HR Carnival: 46 Early Presents

How can you turn down 46 early Christmas presents? (Yes I know, not everyone celebrates Christmas, but would you turn down 46 presents just because of a technicality? Really?) These presents come in the form of blog posts featured on the mid-December HR Carnival, hosted by Lance Haun at Rehaul. Lance sorted through all these and put them in categories to make it easy to find a subject of interest. These categories included:

• His Favorite Five
• General HR
• Recruiting
• Calling BS
• How To
• Inspiring Stuff
• Learning, Development and Training
• and Careers

Many a great blogger can be found here and you will one educated HR pro by the time you finish reading this stuff.

When you are reading to do some learning then click on REHAUL HR Carnival – It’s All About Content.

Mid-Summer Carnival of HR: Education for HR

The mid-summer edition of the Carnival of HR is being hosted by Jennifer McClure of Unbridled Talent in her Online Degree edition. There are some very interesting and educational posts to be found and you can get a semester's worth of learning in a few hours just by reading these blog posts.

You can find learning material on leadership, corporate culture, diversity, technology, performance management, psychology, recruiting, social media, talent and much more.

So, if you want to be stimulated, educated, elucidated, and just made plain 'ol smarter then trot on over to Unbridled Talent and grab yourself some learnin'.

The HR Carnival: Summer Time Edition

The summer time edition of the HR Carnival was published yesterday at Mark Stelzner's blog site called Inflexion Point. It is a great collection of HR related articles. If you are on vacation it will make some good beach reading (unless you follow my advice). If you are not on vacation it a good way to spend an hour and get some extra information and education.

There is NO BETTER WAY to stay current than reading professional blogs. And there in no better way to find them than walking down the midway of the HR Carnival.

Good reading.. and if you are on the beach wear your sunglasses and make sure you are using sunscreen unless you are on the Gulf Coast, in which case you are already covered in Sunblock 5000. (Anyone know what movie that is from?)

HR Carnival: End of April Edition

The folks at Talent Junction hosted the latest version of the HR Carnival. There is some great reading in this one! Here are some samples:

• For The Survival of HR: Drucker Lesson of the Day.
• How To Fix The HR Profession
• 6 Reasons Why Talent Management is a Strategic Imperative
• Six Signs You Have An HR Pirate
• Can Common Sense be Learned?
• Be fluid in your thinking, but concrete in your communication
• Getting the Performance Appraisal Right
• 5 ways to Exit When Your Boss is Abusive
• How To Fix The HR Profession
• 5 benefits of taking a vacation

And much more. So buy your TICKET TO THE CARNIVAL HERE and head to the midway of great reading.

And stay tuned. The next HR Carnival on May 12th will be hosted right here at HR Observations!

Carnival of HR: Mid-April Edition

Well some how I missed it.. But upon finding it I wanted to point it out to you. The "Not So Corporate HR Carnival" was published at the ImSoCorporate blog site. The topics of the 30 blogs posted cover the gamut from social media to workplace humor and songs about work. In between are posts on 360 reviews, leadership, myths of productivity, technology, compensation and labor.

It is this last post, by Mike Vandervort, that I want you to pay attention to. I was going to do a post on this as well but Mike says it so well I would just be redundant. BUT THIS POST HAS SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION IN IT. SO READ IT! Here is the special link to Life Under the New National Labor Relations Board. This new "life" will not be fun, it will not be easy and it may be expensive if you do not heed the warnings contained here in.

Christmas Gifts for Everyone: The Carnival of HR

Getting great gifts at Christmas time is always fun. Well here is your Christmas gift from HR bloggers. April Dowling at Pseudo HR, hosted this early Christmas version of HR Carnival – ‘Twas the night before.

Read about Twitter, laughter, company parties, eggnog, jobs, bonuses, hiring clowns and several Top 10 lists. So sit down and rip off the paper and take some pleasure in this gift of knowledge.

If you celebrate Christmas then MERRY CHRISTMAS! And even if you don't celebrate Christmas then Merry Christmas spirit to you anyway.

(BTW, the picture is me dressed as Santa.)

HR Carnival: Some of the Best in HR Reading

Crapola (click on the link for a def.)... I missed it again! I just need to get better organized. Ben Eubanks was the host this time around over at Upstart HR. He published 25 Pieces of HR Awesomeness. That is this months HR Carnival, which now has its own logo. --------->

I promise to have a post in the next one which will appear just after Thanksgiving. In the meantime, as a carny might say... " right here, right here. Get yer' HR edumacation right here. 25 great posts for only a dollar. In fact they are free!"