By HR Daily Advisor Managing Editor Jay Schleifer
Just My E-pinion
We’ve got two invitations for you this week: One will get you a free report of what your competitors plan to pay workers in 2008. The other can, well, make you famous.
They say opportunity knocks only once. But this week, it knocks twice.
That’s because we’re offering two ways to participate in our efforts to inform the HR community and to get something substantial back for doing so.
The first opportunity derives from BLR’s annual Pay Budget Survey process.
Each year we ask thousands of companies to fill out a short questionnaire on what they expect to pay their workers in the coming year. The information requested includes what percentage increases they have in mind, both general and merit, as well as some of the demographics of their organizations. It takes just a few minutes.
The information is then totaled and analyzed and presented in an extensive report, in which you can look up your geographical area, company size and industry, and very likely see what your area and industry competition has in mind. The data are evendivided by exempt and nonexempt and unionized vs. nonunion situations. And all individual company data are kept confidential, of course. Only group results are reported.
The payoff: Every company that takes part gets the survey report FREE! (It usually sells for about $100.) Just fill out the questionnaire and it’s yours.
Ready to take advantage of this opportunity? Just click here for the questionnaire. But don’t delay. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, July 3rd. Join the BLR Pay Budget Survey now!
Now for that second opportunity ….
You’re invited to write your own E-pinions column!
This is the second time we’ve asked, and we’re doing it again because of the great results we got first time around.
Thanks to Skip Weisman for supplying lessons HR can learn from professional sports and Hank Triplett for teaching us the value of “soft skills.” Thanks to Cynthia Thomas Calvert for educating us on family responsibilities discrimination and to Steven Horner for asking, in a column you’ll see soon, whether our business leaders should be licensed, just like barbers and electricians! And thanks to others not yet published.
Now it’s your turn.
Your column can be on any HR subject, an experience you care to share, or a reaction to any current issue, such as immigration, retention, or changes in the minimum wage, the FMLA, or other laws. It can be about how HR is treated by the rest of business or anything else in HR that rings your bell or pushes your buttons. There are a few guidelines:
1) Your article should be original and about 500 to700 words long. If it’s a bit shorter or longer, not a problem. (We care more about quality than quantity.) We reserve the right to use, not use, or edit any submission at our sole discretion and to do so in any form or format.
2) The article has to be about some aspect of HR. The opinions of any other persons or sources quoted should be credited.
3) If you’d rather simply write us a query on doing an article, you may do so. Send a brief paragraph or two describing what you want to write, and we’ll reply with our reactions.
4) Submissions (article or query) should be by e-mail and include your full name, title, organization name and address, a phone number, and best time to reach you. This information can be withheld from publication at your request.
5) Consultants may make submissions that mention their services, as long as the column is not outright advertising. Contact information can be included.
E-mail directly to JSchleifer@blr.com with the subject line “E-pinion.” (Please do not send to HR Daily Advisor.)
So crank up that email program and pour out those e-pinions. We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
If you’d like to examine previous e-pinion pieces, click here.
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