systematicHR
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eRecruitment Market Trends
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Thank you Gartner!!!! One of my pet peeves over the last year has been ATS systems calling themselves talent management applications. Anyone reading my posts knows this bugs me to no end. Gartner’s eRecruitment white paper clearly states a difference…
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Talent Management searches are up
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This is actually a very poor polling technique, but it does at least show that companies are thinking about talent management. Unfortunately, I have no idea what people mean when they say talent management. To me, TM is a complete…
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KPMG does not know the difference between DB and DC?
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Well, we all know there is a HUGE difference between accountants and actuaries. (Do I need to tell any actuary jokes?) But this press release is a rather harsh example of why a good HR consulting firm lime Mercer, Towers…
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Generation gap and learning
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I was sitting at my brother and sister-in-law’s house last night and the conversation turned to their teenage son. He was sitting in front of the computer playing some shoot and kill video game with some friends on-line. Remembering the…
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Hyperion BI certifies on SAP Netweaver
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Recently I wrote about BI software and forgot to put in Hyperion. Here’s a press release from Hyperion and their SAP partnership. Hyperion’s new center of excellence located at the SAP headquarters will allow them to provide SAP specific development…
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State of the Industry – Portal
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When I talk about portals, I’m talking about an HR portal – not the enterprise portal. Portal is not synonymous with employee and manager self service – portals indicate another level of technology. Here’s a good portal explanation from a…
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The candidate experience
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You know – sometimes I talk so much about the technology of how things work, that I feel like I’m giving the wrong imprssion of what’s actually important. Andrew makes a nice point regarding the candidate experience here. Granted my…
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State of the Industry – HRMS
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As a consumer organization, this is just a terrible time to be on the market for an HRMS system. There is a huge void in the mid-range that PeopleSoft used to fill adequately. Here’s my top vendors for the space:…
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Off-topic for me – 401(k) plans
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Since I work for one of the major HR consulting firms, I heard this statistic and didn’t believe it. Then I saw it written on BLR.com. (ok – now you know I don’t work for Hewitt – and no, I…
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The technology of “Offboarding”
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Yup – so we’re all familiar with onboarding now. (if not, scroll down and read a bit). Terminating employees has never gotten too much press aside from COBRA, HIPAA, getting your property back and exit interviews. However, just as there…
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HR Service Delivery, Call Centers, and Outsourcing
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So how does an organization actually improve HR service delivery? What is HR Service Delivery? Quite simply it’s the ability and effectiveness with which an employer delivers key services and information to employees, managers, and executives. For an employee, if…
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Times have changed (salaries)
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When I got out of college, not only were starting average salaries much lower, but it was just a bad time to be looking for a job. The fact that new accounting graduates can expect to get almost $44,000 is…
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Outsourcing vs. Data Privacy
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I stumbled across this article on data privacy and what problems outsourcers are having. My general opinion is that even with the heightened awareness we have in the U.S. about data privacy and identity theft, HR organizations have not really…
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Onboarding Part 3: Vendors
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I’ll be honest, I totally forgot I was supposed to write a part 3. Thanks to an anonymous commenter to remind me. I’m not going to do a complete review at this time, but simply highlight a few vendors that…
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Indian HRM Quiz and other offshoring topics
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Mercer HR had this quiz. What do you know about Indian HRM? (4 questions only) Since we (U.S.) are so concerned (wrongly so) about the Indians and Chinese taking jobs away, perhaps we should know more about the these economies……
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Co-sourcing vs. Outsourcing
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Mercer published this definition and contrast of Co-sourcing versus Outsourcing on their website. I must beg to differ. While in general they are correct, the term co-sourcing has been around for a long time – probably originally coined by Mercer….
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Mid-market subscription based HRMS
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I saw a press release about Sapien providing subscription based, hosted HRMS solutions to the mid-market. They are calling it “self provisionin” which sounds like a bad marketing ploy to me, but generally, the strategy is worth looking at. Dave’s…
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Wal Mart on par with Tier 1 HR Consulting Firms
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I feel like I’ve been theorizing too much. Here are a few interesting things I’ve seen in the news over the last couple of days: HRMarketer.com HR Industry Trends reports the top HR industry newsmakers as Mercer, Towers Perrin, Hewitt,…
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Technology and Cultural Effects
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This from Knowledge@Wharton describes the effects of technology on culture. I’m posting it to continue the discussion on work life balance that Michael Specht started. From 1985 until the present, we have been reacting against our earlier self-centeredness by turning…