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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…