Talent
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Communicating with a Millennial
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I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand what I’ve been calling the millennials, others have been calling Gen Y. I think we all understand that there’s a significant change in the way this generation is looking at work…
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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…
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Employee Morale and Uncertainty
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The other day I was visiting a client site and was struck by how recent financial difficulties experienced by the client had impacted the workforce. As part of my job, I had to interview personnel at different levels, and as…
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Capturing Collaboration Networks in HR
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There’s much talk about collaboration networks these days. In truth, collaboration is how work gets done. Very few jobs require people to work in solitude to achieve their goals, and most work is best performed in either team environments or…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Globalization, Economic Scale, and Talent – The Realities of Asia
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Michael Specht pointed me at this video link where he drew out the following thought: “the 25% of China population with the highest IQ is larger than the total population of North America.” ((Specht, Michael, February 11, 2007. “The Growth…
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Sleep, Work-Life and Performance
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Many of us who read systematicHR are in the same situation. We’re good at what we do, we’re over-worked, we’re committed to achievement, and our employers expect us to succeed. It all boils down to one thing – most of…
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PeopleSoft Updates
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Much of this is old news, but a few interesting tidbits crossed my path and I thought I’d do a fuller update. Of main interest and something I didn’t really know until recently is that Oracle has actually integrated the…
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Learning and Gaming Technology: The Advantage of Simulations
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Efficiency and effectiveness are derived from three specific advantages that simulations have over the experience based learning. First, simulations eliminate risk and the painful consequences of poor decisions. Simulation has the ability to not just mitigate, but completely eliminate the…
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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…
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Educating for Innovation
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Once again, from the Talent UnConference (TalUnCon) hosted by Electronic Arts on January 25, 2006. ((From the Talent UnConference, January 25, 2007. Ideas expressed in this post may be directly attributed to the TalUnCon or might have been triggered by…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Prosperity Growth and the Satisfaction Gap
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Your grandfather probably worked to live. Your mother and father most likely fired to make a living. Your children will be working to define a life. – Jeff Hunter, 2006 ((Hunter, Jeff. October 31, 2006. “Economics to Identity.” Retrieved from…
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Engagement Insights From a Dumb Little Man
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Hey… Dumb Little Man is the name of his website, ok? Coming from a non HR practitioner he has some great insights about retaining engaging employees. In fact, I’d be impressed if some of these ideas came from HR practitioners…
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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…
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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”…