The Best Places to Learn HR Secrets

Fistful of Talent—a blog where recruiters, consultants, and human resources experts have their say—this week listed its top 25 "Talent/Recruiting/HR/Human Capital Blogs."

Reading these blogs will give you a tremendous edge in understanding management decisions and help increase your career savvy:

Ranking/Blog Name (Power Rating)

1. The Recruiter's Lounge (89) (first place votes: 3)
2. ERE.net (69)
3. All Things Workplace (63) (first place votes: 2)
4. Compensation Force (58)
5. Evil HR Lady (57) (first place votes: 1)
6. Brazen Careerist (53) (first place votes: 1)
7. Seth Godin (53)
8. KnowHR (52)
9. Great Leadership (50)
10. cheezhead (41)
11. The Employee Factor (39)
12. The Fordyce Letter (37)
13. Bob Sutton (36)
14. HR Observations (33)
15. The Business of Management (33)
16. AmyBeth Hale—Research Goddess (33)
17. RecruitingBlogs.com (31)
18. Knowledge Infuser (26)
19. Louise's UK Recruiter Blog (26)
20. McArthur's Rant (26)
21. Marketing Headhunter (25)
22. TalentMash (25)
23. Personal Branding Blog—Dan Schawbel (24)
24. Jon Ingham's Strategic HCM Blog (23)
25. Taleo Blog (23)

(The Power Rating is a composite of the rankings of Fistful of Talent's judges. Each judge chose his or her 20 favorite blogs. Each of those blogs got a power number—20 for first place, 19 for second, etc. Then the power numbers from all the judges' picks were combined for the Power Rating.)