HR Technology
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HR Metrics: Resignation rate
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I would have to think that resignation rates are pretty low right now. When companies are laying off employees and security and new jobs are hard to come by, employees are thinking much harder before leaving their employer. Usually we think of the resignation rate being a factor of the employer brand and manager capability. …
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What is portal?
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I mean really, we have these things called portals that are mostly transactional self service engines these days. But we at least realize there is potential for so much more. Instead of allowing employee and manager look-ups and transactions, we’ve been realizing that the portal can be the launching point for employer branding and communications,…
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HR Metrics: Turnover Rate
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Honestly, I could really care less about turnover rate the way most organizations calculate it. Sure, it informs me a little bit regarding the employer brand, and perhaps about the organization’s competitiveness against the market, but overall, turnover can be used much more effectively. Most turnover reports consist of organizational and departmental turnover with terminations…
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HR Metrics: Contractor fill rates
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So you probably have a specific number of independent contractors, consultants and agency employees within your organization. You also probably have not really given much thought around what percentage of your total population these contractors represent. The reason this is important is because this percentage actually impacts the organization’s ability to scale and respond to…
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SuccessFactors Results
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It will be interesting to see what the SuccessFactors executives say on their 4th quarter performance results, and even more so for their projections for 2009. Given that they just did an across the board layoff ((I don’t have direct knowledge, but the word on the street was that they did 20% across the board))…
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HR Metrics: External recruitment rate
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Feb 4 The external recruitment rate is important because it informs of the organization’s ability to provide growth opportunities for employees and alternatively to infuse new ideas from outside the organization. Both of these concepts are important, and the desired rate for any organization is dependent on the strategic objectives. Organizations that pride innovation may…
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LinkedIn Talent Advantage
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LinkedIn is expanding it’s corporate recruiting functionality today with Talent Advantage. Really, all of the functionality is old stuff that has been rebranded. There is a new “Custom Company Profile” which I think has existed in one form or another for some time, but now has new functionality for employer branding and some cool algorythms…
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HR Metrics: Competency fill rates
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By now, many of our organizations have competency assignments for each candidate and employee within the organization. Along with those competency assignments you probably have skill levels for each competency. Assigning a numerical value to each competency level, we should be able to quantify the total aggregate level of any given competency within the organization. …
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HR Metrics: Quality of Hire
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All too often, we talk about the quality of hire measured by a new employee’s first performance review. We like to correlate this metric back to the source of hire, business units, recruiters, etc to identify who is doing the best job so we can replicate those results in other parts of the business. The…
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Recruiting CRM’s
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There seems to be a fairly significant movement from recruiting as an applicant tracking system to a relationship management system. At this point, I’m advocating recruiting CRM’s in some niche areas of talent acquisition. The idea behind the recruiting CRM is that in recruiting in general, you best candidates are the passive candidates – those…
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HR Metrics: Offer Accept Rate
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Last time I looked for a job, I had three offers. Each of these offers were with very similar organizations, with very similar offer packages, and with exactly the same type of work. What actually made the difference? It was all about the value proposition. In retrospect, whether I made the right decision will never…
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Workday Update
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Being that Workday is announcing their Fall 2008 update today, I figured it was a s good a time as any to get this site back up and running again. As probably the most hyped vendor in the HR space this year, they have still had impressive growth with 67 current total clients and 35…
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Large Investments in Technology
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Perhaps I’m just a nerd, but I’ve been following the developments of the Hadron Collider for a while now. In terms of physics, there have been many theories abounding, but with the lack of ability to look into the tiniest known particles within an atom and see how they re/act, it’s quite impossible to find…
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The History and Future of HR Technology
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The history of HR technologies has for many years been about functionality. We have been increasing functionality levels for a couple of decades now. Even the recent robust growth of talent management applications has been about functionality. Vendors are fighting in a competition to have a “complete talent management suite” and adding functional components in…
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The Singularity
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What is “the singularity?” It’s basically the Terminator movie in practice. The singularity predicts that there is a point where computers become so intelligent that they are able to self replicate, they are able to generate knowledge at a supremely faster rate than humans can, and that eventually humans become unnecessary. There are a couple…
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Cycling Concepts and HR: It’s Not About the Bike
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I’m most certainly an advocate that the greatest, most expensive bike you can buy simply must make you faster. You’ll obviously climb better, sprint faster, ride longer. I support this model by having a very nice bike, custom built by one of the world’s best welders of titanium, built to my exact specifications. I even…
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Social Media, Gen Y and the Workplace
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Michael Specht linked over to some survey results presented by Microsoft and Insurity. There were a couple of interesting findings and in my opinion they certainly do point to our need to change how the workplace operates, not only for Gen Y, but also for the sake of business growth and overall collaboration. To simply…
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Cycling Concepts and HR: Time Trials
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In cycling, the time trial is also known as the race of truth. It is the only time in cycling (triathlons excluded as that’s not real cycling…) where you are not allowed to draft or engage in team tactics. In the time trial, it’s all about you and your abilities. In HR, there are some…
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The Realities of Integrated UI
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Anu posted this image of simplicity for user interface designs. While it’s a bit of a caricature on how Apple and Google have designed their UI’s, it’s really quite accurate at a basic level. Everything you need to do is in one single step. I’ve spent quite a bit of time sitting around on systematicHR…
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Cycling Concepts and HR: Drafting
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There are actually quite a few HR bloggers who are also cyclists. Thomas Otter is a leading candidate, as are the other Systematic and Jeff Hunter. I’ll also join the cyclist crew, although not nearly as gung-ho as I used to be. Consider the following posts to be an ode to cycling and the 2008…