Geeks, Geezers, and Googlization Show

This week on The Geeks Geezers and Googlization Show we're talking about the #MeToo movement and its effects on the culture of HR as we know it. Rebecca Weaver and Nickolett Hocking from HR Uprise lead us in an eye-opening discussion regarding "disruptive HR", the #MeToo movement, and how Human Resource departments wield so much more power than they realize.   In the wake of #MeToo and the convers...

On this episode of The Geeks Geezers and Googlization Show, we're talking with the Editor-in-Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, Jason Feifer. Keith, Jason, and I dive deep into the resentment that each generation seems to have for the next. If you're curious to hear Jason's thoughts on this topic, you'll love this episode. We get down to brass tacks quickly.   First, Jason invited us to take a look a...

Join me on BeTheTalk, a 7 day a week podcast, where Nathan Eckel chats with me about my journey to and from my TEDx talk, living in a VUCA world. Ira S Wolfe is a "Millennial trapped in a Baby Boomer body." He's known for his fierce passion for embracing exponential change and his commitment to understanding its impact on people, jobs, and work. Ira is an accomplished speaker/author and President...

Is HR on the fast track to irrelevance or what will it take for HR to finally get a "seat at the table?" Those are just a few of the critical questions discussed in this episode of Geeks, Geezers, and Googlization. My guest is Ed Krow, partner and co-founder of TurboExecs and 25 year "veteran" of HR. This episode was prompted by two separate but almost simultaneous experiences shared by me (Ira S...

True or False?  There is a brewing technological storm threatening to eliminate hundreds of jobs and leave millions of workers without a paycheck. Listen to this podcast when futurists John McElligott and Ira S Wolfe discuss why robots, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), and other advanced technologies probably won't destroy occupations and jobs as quickly as many experts forecast....

This podcast is the second in a 2-part series. You can listen to the 1st podcast here. For decades, posting a job opening was a relatively simple task. All a recruiter had to do was share the job description across the appropriate channels and candidates came pouring in. Today, the  competition for talent is fierce  and writing content to advertise a job opening requires a lot more finesse. An eff...

Business Builders Show host Marty Wolff interviews Ira S. Wolfe, author of this great new book  Recruiting in the Age of Googlization: When The Shift Hits Your Plan.   The Business Builders Show with Marty Wolff is proud to bring you this interview on  www.c-suiteradio.com   Ira was one of the FIRST and most outspoken leaders to talk about job and skill changes nearly twenty years ago. And he rema...

Google receives  300 million job-related search requests  each month, which makes up nearly 30 percent of all Google searches. Unfortunately, for many organizations, there's often a significant disconnect between how job seekers search for opportunities and how  recruiters  post jobs. Consequently, it's all too easy for a job posting to evaporate into cyberspace and become an invisible blip in a s...

"Shift or die. It's that simple." These are the opening words of the new best seller Recruiting in the Age of Googlization.  Author Ira S Wolfe explains how most people don't think big enough and how many executives, business owners, and individuals tune out what's happening and underestimate the disruption that exponential change causes.  He even cites how legendary American business magnate and...

"Is this year going to be more challenged than last year" when it comes to talent acquisition. "Yes" is the nearly unanimous answer! Consequently, recruiters and HR are scrambling to chase top talent. Unfortunately traditional recruitment practices that just aren't working anymore. One underutilized but massively successful solution is video which might explain its explosion of popularity in every...

Recruiting top talent in 2018 - from the production floor to the C-Suite - will be more competitive than ever. To reach and engage qualified candidates, organizations must stand out. And no matter how creative the text-based job posting, text is still text and it pales in comparison to the power of video. For example, video is watched and shared 1200% more than text and images. The impact of video...

Sociology professor Tony Campolo said, "I am convinced we don't live in a generation of bad kids. We live in a generation of kids who know too much too soon." From an intellectual perspective, Millennials today have been exposed to so much more than Gen X and Baby Boomers at the same age. They've consumed information on everything from cyberspace to sexual techniques before they graduate from midd...

A Baby Boomer walks into a room and finds 3 smart, hard-working Millennials sitting at a table. That's it. There is no joke. Sparks didn't fly. Attitudes didn't clash. The Millennials didn't ask to be CEO tomorrow. Ironically, these 3 twenty-something start-up entrepreneurs "hired" Baby Boomer Jon Carson, more than 3 ½ decades older and 2 generations removed, to be CollegeVine 's first chief execu...

In these VUCA (Volatile-Uncertain-Complex-Ambiguous) times, what's next seems to be top of everyone's mind these days from the coffee shop to the board room.  So it seemed pretty obvious that when Dr. Liz Alexander and Geeks Geezers and Googlization host and TEDx Speaker Ira S Wolfe got together to discuss the future of work that what's next in leadership would kick off the conversation. Here are...

Purpose, vision, and mission often get bantered about in board rooms as if the words held magical powers.  They don't. It's the passion and action behind those words that matter. During this podcast, my friend and colleague John Dame didn't waste any time tackling one of the biggest concerns we hear from executives and small business owners when we ask "what is the purpose of your business."  The...

What does the future of work look like was the focus of a recent interview I had with Rick Anthony on his Entrepreneurs Network Radio show. Like most of our conversations, we started off with a discussion about the multi-generational workforce.  And like we do so often it led off with a discussion of the Baby Boomers and Millennials.  Rick started with, "What is the major shift you see occurring r...

Whether you believe that change is going to impact your business 2 years, 5 years, or 10 years from now, Ira S Wolfe has some breaking news.  There is something extraordinary happening.  And many of us haven't noticed. We go about our business as usual while the environment in which we operate is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. Whatever time frame you believe you have to adapt… cut re...

Talent management is in a "state of confusion." Those were the words of Mike Haberman , a long term friend and colleague of mine. I respect Mike a lot and scheduled him for a very long overdue interview. One reason organizations struggle to attract and retain talent is that no one seems to be able to agree on the definition of talent. And if you can't identify it, how can you manage it? During thi...

DISC is one of the most popular assessment tools on the planet. Millions of people complete the assessment each year. And still it's often misunderstood and misused. Many participants in training and coaching describe their experience as "fun" and "informative" but then fail to apply its diverse and universal approach toward communicating with others. During this podcast DISC experts Ira S Wolfe a...

Bashing Millennials has become a national pastime. Older generations watch and wonder who invaded the souls of nearly 80 million American youth...along with hundreds of millions worldwide. As Rick Anthony from The Anthony Group shares in this podcast, "{management seems to fear] the Millennials, almost like they are aliens who have come from another planet." Millennial James Goodnow , an attorney...

Most everyone recognizes that technology is changing the way we work and the pace of change is accelerating ...except when it comes to how companies recruit and hire employees. It seems that many companies are sitting back and expecting change to stand still until they have the time and feel the urge to react. Unfortunately that's never happened...and likely never will.  Many businesses are gettin...

85 percent of Americans ages 18-29 (Millennials) are  smartphone owners . For many of them, the recruiting pitch lobbed to Millennials is so far outside the strike zone, the candidates just step back and vanish. If your company wants to be reach Millennials, it's essential that you walk in the shoes of a young job candidate. In recruiting speak…If you want to attract young top talent, it's crucial...

Bashing Millennials has become a national pastime. Described as narcissistic, immature, trophy kid slackers, this generation (born between 1980 and 1996) has become the "alien" generation. Other generations watch and wonder who snatched the life and soul out of nearly 80 million American youth...and hundreds of millions worldwide.   If only these labels were true. For sure, the stereotypes stick f...

Truth be told, the cost of a bad hire induces widespread collateral damage — like spending $100 bills to earn pennies. When you consider that a toxic employee has a negative impact on both coworkers and customers, the costs skyrocket. According to a recent Cornerstone report, bad hires make their teammates 54 percent more likely to quit and can cost organizations up to three times more in hiring f...

"This [interview] is a clinic for small business owners and HR." Those were the words used by Business Builder Show hosts Marty Wolff and Kerry Kearney to describe this interview with Success Performance Solutions President and author Ira S Wolfe. zyou might be asking what is Recrooglization? The word was coined by Ira Wolfe to describe the current state of recruiting.  It's simple – it's the prac...