Author: Bob Brady

New Employee Orientation: How to Do It Right

By Bob Brady Mar 5, 2007 Learning & Development

Updated: Mar 5, 2007

Future job performance and retention start with the very first day on the job, say two HR experts. Here’s how to make that day, and what follows, worthwhile. Remember your first day on the job? A bit terrifying, wasn’t it? Even if you came from a similar position, there were new people to meet, new […]

Google’s Hiring Practices: Are They Dumbing Down … Or Wising Up?

By Bob Brady Mar 2, 2007 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Mar 2, 2007

By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady Google has shifted its hiring criteria from “rocket scientists” to team players. The question is ‘Why?’ Google, which has the reputation of hiring only the smartest of the smart (perfect SATs, “A” list colleges, highest grades), may be “dumbing down.” According to newspaper reports, it is relaxing its […]