Geeks, Geezers, and Googlization Show

Wondering where emerging trends will lead our economy and labor markets in 2020? You'll want to tune in and hear from our guest today, Alan Beaulieu from ITR Economics . Why listen? His firm boasts an incredible 94.7% accuracy rate in forecasting business trends, including the 2008 Great Recession - 3 full years before it occurred.  We recorded this as talk about Tariffs, Immigration, and the 2020...

A caregiver crisis is growing at an alarming rate ... and we're not just talking about a lack of caregivers. Every day workers are forced to choose between being a good employee and being a good son, daughter, and parent. For some, it's a stress-filled, losing battle. Employees lose. Employers lose. Caregiving experts Jisella Dolan from Home Instead Senior Care and Zack Demopoulus , Raising 'Rents...

Technology, globalization, and shifting demographics are emasculating the traditional ways and means of recruitment. Are candidates instantly engaged? Did they find it easy to navigate the job listing and apply? To win the race for talent, digital marketing tools like eye-tracking and ethnographics are helping companies revolutionize the candidate experience. Alathea principal Maja Ninkovic reveal...

Listen to this podcast before using another pre-employment testing! Are pre-hire tests just junk marketing or based on predictive science? In this special episode of Geeks, Geezers, and Googlization, podcast host Ira S Wolfe switches roles with Jonathan Denn, Vistage Chair and author of Drumbeat Business Productivity Playbook, to chat about the myths, facts, and science surrounding pre-employment...

Humor Engineer is not an oxymoron. It's a new role every worker should master, according to the first Humor Engineer and Humor That Works author Andrew (Drew) Tarvin. With 83% of Americans stressed at work and 70% disengaged, humor at work is a necessity, not a nice-to-have. Humor improves our productivity. It helps us get better results. It connects us with people. It might save you from losing y...

The recruitment process is a terrible experience for most job candidates beginning with job descriptions. Ongig co-founder Rob Kelly has a better idea. Imagine posting your next job listing using video, images, company reviews, chatbots, and even maps to engage more candidates and dramatically increase apply rates. Tune in and find out how to transform the boring, unreadable, gender biased job des...

Is your organization struggling with people problems? Then don't miss this episode of Geeks Geezers and Googlization . For 25 years, Human Resources has been fighting for respect, for the proverbial seat at the table. But management still views HR as the compliance cops, payroll administrators, and the department to avoid. Why? HR Strategist Ed Krow joined us for this podcast to discuss why HR con...

Jeff Gothelf, author of "Sense and Respond," shared his favorite stat - Amazon releases new software updates every 11.6 seconds - during this episode of Geeks Geezers and Googlization. Amazon and companies like Netflix set the new consumer standard for service. Human Resources (HR), however, responds with an industrial age approach, built for a completely different time and pace of operations. To...

Are you a "technology refugee? HR evangelist Enrique Rubio stopped by this week's Geeks Geezers Googlization show to chat about his article "Do humans have room in the future of work?" We wasted no time diving into a conversation about the future of HR, how we must bring HR up to speed, and how technology is racing forward faster than we can keep up. Enrique shared his vision for Hacking HR: to bu...

People analytics is consistently one of the top 2 trends in HR today (the other being candidate experience), but despite the fact that more than 70% of CEOs identify human capital as a key source of competitive advantage (IBM), only 5% invest in big data (TATA). And while 70% of companies intend to increase automation, only one-third use People Analytics to determine the impact on performance outc...

First of all, before I jump into this week's Geeks Geezers and Googlization podcast about the evolution of L&D (learning and development), who would ever think that content creation would be associated with Human Resources? For the record ...when I'm talking about content, I'm not talking traditional HR paperwork!  But just as a recruiter is now a marketer , human resources and microleanring go to...

Workplace Violence: Is it something that social media and news outlets have normalized within our culture? Current statistics state that over the course of a year, an average of 15 people will lose their lives because of workplace violence, and a staggering 38,500 employees will be attacked from perpetrators while on the job. Yet, while this problem continues to ravage the workforce, 70% of U.S. b...

David Searns, Haley Marketing CEO, stopped by Geeks Geezers and Googlization this week to discuss the staffing industry's post-Indeedageddon era. (For those of you who don't know, effective 1/7/19 Indeed no longer allows staffing firms and recruiters to post jobs for free.) Indeed is just the tip of a growing challenge staffing and businesses face when it comes to attracting job seekers and qualif...

According to our guest Venkat Janaparaddy, CEO of Jobiak, over 80% of jobs are not getting indexed by Google. That's a huge problem because 73% of job seekers start their job search on Google! That's why Venkat came up with an AI-machine learning solution that helps companies get their jobs indexed by Google without adding complicated code (job schema) and then getting those job listings ranked hi...

Job Descriptions are the most unlikely topic for a fun but informative podcast. And yet, our guest today, Karen Young, CEO of HR Resolutions , managed to turn the dull, dreaded job description into a lively conversation. Listen to Karen share why the job description is the hub of talent management, not a legal document only taken out of the drawer only when it's time to post jobs and terminate emp...

Is working with a 3rd party recruiter worth it? If yes, when is the right time to hire a recruiter and what are reasonable expectations? As more and more companies turn to search firms, or "headhunters," executive recruiters during this historic period of low employment, we took the opportunity to ask those questions and many more to our show guest Hugh Gallagher from The Gallagher Group. We go be...

Job hunting used to be so easy. Send a resume. Fill out an application. Schedule an interview. Get hired. Today, it's become a lot more complicated. Both job seekers and employers seem to be like 2 ships passing in the night. That's why we're excited to welcome Courtney Kirschbaum  CEO of Job Hunt School , to the Geeks, Geezers, and Googlization Show. Courtney takes us behind the scenes of her job...

Founded in 2011, Talent Board wanted to shed light on companies that were attempting to improve the candidate experience. About 3 ½ years ago, our guest on today's show, Kevin Grossman, was approached with the offer to run and scale the program. Working with hundreds of employers around the world, Talent Board is a not for profit institution that works to continue educating employers on how to ele...

Our guest today is Danny Iny, author of Leveraged Learning and CEO of the online business education company, Mirasee . With his works followed by over 100,000 experts and professionals, Keith and I were excited to have him on the show. In the context of education, a core part of Danny's belief is that the college degree is a "generic magic ticket to the successful life, costs too much and delivers...

Today, Keith and I are happy to have Eric Meyer on the show discussing social media as it applies to at-will employment and HR. A partner in the employment group at FisherBroyles LLP,  Eric Meyer is a volunteer EEOC mediator, a paid private mediator, and publisher of "The Handbook." https://www.theemployerhandbook.com/ We start off the conversation with this simple and relatable question - "How ha...

With 300 million people worldwide suffering from depression and with depression and anxiety disorders costing over 1 trillion dollars each year, I thought a discussion with Dave Quinn of Being Well 365 would be of great value to our listeners. Excited to have him on the show, Keith and I discuss with Dave some of the startling statistics when it comes to employee disengagement related to stress an...

Today we're talking with Phil Strazzulla, CEO and Founder of the recruitment marketing company, Next Wave Hire, and creator of the YouTube series "Whiteboard Wednesdays" . Firstly, if you haven't watched Whiteboard Wednesdays, you should. Whiteboard Wednesdays  started as a New Year's Resolution and became a hit for viewers with over 252,475 watches. Stemming from conversations that Phil has had w...

Today, we're talking with a man who was pronounced dead at birth, diagnosed as retarded by his guidance counselor, and never spoke a word until he was 6 years old. Additionally, he had a documentary made about him in in 2007 called "Music Within". Our guest this week, Richard Pimentel, has overcome tremendous odds and Keith and I are honored to have him on our show. A disability rights advocate an...

Is AI something that could be utilized in the recruitment process without eliminating the need for the human element in HR? This week, Keith and I cover this topic during a great conversation with our guest, Robby Gulri, CMO of Engage Talent , an AI-assisted recruitment support company. With the recruitment process going through a technology metamorphosis, AI has found its place in the echelon of...

This week's podcast features our guest Janine Woodworth, Director of Strategic Services at Jobvite. Janine, Keith, and I had a fast-paced conversation about the current state of talent acquisition, why corporations are failing at it, and how to ensure that you don't. With unemployment rates at their lowest since 1969, a staggering 3.7% (2% if you're a college graduate), competition between compani...