OCT 2011 ISSUE
Warren Heaps

Who is Warren Heaps?
	Warren Heaps is a Partner at Birches Group LLC which is an HR consultancy based in New York and Manila. They specialise in developing markets compensation and benefits surveys.is the Editor of the International HR Forum and shares with us Three Rules for Compensation Surveys in Smaller Developing Markets.
Highlights Warren is also the Editor of the International HR Forum Specialities include compensation surveys in smaller developing markets. Tag words compensation, surveys, developing markets. Follow Up The International HR Forum Some tips..... Warren shares with us, Three Rules for Compensation Surveys in Smaller Developing Markets.

Who is Steve Roesler?
	Steve Roesler, award-winning writer and speaker on leadership, management and career management, is the Principal and Founder of the Steve Roesler Group. He has designed and delivered leadership and communication programmes for some of the world's largest organisations and has more than 30 years of contributing to speaking, professional development, and high-level executive coaching.
An authority on, and certified in, Situational Leadership, Problem-Solving/Decision Making Methodologies, and advanced applications of Jungian psychology and the MBTI, his latest published works include a leap into social media as a co-author of The Age of Conversation I and II as well as an upcoming book with the Employee Engagement Network.

Highlights
Steve once made 59 speeches in 63 days while on a business speaking gig across South Africa. He fainted from exhaustion on day 61 in front of an audience of 3,000. He awoke to a standing ovation.

Specialities include
Talent and educational course design; strategy formulation; service, quality and customer relationships; human resource strategies; organisational redesign; CEO succession; cross culture and global business.

Tag words
talent development, customer satisfaction, business goal execution.

Follow Up
Steve keeps a blog

On guiding a discussion.....
When you're in a group discussion--or leading it--and you see the energy begin to drop, ask a question. A good question can breathe life into a team in a way that advice never can. When things get "stuck" or heated, the human condition stops problem-solving and starts digging in. Open-ended questions put everyone back into creative mode and move things away from turf issues or boredom. Remember: Questions activate the mind; statements promote mental passivity.

APR 2011 ISSUE
Jim Stroud

Who is Jim Stroud?
	Jim Stroud, Social Media Development Manager at Global English.Over the past decade, Jim has built an expertise in lead generation strategies, social media recruiting, video production, podcasting, online research, competitive intelligence, community management and training. He has consulted for such companies as Microsoft, Google, MCI, Siemens and a host of startup companies. Jim has managed an award-winning blog - "The Recruiters Lounge."
He also produces "The Hidden Job Report" and recently discontinued "The Searchologist," a recruiter training membership site and magazine. He currently co-hosts the weekly technology podcast - Friday Traffic Report and produces "The Jim Stroud Show," a video series focused on job search strategy and technology. (Jim Stroud has produced multiple web series devoted to such topics as: job search, recruiting, technology and language learning.)

Highlights
Jim’s twitter blog was cited by Entrepreneur Magazine in the article – The Influencers : Five to Follow on Twitter for Hiring.

Specialities include
social media, community management, content creation, video production, internet marketing, lead generation, podcasting, creative writing, online research, competitive intelligence, digital strategy, recruiting, sourcing, keyword research, attraction marketing/

Tag words
online research, social media development, resume sourcing

" The number one issue with resume sourcing is that ...sourcers should realise that their search is only as good as the keywords they are searching for. I think Sourcers should take a semantic approach to finding resumes. In other words, look beyond the keywords in the job description. Look also for terms that are related to what you are looking for (Google’s Wonder Wheel and LinkedIn’s Skills page are great for that). For example, if someone says on their resume that they "developed a suite of fast incremental algorithms for machine learning which can be used for training models for classification, regression, ranking, or combined regression and ranking," would you realise that they were talking about a search engine they created? If not, do you see how you may have missed out on a great candidate? " - Jim Stroud.

For more info, visit Jim Stroud's blog.

I only worked at Coke for a year before I was recruited by another entrepreneur to help launch a product. After a few months in this new job, it hit me -- the names and products had changed but the unconventional behaviour, temperament and the challenges of each new entrepreneur boss was eerily familiar. I was living my own personal Groundhog Day.

In my blog, I try to map out the inevitable challenges readers will face by exposing the method behind the madness of the entrepreneur boss and describe it in a fashion that allows readers to draw parallels to their own situations. Although I see clear patterns to the behaviour, and most of what I write about cites research supporting the statements (for example, there is a higher percentage of dyslexia among entrepreneurs than the general public), my blog is meant to be taken with a grain of salt. At the end of the day, it is designed to give you some insight, but more importantly to give you a chuckle. A much needed chuckle.

Check it out -- http://workingforwonka.com/

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At the recent Mobile and Video in Recruitment Conference which took place 28 September in London, Nick presented on the Power of Film : Employer Branding at Work. Nick believes that video should be a critical component for an employer’s branding or recruitment strategy.

Preferring to think of it as film rather than video, Nick argues, “Film is such a rich and powerful medium. It gets right to the heart of why people do the job they do and why they choose one organisation over another. The old thinking used to be ‘let’s go and do a recruitment video’ whereas now the new thinking is ‘let’s produce a film about our organisation and its work’ as it gets to the core value of the job itself. Film can then be used right across the employee lifecycle from initial attraction through to induction, onboarding and internal engagement. Not every organisation is right for everyone either and film produced in the right way can certainly aid that decision making from a recruitment perspective. What surprises me now is if I go onto a recruitment website and see a section like ‘the day in the life of’ and its just written text. Already that seems archaic. In the not too distant future I would expect most organisations to have a significant proportion of film on their careers website.”

Nick blogs on a range of topics including employer branding, the employment communications arena and the use of video/film as a way to bring further tangibility to the employer’s message.

For more information on Nick, visit workingfilms.co.uk. Visit his blog at http://www.whateveryouthink.com/

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One of the most popular bloggers worldwide.He wants to change the way you think about marketing, change itself and work.
Passionate, insightful and forceful, he will make you re-think your approach. He goes beyond the realm of marketing.
Judge for yourself.

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APRIL 2009 ISSUE
The Evil HR Lady
If you haven't already heard about the Evil HR Lady, go check her blog.
The Evil HR Lady was a finalist at the 2007 Weblog Awards, the world's largest blog competition with over 525,000 votes cast in the 2006 edition for finalists in 45 categories.

Evil HR Lady has also started the Carnival of HR which features posts from the best of the HR and management blogging community.

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