Talent
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Better Recruiting Through Social Networks?
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Jobvite released their new survey on the utilization of social networks for recruiting. Most of this is not a surprise as recruiting seems to be the early adopter for…
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Rethinking the Career Ladder
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Most career ladders go something like this • Associate 1 –> Associate 2 –> Professional 1 –> Professional 2 –> Senior Pro Ladder • Associate 1 –> Associate 2…
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10 Job Fair Tips That Really Work (For the Recruiter)
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The following was contributed to the site: Whether you are looking for interns or executives, attending a job fair can be a very effective strategy for recruiters. With the…
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Gaming and Collaboration
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Gen Y. They sit at their PC’s, play their games, and avoid all real social contact. As they enter the workforce, their lack of social skills will be a…
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The Value Proposition in a Multi-Dimensional Workforce
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Karen Beaman states that the workforce is changing: Multi-Generational – we are are now seeing up to four generations of workers working simultaneously in the workplace — Veterans, Boomers,…
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The State of Kenexa
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Last month Kenexa invited a group of analysts and industry influencers to PA for a roundup and briefing of what they are up to. I’ll personally say that I’m…
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Taleo and Vurv: The State of the Talent Marketplace
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While it comes as no surprise that software vendor consolidation continutes to happen, It was not exactly what I was expecting when Taleo announced their acquisition of Vurv. In…
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I4CP: Retaining Hi-Po’s
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The following was contributed by Erik Samdahl from the Institute for Corporate Productivity and highlights results from a recent stufy of theirs. The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), the…
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Taleo Goes Down Market
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“Recruiting and retaining talent is the number one challenge for SMBs, and job boards, Excel spreadsheets and Outlook fall short when it comes to competing for superior candidates,” said…
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“Talent” as Marketing?
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Seth Godin’s recent post on Talent and marketing HR hit home on may fronts. What if you started acting like the VP of Talent? Understanding that talent is hard…
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Competencies and Collaboration Models
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Does HR participate in the identifying who is in a project team and who collaborates? All too often, project teams are identified by people knowing other people and thinking…
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Rejected Applicants and External Brand
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Say you are Google. You have a few hundred thousand people sending you applications and resumes on a weekly basis. Therefore, you have to reject a few hundred thousand…
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Changing the Numbers Game
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Recruiting is an equation of numbers. So many candidates = so many applicants = so many interviews = so many new hires. This is a well known strategy in…
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Lawson – Moving Core HR to The Talent Suite
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Lawson’s introduction of their new Strategic HCM product heads into an interesting direction. I got the change to talk to Larry Dunivan at the Lawson CUE conference and also…
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Competencies are the Resource, Not Humans
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Human Resources. Are we? I’d suggest that we’re not. The building is a resource. The forklift too. You and I? I think not. We’re operators of resources. My theory…
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A Thumbs Up for Video Resumes
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The following was written by Colleen Aylward, Founder of InterviewStudio.com as a rebuttal to my unapologetically negative rant on video resumes. Every opinion has a counter and deserves to…
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What is Talent Management?
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JPIE wonders. I answer. Sort of. Hype aside. What is talent management? Software, services, software as a service – what? What components make up talent management? Applicant tracking, succession…
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How Do You Identify High Potential Employees?
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The Institute for Corporate Productivity (is there an institute for everything?) recently conducted a study on high potential employees and the practices of organizations around them. If you want…
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Queueing Theory and HR
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I’ve always been interested in business theory and its possible applications to HR. Unfortunately, many HR practitioners (or business practitioners for that matter) are not well educated in many…
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Is The Cornerstone of HR Job or Performance?
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HR is certainly changing. The trend over the last few years is that we are organizations focused on the strategic (over the administrative). This has manifested itself in numerous…