Job Shadow dot Com

I was recently contacted by Aaron Stahl, the owner of Jobshadow.com.

Jobshadow.com helps young people searching for career and job information by interviewing people who actually do those jobs vs. the standard and often inaccurate information that is typically available on the internet for young people who are career hunting.  

In essence the site allows readers to ‘shadow’ jobs online.  

Aaron has been getting great feedback from people who love the information provided in the interviews.  They are grateful and truly inspired by the information shared. They've interviewed everyone from U.S. Ambassadors and Senators, to Accountants, to people who climb and install cell phone towers, and countless jobs in between.  

It's a great site that's now even better since you can shadow a real, live Human Resource Director. You can peruse the complete list of interviews here.

Hmmm, I am thinking about brewmaster if this HR gig ever dries up!

HR, Cherry Blossoms, and {Airquote} Technology

Technology is at the forefront of HR agendas today.

 In the Hackett Group 2012 survey, The HR Agenda: HR's Top Issues in 2012, 60% of companies surveyed indicated that many HR organizations are failing to leverage their technology and data and that HR needs to deploy and use technologies to better enable service delivery and improve the quality of information and insights to support decision making.

Technology has not been at the forefront of my agenda, but that is changing. My goal for 2012 is to become conversant in the "happenings" in the field and the relationship between technology and the delivery of federal HR services.

It may seem odd, or very appropriate, for an HR leader whose battle cry is "ban the No. 2" to step into the federal HR Tech ring at the national level, but that's just what I am about to do as a moderator (and a guest of LRP Publications) for the session, "Accessible Technology Solutions to Current HR Challenges."

Washington D.C. in April? If I had a bucket list, cherry blossoms would be on it. Will the forces of nature align and greet me with a peak bloom?

I do know that the forces of HR, technology and learning will align on the panel. Let me introduce you to our panel members: 

• Steve Boese, Director, Talent Management Strategy at Oracle will discuss the current state of HR technology and trends we can expect to see in the future.

• K. Scott Derrick, Founder and Advisor, 13L, will introduce you to a low cost low tech and highly effective mentoring program and put to rest the notion that  mentoring takes a lot of time. 

• Lori Rectanus, Assistant Director for Staff Development and Growth at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) will take you behind the scenes of a campus recruitment program.
  

Our commitment as a panel is that attendees will leave our session thinking differently about HR and technology than they did when they walked in. 

With our commitment in mind, what questions would I be remiss in not posing to the panel? If you were listening in, what would you want to hear the panel members discuss, react or respond to?  

Will this be the beginning and the end of the conversation? Absolutely not. Just another stop along the way.