There is an old adage that the meaning of your communications is the response that it receives. It’s part of neuro-linguistic programming.

It may well be true that, as previously stated, early-to-bed people do better in their careers, but the late sleepers have the ultimate smack-down; along with vegetarians, night owls are just plain smarter than the early risers. The late nights prove it.
A psychology researcher at the LSE, called Satoshi Kanazawa, recently cited research that underpins [...]

The Dunning-Krueger effect creates a feedback loop that is annoying and irritating. It’s like being in a sensory deprivation tank because you can never really be sure if you are suffering from the syndrome yourself.
Now comes a even-more-annoying study that suggests that people think they suffer from the Dunning-Krueger effect, and other cognitive biases, less [...]

Salary surveys are an excellent method of establishing a baseline for your internal salary increases. But there is a severe limitation with these studies; they do not include external hires.
This is normally a deliberate choice because the salaries of external hires would contaminate the findings significantly, and force figures upwards. So HR has a strong [...]

I am a little late with this, for obvious reasons, but the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey for Q2 2010 is out. You can download the MEOS Press Release (meos-q2-2010-press-release), the full MEOS or just take a quick peek at the summary chart below.
Hiring sentiment is on the up but you sense there is not much [...]

The economy in China, and the hiring market, appears to be in a situation where we over the worst, but not yet in a rapid expansion phase. The decline in China exports is slowing and the local market has taken up some of the slack from the lost exports.

So there must be little for HR to worry about yet.

All around the world the worst of the recent recession seems to be over and assuming Americans and Europeans begin to consume like they did before, demand should feed into China’s export economy at some point in the future. The current, inchoate rise in hiring numbers in China, and the probable fall in retention, should [...]

After a year long massacre of the recruitment industry in China, it is good to come back after the summer holidays and see the little green shoots that we saw earlier in the year grow into something more. Not necessarily a lot more, but just more.

A bored Chinese shopkeeper studies Irish and moves to Ireland to speak to us in our ‘native’ language !???? I have to see this …

At a recent TED Conference, a lady by the name of introduced the idea of the Sixth Sense. This is not just a fuzzy notion, but a wearable interface that reads gestures, and pulls information from the world around us.