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Recruiting Engagement
Read more: Recruiting EngagementSo, I used to write this blog for me. Honestly, I could have cared less that anyone was reading it. It has been a great exercise for almost 6 years – forcing me to continuously thing and read and research. I’ve enjoyed writing over 1000 posts and think of it as a fairly significant achievement. …
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The end of customization
Possibly not the end, but configurability is reaching new levels of innovation and market demand. The growing demand to keep HRMS applications “vanilla” to limit upgrade expense, and the continued growth in HR functionality have really allowed employers to realize a configurable HR technology world. If you’ve been using a system such as PeopleSoft, this…
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XML Interfacing
Chuck Allen over at the HR-XML blog has been writing for a while and a post on employee indicative data caught my attention. If you think about all your most common interfaces, employee indicative data is the one used the most. In fact, pretty much every HR technology interface needs to push or pull this…
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systematicHR is 1 year old!!!
Yup, my first post on the HR Technology Discussion Board was 1 year ago today and I’ve posted 313 times since then. You have also written about 250 comments since December, and possibly many more than that in the last 12 months. (I didn’t convert old comments from the HR Tech Discussion Board) Well, along…
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The Role of HRIS – Part 2
Last week we talked about a good HRIS analyst’s role in decision support. This week we are going to talk about the integration between process determination and HRIS. HRIS should be playing the same role in process support that it does in decision support. In decision support I described how HRIS should have the business…
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Offshoring Not a Cause of Job Loss
2.4% of U.S. jobs have been lost to outsourcing and offshoring since 2003. That’s the bad news. The good news is that if you trend all job gains and losses due to outsourcing and offshorig (trade) over time, 2.4% is totally insignificant. ((Groshen, Erica L. , Hobijn, Bart , and McConnell, Margaret M., August 2005.…
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PEO vs. HRO again.
I got an e-mail from a reader about PEO v HRO: What is your advice to a company (100-1000) on what TYPE of outsourcing would be best for their company? Basically, PEO VS BPO. Pretty broad but there are all kinds of companies trying to figure out the breaking point. Rather than talking about BPO,…
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Top HRO Deals of 2005
I might be a bit behind on the news and it’s entirely possible this has been posted elsewhere. However, HRO Today Magazine posted their top 22 HRO deals of 2005 in their January/February issue. Personally I’m positive this is nowhere near a complete list. I’m betting there were at least another 30 HRO deals even…
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The Role of HRIS – Part 1
I’ve been thinking that HRIS is given too tactical a role in most organizations. This is not based on any real metric or survey, but just a gut feel from organizations I’ve visited over the last half decade or so. Over the next couple weeks, I think I’d like to explore the opportunities for creating…
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HR Technology Does Not Make Us Strategic
I admit – I used to be one… A vendor that is. I was one of those people who told HR technology buyers, “Great HR technology will allow you to be more strategic!!!” I’m sorry. But actually (in my and every vendor’s defense), it’s not a lie. We just need to understand what salespeople tell…
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Taleo Version 7 – updates to my scorecard
With Taleo’s next release, they regain my number one spot for Talent Acquisition vendors. While they’ve always been at or near the top of my list, Taleo has been slipping for a few years due to their inability to execute on a web services strategy. Basically they haven’t opened up their API’s to allow better…