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    Watson Wyatt weighs in on Bush’s Social Security plan

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    In an unexpectedly objective move for an actuarial service, Watson Wyatt released oppositionary opinions on W’s private accounts for Socual Security, one for and one against. Unexpected for me because I figured actuaries would weigh in on my side of…

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    Top 5 HR priorities from Genesys survey

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    Take this with a grain of salt as this is a Genesys press release and these “trends” may just be application areas they are strong in. http://www.genesyshcm.com/Docs/news/trends_survey_results-pr.html I’ve never paid too much attention to Genesys until recently as I’ve considered…

  • Pensions vs. 401(k)?

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    http://www.benefitnews.com/retire/detail.cfm?id=7267 With continuing problems around 401(k), are pensions really dead? Consumers are increasingly aware of problems investing for retirement income. Between employees not having any sophistication or investing savvy, employer HR organizations not wanting to provide investment advice (not that…

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    Talenteering?

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    Collaborative Hiring Talenteering from Hire.com All in all, a great post on how the staffing organization should be integrated to the actual operating arm of an organization. I’m not sure this is so new though. In the last 20 years…

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    Big beautiful HRMS ain’t so beautiful anymore

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    Yup, the day of the massive ERP suite and a huge, built-out HRMS system is dead. In HR, we now back to the modularized applications, but this time around, we can effectively tie everything together on the back end and…

  • IBM wants recurring revenue

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    Interesting comment at the bottom of the IBM/Corio news release: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7925372&type=technologyNews IBM has closed a $182 million deal to buy Corio, which delivers software online, and plans to pick up the pace of acquisitions to fuel growth in its mainstay…

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    How to Choose and Implement an ATS

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    I picked this up from “Andrew’s strategic resourcing blog.” Considering my incoherent ATS post below, I thought I’s push it out as well since there’s some great vendor selection stuff in there. Thanks!!

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    RecruitMax pushing the envelope

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    RecruitMax Article Really randome thought here… One of these days I’ll write quite a bit more about my opinions on ATS/HMS (applicant tracking or hiring management) or whatever you want to call it. For now, I wanted to comment on…

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    Mellon HRO purchased by ACS???

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    ACS Deal For Mellon Unit Shows HR Outsourcing’s On A Roll My first thought was “who the heck is ACS?” Word on the street was that Watson Wyatt was the front runner for the Mellon deal. I guess Wyatt didn’t…

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    What’s up with HRO vendors?

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    The human resource outsourcing industry may be the fastest growth segment of BPO. However, the US HRO (HR BPO) market is in complete dissaray. Nobody has the entire service offering put together in a package that provides functionality and service…