Talent Acquisition
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The Decline of Corporate Elitism
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When I was a kid, I always hoped and dreamed that I would get into one of those Ivy League schools. Unfortunately, I was a disaster of a student (and a ridiculously undisciplined Asian student to boot). Yes, I had…
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HR Technology Conference 2014: Recruiting System Thoughts
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Overall, this year was one of the best years in a while for the vendor and show floor. In my opinion, there were some significant areas where technology has finally started catching up with vision, and it was happening on…
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All Posts, Analytics and Big Data, Big Data, Cloud, Data & Metrics, Features, Talent, Talent AcquisitionBig Data For HR & Recruiting: 2 Use Cases
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Forget about Google. One of the world’s favorite sites has got to be LMGTFY.com. “Let me google that for you.” With the wondrous world of the internet and ubiquitous information, ubiquitous access through our mobile devices, and ubiquitous connectivity, whenever…
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Blogging, Branding, HR Strategy, HR Strategy and Technology, Social, Social Talent, Talent, Talent Acquisition, Work LifeThe Permanent Record
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Perhaps it was because I’m Chinese American and my Chinese parents were rather crazed about education. I did graduate high school with a 4.2 GPA and considered myself an academic failure (still do in fact). My parents used to threaten…
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The Social Recruiting Process: What You Need to Know
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Techniques being used to find and hire talent have changed significantly in the last few years and it’s quickly moving toward a social process. According to a survey from Jobvite, 92% of companies in the US used social platforms for recruiting…
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Recruiting Engagement
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So, I used to write this blog for me. Honestly, I could have cared less that anyone was reading it. It has been a great exercise for almost 6 years – forcing me to continuously thing and read and research. …
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Behavioral Non-Interviews
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Remembering back to college admissions days (which many of you might have kids going through that right now), one of the best parts of the whole process is doing the college tour thing and doing interviews at the various prospective schools. For 4 year…
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Recruiting Effectiveness Measurement
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Last post I wrote about recruiting efficiency measures. From the effectiveness side, we’re all used to things like first year turnover rates and performance rates. Once again, we’ve been using these metrics forever, but they don’t necessarily measure actual effectiveness. …
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Recruiting Efficiency Measurement
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If you look through Saratoga, there are all sorts of metrics around measuring our HR operations. For recruiting, these include all the standard metrics like cost/hire, cost/requisition, time to fill, fills per recruiter, etc. Unfortunately, I’m not a fan of…
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Using RSS Feeds in Recruiting
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I have a friend who has his own consulting business was describing some pretty cool RSS functionality he’s been using. One of his customers has an order system that gets input into theirs salesforce.com system. Each night, any orders get…
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Taleo versus SuccessFactors
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At the end of 2009, Bersin did a great analysis of the two organizations that I can’t really beat. It’s a nice objective and score by score view of the vendors that is based in good factual data, and I’m…
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HR Leadership Selection
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I’ve been talking lately about how individual contributors are not always the best leaders. Here, Jeff Hunter talks about why sometimes the individual contributor can become a great executive, and some of the problems they must overcome to get there….
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Defining Mobility
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Talent is actually pretty tricky. We seem not only to have problems defining talent and talent application components, but we seem to not know what some of those components even are. I’m no making sense yet? As anyone what are…
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Employee Selection and Workforce Diversity: Are Current Tools Up To The Task?
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Guest Author: Stephen B. Jeong, Ph.D. Hispanics, African Americans, Asians and Native Americans now constitute more than one-third of the U.S. population. By 2042, they are projected to make up nearly one-half of all Americans. Given these rapidly changing demographics—and…
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Market Salary Rates
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The HR Capitalist had a post the other day about pricing candidate salaries. But as usual, I have my own opinions. Say it with me – the market rate for any candidate is the $$ amount they will accept. They’ve…
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HRO is not Dead
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HRO has seemed dead for at least a couple of years now. A couple years ago it was almost all I was writing about, and there were mega deals to be had every other month. All consultants were talking about…
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The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Recruiting
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A few days ago, my fellow compatriot Jason Corsello wrote about Gartner’s new magic quadrant. I’ve actually looked upon the Gartner magic quadrants with some disdain in the last few years, not because of any perceived lack of validity, thoroughness…
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Recruiting Dubious Talent
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Here is what the NY Times had to say about AIG executives and bonuses a few weeks ago: Now we can debate why A.I.G. felt it necessary to guarantee seven executives at least $3 million apiece when the economy was…