Gotta engage ’em all – Pokemon Go for HR

Pokemon Go splash page

A tweet from earlier this week resonated with me — and a few others. Holger Müller ( @holgermu ) shared the following post: “Best line on #DisruptTV so far – @mikeettling – Waiting for PokemonGo app for HR – catch talent or a leader. ;-)” Such an HR app would not just be focused solely on catching, it would include engaging and retaining as well. Novel ways of catching the attention of prospective employees, whether through puzzles, code breaking or alternate reality games have worked well, and augmented reality lends itself well as a technology to do the same. What … Continue reading

Blog posts verses podcasts

Hi!  Your co-host and co-founder of GamesAtWork.Biz here – Michael R.  I know we’ve not been very good lately at posting shows and I wanted to just drop a note to say we are still around.  For some reason 2016 has been crazy for all of us at GamesAtWork.biz.  Crazy with Travel, Crazy with day jobs, and Crazy in our personal lives. One of the big questions I have is, as a listener to this podcast would you be interested if we posted some blog posts on those weeks when we are unable to record a show?  I know we’ve … Continue reading

Snow, Ice, and Podcasting

Well, We’ve started off the year in a roaring fashion, between CES (you can find out more over at Michael’s blog), lots of travel, and this week’s east coast Snow and Ice. We hope to be back up to full strength soon! So in the mean time why not drop us a comment or tweet and tell us what are you playing.

A Thankful Post

While we are not recording a show this week, it is the U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving this week, we do want to take a minute to say thank you to all of our listeners and guests. Without each of you, this podcast would not be possible (well technically we could sit in a room or on Skype and record a conversation). Your input, feedback and support mean a lot to us. Each week that we hear from you via email, twitter, Facebook or even on this site, let’s us know that this podcast is worth while. it is in that … Continue reading