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Recruiting Efficiency Measurement
Read more: Recruiting Efficiency MeasurementIf you look through Saratoga, there are all sorts of metrics around measuring our HR operations. For recruiting, these include all the standard metrics like cost/hire, cost/requisition, time to fill, fills per recruiter, etc. Unfortunately, I’m not a fan of most of these metrics. They give us a lot of data, but they don’t tell…
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Questionable truth in marketing
Not to be a naysayer, but sometimes cool things bug me the wrong way when I’m pretty sure the message is a lie. Today, Skillsoft and Plateau Systems are introducing the “first” integrated LMS and LCMS to be available later this year. First of all, I’m pretty sure they are not the first to provide…
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Dave Duffield’s next move
Dave got his Chairman’s award at the IHRIM conference on Monday. Here’s the link for his next start-up. Not much content there yet.
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Fortune 500 list is out
As usual, ADP is up there. They are really one of the only HR services firms big enough to be on the list. With $7.7 billion in revenues, they are around #250 (I’m guessing – have not bought the issue). On the data services list, they are #5, and they also usually rank #1 most…
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Time & Labor Management and tracking your key EE metrics
You know, I never talk much about labor management (because payroll and timekeeping is boring), but here’s a great example. If we take a quick inventory of our major systems, we have: Core HR Payroll Benefits Administration Labor Management (Time & Attendance) Compensation Management Recruiting Management Learning Management Labor management is actually a HUGE part…
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Talent, Outsourcing, and MSS
Since my last post was on talent, I thought I’d see if I could tie it back into systems somehow. As we continuously look at talent in both retention and acquisition modes, we must realize that we’re not only trying to attract and retain employees with compensation, benefits and corporate culture (and such), we’re really…
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Talent, skills and the labor market
Talent: So where is the talent? Deloitte’s talent study basically says that with baby boomers (U.S.) retiring, fewer college graduates with the skills needed in the workforce, talent is simply unavailable. Skills: Check out this innovative general education curriculum at Pomona College. Instead of telling students, “you have to take one science course, one english…
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Global Payroll Outsourcing
One of the major irritations to multinational companies attempting to manage their employees through a single database is the inability to outsource payroll to a single provider. Instead, if the MNC is in 20 countries, it’s likely they will have a centralized PeopleSoft or SAP HRMS with 15 or so interfaces to multiple payroll vendors.…
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HRO and non-cost decision drivers
First of all, if you have never looked here – check out Cap Gemeni’s library. So Cap Gemeni comes out with a survey that organizations looking to outsource really have other objectives other than cost savings. Obviously these have to do with efficiency and their ability to drive strategy and core business focus. They also…
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ADP hiring index for Background Checks
I’m very curious if ADP’s background check press release that the number of checks has tripled since 1997 is a realistic number. While I’m sure that as talent management has taken over the industry, the number of checks has increased in order (not to verify skills) to ensure the proper talent is aquired, I’m not…
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Oracle does the right thing
Oracle’s “Project Fusion” gives me great hope in the future of non-SAP HRMS. So I understand that PeopleSoft the ERP is gone, and so is JD Edwards. But the idea that everything will be swallowed by Oracle with no remains is now less likely. Project fusion will hopefully combine the best of breed apps that…