Clearview Collection Team

The Clearview Collection, consists of a panel of recognized and respected career and workplace experts, who are providing perspectives and advice on a wide range of subjects and issues related to jobs, career management and employment. Members of the Clearview Collection include human resources, recruiting, management and employment professionals who have approximately 100 years of combined experience. Contributors to the Clearview Collection include: Jeff Hunter, Rusty Rueff, Liz Ryan, John Sumser and Hank Stringer as well as guest writer Jana Rich.Have questions or a suggested topic for the Clearview team? Contact us at AskClearview@glassdoor.com.

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Clearview Counterpoint: Should Employees Downgrade Job & Salary Expectations For Next Few Years?

Posted by • March 25th, 2010 • more

Unemployment statistics are reminding us again and again this isn’t just any old recession. Globalization, increased computing power, and a dramatic shift in consumer spending have organizations radically overhauling the way they get work done. Companies are getting significant increases in productivity at the same time customer demand remains weak. This means companies are likely to hire fewer people coming out of this recession and employment may remain depressed until beyond 2012.

This has real-world implications for job seekers and job holders. Some people have advised downgrading expectations in a job search and playing it safe with career moves. Others have recommended the exact opposite approach, saying now is the time to reinvent yourself and your career.

We put this topic to the Glassdoor Clearview Collection, a panel of career and workplace experts to find out:

* Should employees play it safe, hold on to their job and not jump ship until better days? Or should employees and job seekers seize the day and make their next big career move?
* What’s realistic versus idealistic in terms of a job switch?
* What is your advice for today’s and tomorrow’s workforce?

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Clearview Counterpoint: What Are The Consequences Of Being Uninformed About Your Salary & Compensation In 2010?

Posted by • January 29th, 2010 • more

For this Clearview Collection point-counterpoint debate we approach the topic of salary transparency and compensation concerns for 2010. Many companies have reset salary and bonus baselines (and maybe pay bands) in the past year and even though predictions of recovery rise, many companies are not planning to increase salary budgets.

Read on to see what the Glassdoor Clearview Collection, a panel of career and workplace experts, have to say about the consequences of not being informed about your fair market salary and compensation in 2010…

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Clearview Counterpoint: Career Experts Divided On Medical Privacy Issue

Posted by • November 19th, 2009 • more

How much personal health information should employers have about employees or job candidates?

Moderator: John Sumser

This month’s debate question is “How much personal health data should an employer be able to use to make job-related decisions?” Companies are getting more and more access to increasingly cheap ways to measure the physical status of their employees. Where should the limits be?

John Sumser: My desk is littered with the gadgets of personal health monitoring. Blood pressure cuffs, a blood glucose monitor, biofeedback gear, a breathing trainer and a meditation device. Nearby is a scale with a USB port. I’m looking at all of these devices to try to understand the future of personal health data.

My iPhone tracks all sorts of things. It manages health information, food consumption, the number of steps I take, exercise logs and medication schedules. It tracks where I am, what I’m doing, my finances and my physical status.

For me, it’s an amazing mirror showing me aspects of my personality that I never considered. A three-mile walk on the beach clobbers my blood pressure and sugar. The right blend of nutrients drives my mood over the following 24 hours. The more I quantify my behavior, the more ...

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Clearview Counterpoint: Is Corporate Recruiting Broken? Career & HR Experts Debate

Posted by • October 22nd, 2009 • more

Moderator: Liz Ryan

Here’s the issue:  Observers of the current organizational recruiting-and-selection process, in place at most employers, have noted that it’s a contender for the dubious ‘least functional corporate process’ award.

While Six Sigma and LEAN principles are in place in large and small organizations, governing processes from new-product design to the ordering of paper clips, the recruiting function too often sits in a slow, bureaucratic, talent-unfriendly realm of its own. A few of the symptoms include:

1. Candidates wait for weeks to hear from employers after what seemed like promising job interviews.

2. Candidates are treated like third-class citizens during the selection process as they go through the tedious and even insulting screening steps, also known as the Seven Trials of Hercules routine. (“Here’s our online personality test key, and when that’s done, we’ve got an honesty test, a writing test and a little math test for you to take…”).

3. Employers ask candidates to trust in them (that the company will stay in business, that the managers are ethical) but show less and less trust in candidates (“We’ll be needing W-2s for the last five years of employment … ”)

4. More and more selection processes are ‘front-loaded’ (“Before an interview, we’ll need three references, a credit check, and ...

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Clearview Counterpoint: Transparency – How Much is Too Much for Your Career?

Posted by • September 14th, 2009 • one

We are in the age of transparency and for job seekers – and even employees; the question is how much is too much?  Social media via sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, allow us to expose details about our personal and professional activities and sentiments. In last week’s school address, President Obama warned children about what they put on their Facebook pages as it relates to their future reputation. Should there be restrictions or guidelines to how much we expose? Should there be limits on transparency? That is this month’s Clearview Collection Point-Counterpoint Debate.

Rusty Rueff: There are no secrets, so it doesn’t matter what you have chosen to tell a prospective employer or not.  What you expose and share about yourself on any social media site is fair-game to be revealed.

Jeff Hunter: Transparency is a good thing. More transparency is a better thing. Transparency reduces risk, increases the likelihood of engaged talent and is the only way to build more innovative companies.

Hank Stringer: How much is too much? Haven’t we crossed that bridge? Isn’t the cat out of the bag? If it is too much how in the world do we put ...

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