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    EE’s quit to seek relationships, balance and mission

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    In the “talent war” discussion, there is now even more room for concern. While we have always realized that growing retiree populations were decreasing the availability of senior talent, the development of young talent seems to be at risk as…

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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…

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    Job Quality vs. Job Quantity

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    Just a few days ago I wrote here about the impact of the poor U.S. educational system and the negative affect on talent in the near future (my wife tells me that my poor writing combined with my refusal to…

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    An Interview with Workstream

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    Workstream has always been one of my favorite vendors. They have great depth and breadth in their TMS suite, but their financials have plagued them. In the last year, their competitors have made strong market moves and gained momentum. I…

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    Talent Part 4 – What Does Talent Want?!?

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    Prior posts in this series Talent Part 1 – The Rules of Talent Talent Part 2 – HCI on Talent and Engagement Talent Part 2 – Talent Part 3 – Building Talent in Your Organization Yes… what do they want?…

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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…

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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…

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    TMS Automation Debate Revisited

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    There has been a bit too much debate on this topic not to bring it back in the new year. I think it really comes down to some of our fundamental philosophies on how we allow technology to impact our…

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    TMS (non) fiancials

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    I seem to have made the quite unwise statement that I would attempt to evaluate the financials of several TMS vendors. Realizing now that I should take that statement back (entirely possible with just a quick stroke of the keyboard)…

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    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…

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    Technology’s role in performance management

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    Workforce Performance Solutions Magazine had this article about technology’s role in performance management. I thought it a bit obtuse, but I’ll expand on my ideas below. I thought we were going to read about EPS systems and deployment. Instead the…

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    Authoria tops the TMS vendors?

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    In a rare show of self control, a vendor has incredible press that it doesn’t show off on it’s website. ***NOTE – I have been corrected. Sometimes the most obvious things are not readily apparent to me. The huge orange…

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    Employer branding, talent and engagement Part 3

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    So what does all of this have to do with HR Technology and service delivery? Employee Self Service/Portal Manager Self Service/Portal HR Service Center Print Communications I am a firm believer that while your verbal communications are your most powerful…

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    Employer branding, talent and engagement Part 2

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    So last time we talked about communicating brand and an overview of a chain of effect beginning with the manager communication and ending with the shareholder returns via the Microsoft model. Andrew posted a link to David Kippen. I found…

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    SuccessFactors TMS review

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    So after being told that my talent management “scorecard” was incomplete and inadequate, I visited one of the SuccessFactors webinars and got a high level overview. Keep in mind that the opinions here are simply those gained from a 1…

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    Wharton: The Trade-off between Talent and Disruptive Behavior.

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    OK – this is way outside of my comfort zone and expertise. However, Wharton pushed out a great article on the Tyrell Owens debate called ‘One for All’ or ‘One for One’? The Trade-off between Talent and Disruptive Behavior. There…

  • Success Factors TMS

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    Brent (of unknown origin) sent me a note about Success Factors: Hi. I’ve been looking at your blog as I’m doing research on talent management systems, and I noticed that SuccessFactors is not included anywhere. Is this because you don’t…

  • Selecting a Performance MS whitepaper

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    HR.com’s whitepaper by RecruitMax is an okay overview of selecting a PMS system. In my opinion, it was a bit functional in nature. Here are my highlights: Define expected outcomes: it was only one sentence, but keep in mind that…

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    SoftScape gets thumbs up from Gartner

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    Having gotten some (light) criticism in the past about not including SoftScape in my talent management roundup, here’s some good thoughts on them: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/sep/1180540.htm “Softscape, an industry leader in strategic people management technology and services, today announced that Softscape received…

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    And Kenexa too

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    This is more of a surprise than Authoria (last post before this). Kenexa was voted the top RPO. While I’m not sure who the competition was, I’m betting it includes the likes of Brassring and Recruitmax. Kenexa has not (to…