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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…
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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…
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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)….
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…