Talent Acquisition
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College Recruiting: What Are You Paying For?
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I’ve always been a fan of the theory that a 4 year bachelors degree means almost nothing. Having gotten a degree in business administration, finance, Economics, or philosophy amount to almost the same thing as someone enters the workforce. Let’s say a person enters a job in pharmaceutical sales. Were any of the degrees going…
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The Top Role of Brand in Recruitment
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A recent Tom Peters entry criticizes the characterization of the “war for talent” as a competitive endeavor as opposed to an internal problem. He’s right, but this is nothing new. The HR world including systematicHR has long been talking about the importance of the EVP or employer brand in attracting and retaining employees. It’s true…
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Creating the Employment Brand
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Earlier this year, John Sullivan wrote a great piece on employment branding that I thought I would bring back to life. In it, he describes some great steps to creating a brand as well as advertising that brand once developed. I’d like to highlight just a couple of points here and then send you along…
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Your Workforce Bench Strength
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Jason Corsello has one of the most effective illustrations of workforce depth that I’ve seen. Every NFL team has a depth chart. Most are listed on their team’s website including the New England Patriots here. Every position on the team is critical and has a depth chart of at least three players plus a pool…
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Labor Shortages: Myth and Reality
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There are two types of labor shortages currently under examination. The first is a shortage in the current labor supply, and then there’s the much feared future labor supply that is projected as the large population of Baby Boomers retire and fewer Gen X and Gen Y employees enter the workforce to fill those same…
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Does Talent Management Create Culture?
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Ron Lawrence writes in CLOmedia.com that HR shape a company’s culture by finding and developing talent. I’m having a hard time buying into that. My answer to the question “does talent management create culture?” is simply: “no.” In reality, creating a high-performing company depends on finding and hiring the right people, then nurturing, developing and…
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Choosing the Right Talent Strategy to Drive Profits
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So how much does it cost to drive up revenues by 1%? There are many possibilities including: Cost of acquiring new talent versis: Cost of developing new talent Cost of rewards versus: Cost of 1% increase in engagement So which of these has the largest actual impact to the bottom line? It’s not as if…
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An Interview with HR Smart
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A while back, I had the opportunity to speak with HR Smart, a talent management software vendor and service provider. As with many vendors, HR Smart has had applicant tracking since 1996 and they have been slowly building a suite of talent products around that ever since. The conversation intrigued me mostly because they have…
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What is SuccessFactors Doing?
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It’s probably time for me to get back on the phone with these guys and poke around a bit. After all, it has been a very long while since my last official conversation with them as the writer and publisher of systematicHR. Until then, Bill Kutik’s excellent analysis of his impressions from their user conference…
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Workstream Talent Update
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The mid-market is an interesting place to be. Depending on how you define that market, it is either a place where services and products are converging, or is grossly underserved. My take is that the mid market is somewhere around 2500 employees to perhaps 15K employees. This is sort of the sweet spot to me…
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Recruiting and Selecting Salespeople
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It would be absurd for me to tell you how to attract salespeople. So I won’t. Sales is so highly specialized based on the target markets, the product mix, the region that very few tactics are universal. However, Gallup has apparently found some common traits that all successful salespeople have some degree of. Gallup interviewed…
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Web 2.0 Networks and HR
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This is an increasingly featured topic on this site. Innovation networks and collaboration networks are of great interest to the business community because it ties together how work and product actually gets done. Sure we have our formal organizational hierarchies, and we have process flow charts that rout our activities to each other, but the…
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Taleo Love Fest (But…)
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Jason wrote about Taleo a few weeks ago, and in a rare moment I completely agree. Actually, I usually do agree with Jason which is a bit disappointing since I like picking fights. My only concerns with Taleo are 1) they are showing up late to the broader talent management party and 2) talent management…
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Interviewing’s Best Answers
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There’s a blogspot site out there with the “best” answers to the 64 most common interview questions. I remember each time I ever went looking for a job (or when jobs came looking for me) that before I’d go in for interviews, I always made sure I knew what my personal philosophies were on a…
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Google Talent Acquisition innovations
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The NY Times ran an article about Google using a new algorithm to search through their 100,000 resumes they receive every month. Initially I was really excited to read this thinking there was going to be an incredibly innovative new thinking here, but my conclusion is that other than an algorithm that they developed, the…
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Who will own performance management?
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Dave Lefkow asks “who will own performance management?” I have several responses. Finally, a talent acquisition guy who realizes that talent management is not just recruiting. For ages, the talent acquisition vendors have been calling themselves talent management. Sure, it’s a component, but you don’t see companies like SuccessFactors suggesting that their performance product is…
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Google’s Ten Golden Rules For Talent
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It’s hard not to be enamored with certain technologies. The truly cutting edge personalized nature of web 2.0 is easy to adopt. My personal favorites are Google products, Firefox, and the engine of this site, WordPress. The reason is that these products are truly extensible from various standpoints. Not only are these products impressive, but…
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Does Recruiting Software Make HR More Effective?
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Alana Post recently wrote some biting criticism of HR technology, most specifically recruiting software. ((Since the post has been removed, I won’t go into specifics other than to say that her post was extremely interesting to me and I’ll try to hit the high points without revealing anything she may have decided to keep private.)) …
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The Role of the Recruiter
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A couple weeks about I wrote about technology being a more powerful source of job loss as compared to outsourcing. This was picked up by the Recruiting Animal with a question: “Will Automation Kill Recruiting?” My thought is that automation won’t kick recruiting, but perhaps there’s some other form of change in the works. I…
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Universum Survey of New Graduate Preferences
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There’s a lot more to the Universum survey that I have time to go into or interpret including top employer brands cut into multiple categories and such. What I found most interesting was their cut on the new graduate goals for work. Easily, the highest ranking career goal was the desire for balance between personal…