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title: The Big HR Ideas of 2015
description: 2015 was a year of big ideas in HR. Here are five that got the most shares from the Talent Management Talk blog.
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# [The Big HR Ideas of 2015](https://blog.mcquaig.com/the-big-hr-ideas-of-2015)

 Written by [The McQuaig Institute](https://blog.mcquaig.com/author/admin) | Dec 17, 2015 12:00:00 PM

What did you learn in 2015? What books really spoke to you and made you dog ear a page or two to come back to later? What articles or blog posts compelled you to share with a friend or your network? I’d like to share some of ours.

When I’m reading a book and I come across an idea I really want to come back to, to see how it can help me in my job or life, I bend the corner of the page down and, if I happen to have a highlighter nearby I highlight like crazy. I can look at a book and tell how engaging it was just by how many dog eared pages I can see. For example, *Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less* by Greg McKeown has more bent corners than straight ones.

And when I read a really good blog post, I click the share icons and let the world know that I think there are ideas in it that can help them.

This past year, I got a lot of really great feedback on the blogs we’ve posted in Talent Management Talk. I wanted to share with you some of the better ones and, at first, I thought of sharing my favorites. But then I thought maybe what speaks to me might not be what speaks to you. So, I decided to share the ones that got shared the most. Those are the ones all of you decided were worth telling your friends and networks about.

So, here are the 5 most shared Talent Management Talk blog posts of 2015:

1. [Why the Netflix CEO says Interviews Don’t Work, and What Does](https://blog.mcquaig.com/blog/why-reference-checking-beats-interviewing)
2. [New Video: Talking Talent Management & Social Media with @UnMarketing](https://blog.mcquaig.com/blog/new-video-talking-talent-management-social-media-with-unmarketing)
3. [Tips for Hiring Millennials from a Millennial](https://blog.mcquaig.com/blog/tips-for-hiring-millennials-from-a-millennial)
4. [How CEO Personality Shapes Corporate Culture, and Results](https://blog.mcquaig.com/blog/how-ceo-personality-shapes-corporate-culture-and-results)
5. [The Ultimate Guide to Employee Onboarding](https://blog.mcquaig.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-employee-onboarding)

If you enjoyed any of these, please share them with the people who matter to you.

**What big ideas, books or blogs resonated with you this year?**

*Image courtesy of Flickr CC and [Ken Douglas](https://www.flickr.com/photos/good_day/121183967/in/photolist-bH6LK-dWABcd-7JitbB-5gYV5Z-eYZhXu-rzehhF-fgyfMP-6aAFS1-C6L5M-ganvNB-aSX6ba-aSX52H-aSX6Kp-aSX3mk-aSX3YM-aSX1F4-aSX7i8-aSX4uc-aSX5yT-aSX2a6-Vdkto-gUC5GK-gUB99Q-gUBdUE-gUBqiH-gUBYVe-gUAWoW-gUAY9t-gUBfi1-gUBcjM-gUBVSk-aiCn25-kTZeJ-gUBUac-gUBhVN-gUB6HM-gUB3Xh-gUBpFv-gUBiw6-gUBqaN-gUAydJ-gUBguv-gUBdEc-gUBgys-gUBpBU-gUBeeY-gUBQiz-7FJwCq-dZhw5z-945zrG)*

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