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Android versus iPhones
Read more: Android versus iPhonesThe web is alive with comparisons of Google Android phones and Apple iPhones. While it seemed for a long time that the iPhone was going to own the market, Android has slowly picked up steam. In fact, Apple may have made a serious miscalculation in tying themselves with the AT&T network and a limited population…
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What is Reporting?
Actually, this is another one of those annoying buzz words. We’re going to call it business intelligence or BI. BI software is simply a tool that allows you to extract data out of a database. We’ll continue this discussion for a couple of posts, just like with onboarding. For our purposes, BI tools will fall…
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HRMS vs. Point Solutions… again
I’ve written a few times that the day of the huge enterprise HRMS solution is over. PeopleSoft, SAP… they just don’t provide niche solutions that are as good as point solutions. So the recruiting tools in PS or SAP for example, don’t compare to Virtual Edge, Recruitmax, or Taleo. Then I think about the growth…
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The tie in: Onboarding and Commitment
Vertitude put out this article that addresses some of my previous posts. It’s interesting to me how many people think that onboarding starts with day 1. Without some enphasis immediately after offer acceptance, you miss major opportunities to influence and shape your new hire’s concept of your culture. Anyway, here’s an excerpt: The minute a…
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Onboarding Part 2: Integration
Let’s start this one off with a picture. Let me first say that time also increases from left to right. So your first step would be recruiting and all the functions in the ATS system on the left. After that, you create an offer letter and direct the employee to the on-boarding site. This letter…
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Onboarding Part 1: Definition
OK – So I’ve decided that it’s time for a new topic other than employee engagement. Since Andrew has so kindly thought one up for me, I figure we’ll do something around on-boarding. In the next few days, I’ll be doing a 3 part series on the topic. I’m hoping this will also result in…
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Telecommuters make many office visits
As a quick follow-up to Michael’s work life balance post, I recently saw this article on telecommuting and how telecommuters still go into the office more often than they think they will. Personally, I love tellecommuting even though it impedes my ability to relax 🙂 This article basically says that the world may not be…
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Recruiting to Onboarding
Andrew has a very nice write-up on measuring the recruitment experience through the entire recruiting experience and then the first year of employment. One of the other new buzwords besides “talent” is “onboarding.” Onboarding is not only the new hire experience. It is everything that happens from the moment an offer letter is extended to…
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Talent Management Scorecard updated
Here’s my original post. I have updated Authoria and included Softscape. So an integrated point solution in the talent space should/may include (1) talent acquisition, (2) new hire onboarding, (3) performance management, (4) compensation management, (5) learning management, (6) succession planning, (7) analytics, (8) ESS, and (9) MSS. This is probably not a complete list.…
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Human Capital Benchmarking
So SHRM put out a new survey called the SHRM Human Capital Benchmarking survey. Apparently they are going to do this every year. The metrics that come out of this should be pretty good as they certainly have enough member organizations to pull from. For this year’s survey, they pulled 1500 company responses. (same document…
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Paychex vs. ADP
For the vast majority of employers, Paychex is a viable option. If you have followed my blog with interest, and find the players I generally talk about to be potential vendors for your company, then you are probably a larger employer. Here’s an article from Motley Fool about Paychex. And here’s a quote: More important…