NERDALERT BLOG
The Comp Function Needs to Change
Last night I attended and made some brief remarks at the Chicago Comp+Cocktails event sponsored by Payfactors. Payfactors is doing some interesting things in the world of compensation management, with the overall message of a [...]
Metrics as Guides, not Grades
I received some great email feedback from the last past on measuring quality of hire. There seems to be a hunger for more clarity and specificity in the HR metrics space, and particularly a call [...]
Measuring Quality of Hire
I've been thinking a lot lately about how to measure hiring quality, and I'm hoping to test an idea with you. Over time I have grown a bit frustrated with the focus on "time [...]
Gender Pay Gap (Part 2): What Does “Equal Pay” Really Mean?
This is the second part of a series of posts relating to the gender pay gap. Last week, we pointed out that nearly all data sets are subject to the proverbial “garbage in, garbage out” [...]
Battling Bias
We work with a lot of data. How often do we question whether it is good data? Big idea: if you don't start with the right data, you can get the wrong conclusions. Let's [...]
Fail Faster (but not in HR)
I am struck by the contradiction between how businesses run their business and how those same businesses run their HR organization. The product development teams operate in an Agile fashion, embracing a requirements change and [...]