What Are Your People Thinking This Monday?

It’s Monday. Back to work day. What are your people thinking?

I can’t wait to get into work? I can’t wait to see my friends? I need to check a box on my goals for my crappy performance review process? Ugh, I need to find a new job?

Mondays: It’s time to make them worth it.

Crazy Bosses Quiz

Stanley Bing has a blog.

And on that blog he has a quiz.

(E-I-E-I-O?)

Here a quiz.

There a quiz.

Everywhere a quiz quiz.

Tell the World About the Best Recruiting Website and You Can Win an iPod

What company has the best recruiting/HR page? Who kicks ass end gets names? What company’s recruiting page makes you go, “Wow, I wanna work there!”?

Companies invest a ton of money and energy recruiting the most qualified people. Who’s doing it best? Who has a way to get you to look even when you’re not looking? You know, the place where you’d look on a website if you were looking for a job and wanted to know about their HR info.

I’ve looked at a bunch of sites myself, but this question is more suited to the wisdom of the masses. I’m trying to get a gauge of what’s really great out there and you’re the ones who know. (BTW: Business that are in the business of recruiting people don’t count, e.g., Monster.com isn’t what I’m looking for unless it’s to employ people to work at Monster.)

Would you please leave leave a comment below with your thoughts about great recruiting/HR sites? (I’ll leave internal HR sites for discussion on another day.) I’ll publish a list - with attribution and links by April 30 at noon EST (GMT-5).

I Could Win an iPod Just for Playing?
Operators are on duty 24 hours a day. Well, maybe not, but KnowHR Blog is. As an extra little inducement, I thought we could make this a game. Here’s how it’ll work:

  1. Leave a response in the comments with a link to your nominee for Best Recruiting/HR site.
  2. Link to this post and KnowHR Blog if you have a blog. It’s linky love. I’ll reciprocate.
  3. Find out on April 30 at noon EST (GMT-5) if your name got pulled from a (virtual) hat.

The Prize Value Goes Up Depending on the Number of Responses
If we get at least the number of quality responses indicated below, the prize value goes up. Please note that there will be one prize, and which prize depends on how many quality responses we get (I’m asking about company websites that you’d look at even if you weren’t looking for a job.) The more responses the better. If we hit the front page of Digg, then I’ll think up an even cooler prize. (It’ll still be something from Apple.)

If We Get at Least…..You Can Win
100 Responses……..iPod Shuffle
300 Responses……..iPod Nano
500 Responses……..iPod (yes, the big dog)
1000 Responses……Apple TV

iPod Prizes

Hurry, the contest ends April 30!

A Little Survey Sensibility

Let’s see…you conduct an annual employee survey. It’s filled with happy-happy-joy-joy questions like, “I like working here.” You collect up all the results. And wait. The you wait some more. Finally, you publish the survey results. And they’re met with an orchestra of the world’s tiniest violins playing “I Don’t Care.”

Sound familiar?

Employee surveys can be a heckuva lot more effective. Susan Healthfield offers ways to make your surveys work for you and your employees in “Five Recommendations for Employee Satisfaction Surveys.” Here’s the summary of her sensible approach (please click over and read her whole article):

  1. Communicate the fact that while employee responses are confidential, the data gathered will be used to improve the workplace
  2. The questions asked really do matter
  3. Hold employee focus groups or survey processes at your work site
  4. Never lose control of your data
  5. Never allow employees to self-select for participation in surveys and focus groups

I’m not a great big fan of employee surveys because too many of them don’t make a link between the survey and actions. Those that do are winners, and I’ve seen that work, too. But if you don’t intend to do something about your employee survey results I have a recommendation of my own: Don’t do it. Step away from the survey.

Best Company to Work for in 2007: Google

Fortune released its 100 Best Companies to Work for in 2007. Topping the list: Google. One of the perks they cited: Not letting their employees be any more than 150 feet away from a food source. Yum.

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