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Intellectual Property and Competencies
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I was chatting with a good friend of mine whose company does work with organizations to analyze the value of ongoing IP and R&D. Ardent Research looks at current…
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CedarCrestone Pulse Update
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CedarCrestone recently updated their annual HRIT survey covering the trends in HR budgets. It’s especially interesting right now as the economy swings down. There is obviously much more content…
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Problems with Wellness?
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I’ve listened to radio shows where the host clearly knows she is on the wrong side of mass opinion. In fact, they are probably not on the wrong side…
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HR Metrics: Dismissal rate
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So the organization or parts of it are dismissing too many people. You think to yourself, “why is my recruiting so bad that I get crap people?” I suppose…
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Most Admired?
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Hay Group presented the findings from an exclusive HR-specific recalibration of Fortune magazine’s Most Admired Companies rankings, as well as key business practices that distinguish these companies from their…
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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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Get Rid of the Performance Review
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The Wall Street Journal had a wonderful article a couple months ago arguing why the performance review is not advantageously contributing to overall productivity for a number of various…
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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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The White Space Behind the Org Chart
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In the last year I have had a few posts on Workday’s redesign of the organization structure in their HCM application. They have done a great job at giving…
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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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So, do you really want to know what your consultant thinks?
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As we all know, many consultants are simply “yes men.” They tell you exactly what you either want to hear, or already know. In many cases, there is really…
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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…