Talent
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What’s wrong with Talent Management – Part 2
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Don’t we all love competencies? I’ll admit that understanding them is critical to managing a workforce as part of an HR strategic plan. However, the linkage of competencies to talent acquisition and learning is insufficient when thought of as a business strategy. Until competencies are tied to broader collaboration, project planning and knowledge management strategies…
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What’s wrong with Talent Management – Part 1
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Let’s think about this. Evaluating performance is a good thing, right? So as an HR practitioner (and being realistic about it), how many organizations do you know that apply performance well? How many performance plans have you seen where the performance process actually impacts increases in engagement and productivity? Let’s face it, performance management is…
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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 well. If younger employees are culturally resisting engagement (paritally defined as a willingness to allocate…
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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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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 proof read is exemplary of this crisis). My basic premise was that the gradual decline…
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Talent Vaccuum – the next generation
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Granted I’m playing up to all the sensationaliztic reports on talent and the U.S.’s inability to create an effective educational plan and environment to be competitive globally, I’m posting this commentary on workforce planning anyway. I was reading an article in the LA times that pointed to a school where the dropout rate of students…
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Time to reconstruct HR practices, approach
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I was reading this commentary on HR practices basically not living up to expectations and thought I’d deliver my rebuttal. (Financial Express article here – pop-up warning if you follow the link) Mr. Reddy argues that: Veterans in the field have also noticed the scientific basis of HR practice giving way to ill-fitting fashion, fad…
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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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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 recently had the opportunity to speak with Kevin Dobbs (Senior Vice President, Marketing and Business…
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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 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? And once we figure that out, how do we give it to them? So, does…
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Shrinking Workforce is Good for Technology Revisited
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Last week I posted Shrinking Workforce is Good for Technology and got a couple interesting comments. I thought this interesting enough to bring back to the foreground. First off, the post was really not about the HR effects of the decline in the workforce as baby boomers retire, but around the Economist’s social commentary that…
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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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Shrinking Workforce is Good for Technology
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We’ve been talking about the workforce “crisis” and the drian of senior talent as baby boomers retire in droves. I thought I’d present another viewpoint – this one from the Economist. The crucial question is therefore what the effect of demographic decline is on the growth of GDP per person. The bad news is that…
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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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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 work and lives … how much control we actually give it. More discussion here: My…
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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…