78 - Campus Recruiting & When Firing HR Pros Goes Wrong

On episode 78 of The HR Famous Podcast, long-time HR leaders (and friends) Tim Sackett, Jessica Lee and Kris Dunn come together to discuss campus recruiting, how terminated employees can cause damage, and some of our favorite firing horror stories. 

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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

1:30 - It’s conference season! Tim wonders if conferences will permanently have a virtual option now. 

5:45 - Tim asks if the team has had any experience recruiting new grads or soon-to-be college grads. Tim calls out Handshake for changing the campus recruiting process. He asks JLee how campus recruiting at Marriott works and what the frustrations are. 

8:45 - JLee mentions how a lot of career center employees are out of touch with the corporate world and simply rely on their relationships to help their students. 

11:15 - KD brings up John Nykolaiszyn from Florida International University (who was a guest on KD’s other pod Best Hire Ever) as an example of a campus career services leader doing it right. 

13:30 - Tim harps on career services for hiding their students instead of making them really available for employers.

16:45 - Tim says that CHRO’s want from universities and colleges is a LinkedIn for college students. They want some sort of database that is like LinkedIn that will allow them to search for new hires in their areas.

19:00 - Tim hired 2 new grads to his company and he had to reach out to career services directly in order to get on Handshake since he had a ”low trust score”. 

21:30 - MarketWatch recently released an article about an upset HR executive that deleted 17,000 resumes from their system after being fired. Tim asks the crew to share their best resignation/firing story. 

25:00 - KD tells a story about the termination of a blue collar employee at a former company he worked with and he had to restrain the terminated employee to help save a manager. 

27:30 - JLee’s story involves a fired employee and someone’s personal mini fridge and helping them remove it from their office. 

33:00 - Tim says that companies need to have their systems locked down when firing someone remotely or they can risk someone doing damage to their online systems and databases. 

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