Talent Acquisition
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Recruiting Recruiters as a Leading Economic Indicator
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There was some serious conversation at the Talent UnConference (TalUnCon) hosted by Electronic Arts on January 25. Specifically, the Talent Planning sessions focused on understanding economic indicators as it applied to workforce planning. However, a very interesting though came up when we turned the conversation around and discussed recruiting as an economic indicator instead. This…
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Analytics: Linking Silos, Linking Strategy
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There was a question posed on the web a while back (I’m hard pressed to find it) asking what linkages were important to the performance of an HR organization. I’m equally hard pressed to think of an instance where integrated data and analytics is not critical to an organization’s overall health and direction setting activities.…
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Quantifying Talent
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Sean over at Talent Ecology recently wrote a piece that got me thinking about how we think and process our talent, nut just as people but as distinct sets of competencies. After new accounting rules for property went into effect in 2003, about $325.1 billion in military equipment appeared on the books for the first…
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The Best Places to Launch a Career
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Andrew from Resourcing Strategies wrote this a while back in September of 2006, but then again, I’m about that far behind on my reading. Why do I get excited about where a great place to work and “launch a career” would be for a new grad? Because it gets down to the core of your…
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Attraction versus Retention
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I’ve always stated that while cash compensation and benefits might be the largest factors for attracting talent, they are by no means the factors for which employees stay with the organization. In order to have high employee retention you have to have great employee engagement and a solid employer brand (or employee value proposition). Looks…
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The Applicant Decision Process
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So how does someone actually decide to work for you? What is that process and how can knowing about it be leveraged to your advantage? Knowing the step can help you tailor your recruiting process and capitalize on your strengths. Job Dissatisfaction or Need Recognition Unfortunately most job seekers are out there because there are…
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Recruiting The Different Types of Job Seekers
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There are many types of job seekers, and knowing which you’re recruiting for can make your job attracting the right applicants and getting them through to the offer process much easier. Here’s a profile of 3 major types. The High Maintenance Job Seeker High maintenance job seekers tend to increase when the stakes are higher. …
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Predictions of M&A and Employee Acquisition
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There are many reasons companies buy or merge with other companies. Sometimes, you just want more market share and it’s easier to buy it that to grow organically. Other times you want to acquire products or expand into new market segments that your current product mix does not represent. More and more however, I think…
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ADP Acquires Virtual Edge Talent Acquisition
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In a great move by ADP, they finally got their hands on a great talent acquisition system. Truthfully, they have been on the hunt for several years, but the deals seemed to keep falling through. This time though, ADP struck gold with a TAS that has great technology, great functionality, and is priced better than…
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Talent Acquisition Systems Updates
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I’ve been remiss in my lack of system and vendor updates. Truth be told, not much has actually changed in the vendor landscape other than a few mergers. The vendors I liked last year and early this year are the same ones. Anyways, here’s my update of tier 1 talent acquisition system vendors (in alpha…
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About Stretchwork and Career Management
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Julia Hanna recently wrote about the use of stretchwork applied to career advancement in the August 9 issue of HBS Working Knowledge. Stretchwork has been a tool utilized by performance management professionals for ages. In truth, we in HR have known about stretchwork long before the academics decided to study it. The concept of stretchwork…
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Recruiting to Talent Management Integration
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Here starts another series, this time on integration and in response to a rather surprising showing of interest in Performance Management Integration back in early August. In this series, I’ll be covering not only the reasons why integration is critical, but also what components to think about. First on the list is recruiting to talent…
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Performance Management Integration
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Jim Holincheck recently wrote about some findings from HR Executive’s survey of performance management practices. I’m not surprised that performance management is still on the rise – undoubtedly it will be on the rise for quite some time as new installations keep growing and eventually upgrades and replacements of systems will feed the vendors. It’s…
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An Interview With SuccessFactors
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I had an opportunity to speak with Rob Bernshteyn from SuccessFactors about the direction they are heading. I’ll admit that SuccessFactors has been one of my favorite talent management vendors for a long time. I have always thought of them as having excellent functionailty and technology. Their data center and application delivery from a technology…
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Is Talent Management Strategic?
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Talent Management in and of itself is not a strategic function. Similar to core HR practices, the actual task and process isn’t strategic. One should be especially careful with Talent Management Systems (TMS). No system (TMS, HRMS, or anything else) can make you and your organization strategic. However, the philosophy you develop around the task…
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Talent Management System Vendor List
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Stumbled across one of the longest lists of talent management vendors I’ve seen. To be honest, I don’t know many of these. As many of you know, I don’t consider recruiting only solutions to be talent management (TMS), but a sub-class of talent acquisition (TAS). Anyway, the TAS vendors are included in the list.
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Social Networks in HRIT
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Are we all really six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon? Yes Are there other uses of social networking other than Kevin Bacon? Yes Can HRIT employ social networks into their strategy? No Social networks are an informal version of the business networking that many of us do, which in turn is a less formal…
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Online Dating Applied to HR Technology
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Sometimes there’s a post so thought provoking it just begs to be blogged: In my last post I wrote that online dating services would show us where online recruiting was headed. I believe this to be the case because they are both expressions of the same basic problem: how do I find a person who…
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HR Technology Functional Utilization
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Looking at CedarCrestone (of Cedar Group fame) and their survey of HCM applications, it’s interesting to see the trends of what everyone is using, what they will be using, and how these trends debunk current myths and assumptions we (or I) may have about the marketplace. First, it’s incredibly surprising to me that training enrollment…
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Authoria Introduces Recruiting
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Authoria Recruiting is big news simply because it expands the reach of the talent management suite. Most vendors claiming to be TMS have either been talent acquisition without the rest, or talent management without the aquisition. Recruitmax was the notable exception for a long time, but with Kenexa buying WebHire, Authoria releasing Authoria Recruiting, Taleo…