I've clearly lost my mind. A little over a year after starting the HR Capitalist and making the rainman-like pledge to post every business day, I've decided to start another blog called Fistful of Talent. If you like the style of the Capitalist but haven't heard of Fistful yet, click over and check it out.
Here's a twist to incent you. It's not just me, and it's not just HR. That's been done, and let's face it, that would be boring. Not SHRM boring, more like Ed Harris before he got a groovy part boring. No, this time I've brought in friends from the world of recruiting, HR and consulting to wax poetic about all things talent - how you get it, and how you maximize it once you've bought the groceries. It's a cool, loud group that's not really into pulling punches.
Your video invite is below (six seconds - I know enough not to waste your time), followed by the profiles of the suspects my team at Fistful. Check it out, and if you like what you see, subscribe and drop by to mix it up early and often. Don't cost nothin'....
The motley crew at Fistful of Talent:
Maren Hogan (Covering Gen Y and Recruiting) is a millennial living the dream in Omaha, Nebraska. When she's not plotting the downfall of Gen Xer's, she's doing marketing and development for an IT recruiting and outsourcing firm called HCI. When she's not at HCI, she's blogging at Big O Recruiting and becoming addicted to Twitter...
Jessica Lee (Covering Talent, HR and Recruiting) is an Employment Manager for APCO Worldwide, a global PR firm in D.C. Like most upscale HR pros, she spends half of her time on recruiting, the other half on ER, Training and OD. When she's not hammering a candidate to determine Motivational Fit, she's updating her spreadsheet to determine her lifetime "time to hire" and "cost per fill."
Paul Hebert (Covering Performance Motivation) is the brain behind Incentive Intelligence and a recognized authority on incentives and performance motivation.
Tim Tolan (Covering Executive Recruiting) is a partner at Sanford Rose Associates and specializes in Executive Search in Healthcare IT. He's a closer, and you really don't want to call him unless you're ready to bring out the bazooka to bag some big game.
Jennifer McClure (Covering Recruiting and Coaching) is a Vice President at Centennial, Inc., a Cincinnati-based recruitment and coaching firm, where she's charged with strategic recruiting efforts, executive coaching and business development for the firm. When she's not looking up values on NotchUp, she's rating human capital values by ranking the individuals on her speed dial, aka Seinfeld...
Kelly Dingee (Covering Candidate Sourcing) is a Technical Writer/Sourcing Researcher for AIRS. Prior to joining AIRS, her experience includes sourcing for Thales Communications, Inc., and internet recruitment for Acterna (now known as JDSU).
Michael Wolfe (Covering Corporate Recruiting) is a HR Manager for SourceMedical, where he spends the majority of his time recruiting.
Beth Kobermann (Covering Gen Y and Recruiting) is a Sr. HR Generalist at Honeywell.
Christine LeLacheur (Covering Branch Recruiting) is a Branch Manager for Executrade in Calgary, specializing in placements in the booming energy industry.
Michael Homula (Covering Talent and Recruiting) is the founder of Bearing Fruit Consulting, a full service talent acquisition and talent management consulting firm based in Michigan. Prior to Bearing Fruit, Homula lead the Recruiting/Talent functions at FirstMerit Bank and Quicken Loans.
Good luck to all of you. I like what I have seen so far.
Posted by: Michael Haberman, SPHR | May 20, 2008 at 07:27 AM
Kris,
Clearly a great cast in Fistful, but I wonder if you would benefit with some organizational development and learning perspectives? The blog clearly is heavily focused on Talent Acquisition with less on Talent Development. Just a thought.
I have no idea how you manage to blog so regularly -- I struggle with a once a week goal.
-Meg
Posted by: Meg Bear | May 21, 2008 at 02:11 AM