Talent Acquisition
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Taleo Version 7 – updates to my scorecard
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With Taleo’s next release, they regain my number one spot for Talent Acquisition vendors. While they’ve always been at or near the top of my list, Taleo has been slipping for a few years due to their inability to execute on a web services strategy. Basically they haven’t opened up their API’s to allow better…
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Recruitment Process Outsourcing for Healthcare
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I stumbled across this company, Pinstripe, that does RPO for healthcare. Now, I personally don’t really care one way or another about this specific company, but the concept of RPO for healthcare seems to be a troublesome idea for me to swallow. One of the major tenets behind RPO is that there should be the…
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Attraction and Retention vs. Cost Containment
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Deloitte and ISCEBS (International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists) recently pushed out their annual list of top 5 total rewards priorities for 2006Deloitte, 2006. “Top Five Total Rewards Priorities for 2006.” Retrieved from http://www.iscebs.org on January 31, 2006.. The group of individuals surveyed was ISCEBS members and Deloitte clients. Remember that the results are…
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Who’s an Internet Applicant? New OFCCP Rules
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ERE’s article on the new OFCCP rules for federal contractors outlines the recquirements that must be comlied with beginning today. Who’s an Internet Applicant? The individual submits an expression of interest in employment through the Internet or related electronic data technologies. The contractor considers the individual for employment in a particular position. The individual’s expression…
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The future of the ATS
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Dave Lefkow recently wrote about the future of TAS systems and I’d like to put my thoughts down as well. Here are his comments: Where the industry will go and the strategies successful vendors will employ are dependent on a lot of things. Will organizations invest in talent management? (My guess: yes, but not immediately)…
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Talent Part 3 – Building Talent in Your Organization
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Prior posts in this series” Talent Part 1 – The Rules of Talent Talent Part 2 – HCI on Talent and Engagement For part 3 of this series, I’m going to focus on building talent through talent acquisition and learning management. However, I’m not going to talk about them as separate and distinct processes. TA…
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Great Talent Acquisition Systems Insight
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A while back I posted a TAS vendor “review” of sorts. Obviously I’ve also been doing some research for my series on talent (Part 1 &2 here). In doing the research, I re-stumbled on some of Talentism’s previous writings taht definitely deserve to be dredged up from the archives. Here they are: 11 Thoughts on…
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Talent Part 2 – The Rules of Talent
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Talent Part 1 – HCI on Talent and Engagement As we pursue this discussion on Talent, it is important not to just focus on what it is (see part 1) but the entire framework and environment that surrounds our strategies for talent. For this I present an ERE article. Kevin Wheeler wrote about his 4…
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HR Marketing that actually makes sense!!!
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So Workstream.com has an offer out to Webhire.com clients to convert them at a “significant discount.” Business Wire, December 22, 2005. “Workstream Unveils WebHire Trade-in Program; Workstream Exchange Program Offers Displaced WebHire Customers Free Migration and Integration to Workstream Recruitment and TalentCenter Suite,” NewsEdge Corporation. Retrieved from http://workindex.com on December 27, 2005. “Workstream guarantees to…
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TAS Vendor Scorecard
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Well, I’ve done talent management scorecards a few times, but never talent acquisition. This is not really a scorecard or vendor functionality comparison. Here are my top 4 vendors and a few notes about them. This is not a review of functionality, just a purely subjective view on who I like and why. Taleo and…
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Data & Metrics, Engagement, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Talent Acquisition, Talent Mgmt, Workforce Mgmt
Technology, Automation, and Talent Case Studies
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I found this article in CFO Magazine’s online Fall 2005 issue. The full text is quite long and located here. It is a well written piece by Scott Leibs from September 15, 2005. Anything in block quotes below is a direct excerpt. There are so many good examples of everything we’ve been discussion over the…
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Tax Credit Screening (and a few $100K)
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A few days ago, I got an e-mail from someone requesting my thoughts on Projectix. The e-mail said, “I would say it [is a] TMS program. Wouldn’t you?” A few e-mail exchanges later, I basically said that it was not a TMS system, it was an TAS system. This was actually being nice because when…
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Google, Brand, Talent, Engagement
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It was all wrapped into a single post from one of Michael’s link posts. In this google blogger page where Trisha Weir talks about how she got to be hired (partly by selling WHY she owned a Google t-shirt) I have to give some kudos to the recruiter and hiring manager for recognizing a couple…
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Superior Staffing Performance
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There was no way I was paying over $2000 for this survey, but the high level key findings were readable. If you’re curious about a specific industry, then this might be for you. There were a couple of key findings that I thought were interesting. First, the creation of a talent pool to draw off…
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Talent Acquisition Metrics
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Here’s a PDF from Webhire. I found it interesting that manual recruiting processes and automated TAS were not significantly more different in the type and quality of the metrics they provide. In all honesty, I don’t think that this survey measured the “quality” of the metrics. For example, if we talk about measuring the cost…
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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 between Talent Acquisition Suites (TAS) and Talent Management Suites (TMS). They state that Peopleclick, Taleo…
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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 blog is about the technology that drives some of these things, but the actual experience…
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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 I think have excellent tools. Vendor 1: Consulting firms. To be honest, most of the…
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HRMS vs. Point Solutions… again
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I’ve written a few times that the day of the huge enterprise HRMS solution is over. PeopleSoft, SAP… they just don’t provide niche solutions that are as good as point solutions. So the recruiting tools in PS or SAP for example, don’t compare to Virtual Edge, Recruitmax, or Taleo. Then I think about the growth…
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Recruiting to Onboarding
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Andrew has a very nice write-up on measuring the recruitment experience through the entire recruiting experience and then the first year of employment. One of the other new buzwords besides “talent” is “onboarding.” Onboarding is not only the new hire experience. It is everything that happens from the moment an offer letter is extended to…