systematicHR

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    Recruiting Effectiveness Measurement

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    Last 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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    Recruiting Efficiency Measurement

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    If 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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    Employee Blogging for Recruiting

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    I’m not sure how many of you noticed the NYT article a few months ago on MIT student bloggers. M.I.T.’s bloggers, who are paid $10 an hour for up to four hours a week, offer thoughts on anything that might interest a prospective student. Some offer advice on the application process and the institute’s intense…

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    Internal Staffing Through Social Media

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    We all know that the best way to find a job is by having great professional networks.  God, looking for a job through job boards is possible, but oh so difficult.  Shouldn’t the same go for internal staffing?  Rather than having internal job boards and postings, we should be deploying social medias to facilitate internal…

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    Market Salary Rates

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    The HR Capitalist had a post the other day about pricing candidate salaries.  But as usual, I have my own opinions. Say it with me – the market rate for any candidate is the $$ amount they will accept.  They’ve got info about what they are worth, you’ve got info about what they are worth. …