Your HR Career

Four strategies for becoming more influential at work

09/30/2015

Whether it’s within your HR team or the overall organization, building influence—making it easy for others to listen to your ideas and try your suggestions—will make you more effective. Try these influence strategies.

6 skills HR leaders must establish, cultivate

09/29/2015

Success in a top HR spot these days requires establishing a track record in these areas, according to a new study by Aon Hewitt.

The HR certification wars: HRCI vs. SHRM

09/24/2015

For nearly four decades, the HR Certification Institute served happily as the semi-independent certification arm of HR’s big-dog association, the Society for Human Resource Management. That long marriage ended acrimoniously last year when SHRM announced it was launching its own certification exam and credentials—the SHRM Certified Professional and SHRM Senior Certified Professional.

LinkedIn users: Educated, older and relatively wealthy

09/08/2015

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a Pew Research Center survey found that the career-oriented social media platform skews older than such rivals as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter. But age isn’t all that marks LinkedIn as a different kind of online territory.

Empty your email inbox every day: 4 tips

08/26/2015

Rajeev Goel, CEO of California software firm PubMatic, has trained himself to empty his email inbox by the end of every workday. Here’s how he does it.

The HR I.Q. Test: September ’15

08/26/2015

Here’s your monthly quiz on HR trends and issues.

SHRM survey: If you’re an HR generalist, you’re in demand

08/18/2015

Human resource generalists are the most sought-after HR professionals, with 55% of respondents to a new Society for Human Resource Management survey who are hiring HR talent saying they were hiring for the position.

The HR I.Q. Test: August ’15

07/31/2015

Here’s your monthly quiz on HR trends and issues.

Study: CEOs are leaning more heavily on HR

07/29/2015

In this complex job market with a growing talent gap, executives are leaning more on HR leaders these days for innovative business strategies, according to a new CareerBuilder survey.

Pulled in different directions? Here’s how to set your HR priorities

07/20/2015

Establishing yourself as a key member of the strategic team requires you to make tough HR decisions and defend them to executives. That’s easier to do after you systematically set priorities for your HR department. Use these seven guidelines to help separate real priorities from perfunctory tasks.