December 14, 2015
Comparing Flux with Redux Working with React, we compared flux with redux, our team decided to use redux. The devtools redux offers was icing on the cake. Diving in, we wanted a central location for all of our API calls. The API middleware would need to handle dispatching a pre-request, successful request, and failures. To handle this, we set our actions in the following format Actions import DT_API_CALL from '../middleware/api'; const USER_REQUEST = 'USER_REQUEST'; const USER_SUCCESS = 'USER_SUCCESS'; export function fetchUser(userId) { return { [DT_API_CALL]: { types: [USER_REQUEST, USER_SUCCESS], endpoint: '/user/${userId}', method: 'get' } }; } export function saveUser(user) { return { [DT_API_CALL]: { types: [USER_REQUEST, USER_SUCCESS], endpoint: '/user/update', method: 'put', data: user } }; } Configure middleware Configuring our middleware looks something like: export default store => next => action => { const apiCall = action[DT_API_CALL]; if (typeof apiCall…
March 18, 2016
Webinar: Hiring Millennials to Retain Wednesday, March 31, 2016, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT Gone are the days when interns were hired to fill the coffee pot, make copies, and run errands. Companies that build strong and effective internship programs are now hiring interns who are creating valuable impact in all areas of the business. The problem? Most companies don’t know how to take the intern and convert them into a full-time hire who will stay. The disconnect between internship and full-time employment is hard and companies are now looking for ways to increase their conversion rate. In this webinar, learn how to take a stellar intern or employee and retain them for years to come. Takeaways include: -- The Benefits of Creating a Program Designed to Retain interns after their internship is over, thus increasing the overall conversion…
February 25, 2016
Do you know what HR Case Management is? In the customer service sense, case management speaks to tracking interactions with customers, making sure their purchasing and product acquisition experience is the best. If we were to address case management in a healthcare environment, we would see the tracking of the life cycle of a patient, through their interactions with a healthcare provider or healthcare facility/system. HR Case Management can be viewed similarly, in that reporting and tracking employee interactions with HR allows for a greater understanding of the employee experience with the employer, and vice versa. Data collected using HR Case Management creates opportunity to efficiently handle questions, requests, and problems without losing any information, or letting issues or challenges to be mishandled, mismanaged or not managed at all. Recap The use of an HR Case Management system ensures that…
January 28, 2016
Knowledge Management I wrote a piece on Getting Started with Knowledge Management that has been used by several of our clients at the beginning of their process. If you're still trying to figure out what you should be doing to move off of the starting line, it could be very helpful. And if you are serious about using an HR Case Management platform, then you should be very interested in the topic. Otherwise, you are missing out on what might be the most powerful part of the system. If you've done the foundation work, though, you might be looking around for the next step. So let's talk about that, because the care and feeding of your knowledge base is a critical element of long term success. Unlike most software companies, we use our own product every day. When one of…
