• SHRM, HR reach for new identity
  THE SHRM rebranding campaign announced this week is about more than just sprucing up a logo. It’s also a symbol of the way the HR profession is shedding its skin for a new one. SHRM officials and others in the field can hardly wait to get rid of the old administrative image. But the process of becoming more "strategic" is not entirely comfortable, and it’s not clear exactly...

• Freebies? Who cares? We need HR software
  With a map, a list of 20 companies and a mandate to find a new HR information system, Edwin Cassady and Marjorie O’Halloran took a more measured pproach to the exhibition floor yesterday than the crowd scurrying toward freebies. "We’re waiting for the rush to get down,"says Cassady, vice president of HR for Patelco Credit Union in San Francisco. "We don’t want to get stampeded."...

• SHRM Says '07 Show Will Go Down As Largest Ever...

• Heard In The Halls: Party Like a Monster, Like Mother, Like Daughter, Those Were the Days, This Bus is Full...

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• Burden of Power: HR chiefs on hot seat more than ever before.
  Having demanded a larger role in corporate strategy, HR leaders are facing greater expectations than ever before. Be careful what you wish for, HR. More than ever, human resource professionals are getting that long-desired "seat at the table," with company execs seeking HR’s help in setting talent-related strategy. But with great power comes...

• Vegas HR vet’s secrets to success on the Strip
  Managing a workforce in Las Vegas appears to be a breeze, what with a well-educated local workforce geared toward tourism and a constant stream of newcomers eager to start working. But don’t quit your job just yet, thinking that Las Vegas is an HR paradise.

• Attendance Could Be New Record for SHRM...

• Heard In The Halls: Lining Up for Lance, Quiet Down, People and Slaking Thirst From a Segway, and more...

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  • Survey: Workers More Stressed

  • Let the Product Rollouts Begin

  • Ceridian, GeoLearning Team Up

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• Vendors’ big rival: playground
  of Vegas
  If you’re a SHRM exhibitor this year, how do you make sure that your booth can compete with the glitz and glitter of the city outside? Between the trip, the casinos, the shows and the buffets, it could be a losing bet. That’s why a number of companies at the show, such as the RightThing and Yahoo HotJobs, are heavily marketing outside the convention center this year. Meanwhile, job boards...

• Readying HR managers for a post-HRO future
  The half-filled room at Saturday’s session on project management skills may signal that HR managers don’t yet understand that they must embrace the role of project manager now that more companies are outsourcing their HR processes. As more companies turn over activities like payroll and benefits administration to vendors, HR managers either have to...

• Speaker's "Radical" Answer to Stale Hiring Practices...

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  • So, Who are you likely to see at this year's show?

  • Consultant backs basic pilot.

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