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Recruiting Effectiveness Measurement
Read more: Recruiting Effectiveness MeasurementLast post I wrote about recruiting efficiency measures. From the effectiveness side, we’re all used to things like first year turnover rates and performance rates. Once again, we’ve been using these metrics forever, but they don’t necessarily measure actual effectiveness. You’d like to think that quality of hire metrics tells us about effectiveness, but I’m…
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ADP v. Ceridian
I’ve been pretty clear in past posts regarding my preference for ADP over Ceridian. I have also been clear that Ceridian has more robust HR services. The market seems to agree with me, and if I take a guesstimate, 25% of the U.S. Fortune 2000 outsources payroll and/or HR to ADP, and only 5% does…
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Web services and non-integration
This article found on the Harvard Business School website speaks to the failure of web services and the trouble of integration. These days, rather than doing large integration projects, we’re using portals to bring single views to users, but avoiding having a huge integrated database with 100% of the data in one spot. For reporting,…
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Workforce planning and best practices
All this talk about talent management. Basically, to dig through the confusion, break it up into 2 components: Talent Acquisition, and Talent Retention. Obviously you can break these 2 areas up to many other sub-functions. Today, I’m talking about workforce planning, something I’ve been building up to for some time. Workforce planning can also be…
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Management capabilities and catalysts for business innovation
This article found on the Harvard Business School website really addresses the capabilities of management and their ability to apply real change to the organization. As competition intensifies, organizations must look at strategic partnerships to ensure they have the capabilities required, even if these capabilities may not exist within the core organization. These strategic partnerships…
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Hosted point solutions take advantage of weakness in ERP/HRMS market
There’s some serious movement in the hosted and integrated point solutions arena. Mostly I’m talking about Workstream, Kenexa, RecruitMax and Authoria. All of these solutions are offering portal oriented employee talent solutions. Each of these 4 vendors are also organizations I like a lot. What is an integrated talent management point solution? Well, first of…
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Workforce Planning – how not to do it
I was reading an LA Times article about teenagers not being able to get jobs. Seems that employers are attempting to hire more experienced people. Looking at the current demographic situation in the U.S. and probably other places in the world, a huge portion of the employable workforce is about to retire, taking knowledge, management,…
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Another new HR Blog
***Edited*** Another New HR Blog. Looks like decent content for now. I’ve been surprised how much content is coming out of India. Perhaps I should actually say that I’m surprised at the small proportion of HR content that I read and enjoy is coming out of the U.S. The large majority of my reading is…
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How to make outsourcing work for you
An HR.com article written by a Dave Carlson from Mercer HR notes that “Teaming up with a compatible partner can make a tough job easier .“ (unfortunately you need $200 to get access to the actual article) However, my rebuttal is that all the current HRO studies (the very current ones) are stating that satisfaction…
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Female leaders deserve better
I was quite dismayed at this post on the Future of Work blog. The post is based on a link to a Matt Miller article from the New Your Times. In it, Mr. Miller makes some interesting points: If the most interesting and powerful jobs are too consuming, Jody says, then whydon’t we re-engineer these…
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Four Big Lies About Offshoring
I’ve written about this before, but here’s some validation for me. I’m not going to re-print the text, you can hit the link, but here are the 4 big lies. While you read the article, think: offshoring=trade, because that’s all it really is. Lie Number One: Offshoring is a Threat to American Economic ProsperityLie Number…