

Trends In Human Resources

The role of the Human Resources Department has changed dramatically over the past 30 years and will become increasingly more strategic in nature in the future, said a leading light of the HR community in the recent 2006 Annual Conference and Exposition of HR practitioners in Washington, DC.

The Historical Background of Human Resource Management

Human resource management has changed in name various times throughout history.

Careers In Human Resources

Human Resources is a career that involves inviting the most competent personnel and pairing them with the employment for which they are best suited.