Talent
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HR Metrics: External recruitment rate
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Feb 4 The external recruitment rate is important because it informs of the organization’s ability to provide growth opportunities for employees and alternatively to infuse new ideas from outside…
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LinkedIn Talent Advantage
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LinkedIn is expanding it’s corporate recruiting functionality today with Talent Advantage. Really, all of the functionality is old stuff that has been rebranded. There is a new “Custom Company…
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HR Metrics: Competency fill rates
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By now, many of our organizations have competency assignments for each candidate and employee within the organization. Along with those competency assignments you probably have skill levels for each…
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HR Metrics: Quality of Hire
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All too often, we talk about the quality of hire measured by a new employee’s first performance review. We like to correlate this metric back to the source of…
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Recruiting CRM’s
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There seems to be a fairly significant movement from recruiting as an applicant tracking system to a relationship management system. At this point, I’m advocating recruiting CRM’s in some…
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HR Metrics: Offer Accept Rate
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Last time I looked for a job, I had three offers. Each of these offers were with very similar organizations, with very similar offer packages, and with exactly the…
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Changing Talent Strategies for HR Strategies
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So how many people do you have? What are their competencies? What is the total aggregated of any particular competency in your entire employee base? What is the engagement…
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The Singularity
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What is “the singularity?” It’s basically the Terminator movie in practice. The singularity predicts that there is a point where computers become so intelligent that they are able to…
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Cover-ups
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Up through the Beijing Olympics, I’d been reading stories almost on a daily basis about how China was trying to present a public image of itself that was not…
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Enterprise 2.0 Diagram
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I ran across this quite interesting and comprehensive e2.0 diagram and thought I’d share. I like how it’s organized with Actors, Technologies and Methods as part of the engine…
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Microsoft’s Attempt at GenY
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Hey, Genius. We want you. We know you’re genius in some way or another. Whether you’re code crazy, binary brilliant or master of origami dollhouses, it’s all good by…
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Integrating Talent Applications (Suites)
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As we seem to be moving past the initial enamoration of talent functionality, there seems to be more and more disillusionment with the lack of full integration that we…
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Stages in Talent Management Maturity
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The taleo blog recently wrote a piece about the sages of maturity for talent management solutions. I actually like this 4 stage continuum, and think it applies to more…
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Engagement Over: Workstream-Empagio
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Why Workstream wanted to be tied to Empagio in the first place never quite made sense to me. When their merger was announced several months ago, everyone knew Workstream…
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US Businesses for Sale?
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Back in I guess what was the 80’s, there was all the rage over Japanese money buying US property and business. Well times have changed and there is an…
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HR Budgets & the Economy
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The economy is in the tank, and while predictions are that things will get better in 2009, many HR leaders are doing budgets right now. The problem with recessions…
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Offboarding
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There is a single offboarding experience that sticks out in my mind as one of the most positive work experiences I’ve ever had. While these days we have technology…
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Your Best Employees
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So who are your best employees? Are they simply the top performance scores? Are they the ones who hold the most patents? Have the best win ratio when in…
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Management Gurus: Peter Principle and HR
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While I’m sure everyone thinks I’m going to write about Tom Peters, instead, there is another, more famous Peter Principle out there: The Peter Principle is the principle that…
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Management Gurus: Drucker and HR
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Interestingly enough, Peter Drucker was writing about talent management as early as 1945. He was clearly decades ahead of his time, and his earliest writings still contain lessons for…