http://www.spencer4hiring.com/blog Spencer Speaks Human Resources & Recruiting Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:06:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are constantly bombarded with the threat of strangers stealing our identity and yet do we ever consider what personal information is available to our co-workers? I just read where Cyber-Ark Software conducted a survey which revealed that one in three  IT employees admitted to peeking at the personal information of other ... http://www.spencer4hiring.com/blog/snooping-practices-what-is-your-company-doing-to-protect-your-personal-information/ Founding president for the Center for Work-Life Policy,  Sylvia Ann Hewlett, has a new book called “Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success.” In it she writes that while 37 percent of qualified women “off-ramp” or opt out of their career at some point, generally to raise ... http://www.spencer4hiring.com/blog/off-ramps-and-on-ramps-on-the-road-to-success-2/ I was laughing. Okay, maybe not laughing, but definitely chuckling when I read recently that Bersin & Associates, a talent management consultancy firm, conducted a survey of 750 business and 55 senior HR executives and found that “more than half admitted to a critical shortage of line managers as well as ... http://www.spencer4hiring.com/blog/shortage-of-management-talent/ Founding president for the Center for Work-Life Policy,  Sylvia Ann Hewlett, has a new book called “Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success.”  In it she writes that while 37 percent of qualified women “off-ramp” or opt out of their career at some point, generally to ... http://www.spencer4hiring.com/blog/off-ramps-and-on-ramps-on-the-road-to-success/ I recently read that Careerbuilder.com found in its annual survey that 20 percent of the 7,000 respondents plan to be in contact with their place of employment during their vacation. Now while this is down from last year’s high of 27 percent, it still seems ridiculous to me that so many people ... http://www.spencer4hiring.com/blog/on-vacation-sort-of/ Want to take off work one afternoon and go fishing or to the movies? Don’t feel like getting up at 6a to make the commute to the office? ROWE or Results-Only Work Environment is a performance-based, results-focused culture whereby the organization focuses on productivity, retention and the bottom line by allowing employees ... http://www.spencer4hiring.com/blog/rowe-your-boat-to-a-better-workplace/ Are you drowning in a sea of emails? Do you have meetings to discuss prior meetings? Is “teamwork” your mantra? Unfortunately, over-communication – sometimes referred to as the “chaotic noise” -- has become a very real problem for many workers. According to participants in an on-line survey, the average manager said ... http://www.spencer4hiring.com/blog/over-communication-the-chaotic-noise/ Summer is on us once again. And along with the warm weather comes a flurry of young workers seeking to make a few extras dollars during their break. So when a recent California reader asked about hiring minors for summer work, I thought it might be a good idea to remind ... http://www.spencer4hiring.com/blog/hiring-minors-for-summer-work/ According to a new book out by Jennifer Deal, Retiring the Generation Gap: How Employees Young and Old Can Find Common Ground, after seven years of research the idea that there is an on-going conflict between generations at work – boomers, Xers, Yers – is poppycock. Apparently what it comes down ... http://www.spencer4hiring.com/blog/multi-generational-conflict-fact-of-fiction/ A recent article in Workforce Magazine painted a rather bleak picture of our future workforce by stating that today’s high school graduates lack the qualities and skills that employers seek in new hires. However, based on the report “Are they Really Ready to Work?”, the lack of talent is not just ... http://www.spencer4hiring.com/blog/today%e2%80%99s-programs-for-tomorrow%e2%80%99s-employees/