Taleo Research White Papers
Taleo Research conducts primary research on critical issues of talent management and maintains a valuable library of talent management resources including whitepapers, reports, and studies.
The Future of Talent Management: The Four Stages of Evolution examines the stages of maturity and further defines the future of talent management. It provides a practical tool to help companies measure where their applications and strategies fit in the Talent Management Maturity Model and also identifies opportunities and next steps for driving business performance.
The Human Energy Crisis: Technology's Role in Supporting Field Workforce, Hourly, and High-Volume Hiring Needs challenges small and medium businesses to employ new techniques and technologies to attain their hiring objectives. The labor pool is shrinking. With annual turnover exceeding 100 percent in some industries, not even a recession will resolve the difficulties inherent in finding qualified workers.
Mission-Centric Talent Management: Empowering the Next Level of Results in Federal Government explains how innovative technologies that empower mission-centric talent management can drive a new level of results for constituents and employees. In this new model, HR stops being the owners of processes, forms, and compliance&mdashand becomes the strategic enabler of talent management processes.
Unified Talent Management: Critical to UK Business discusses how businesses, like their counterparts around the world, are under increasing pressure to optimize their business processes and their assets. Yet the shortage of talent and lack of unified talent management systems and strategies are significantly and negatively affecting business performance.
What SMBs Should Look for in an Applicant Tracking System summarizes the features that small and medium businesses need to more effectively source, track, report, stay compliant, and integrate their recruiting processes.
Sourcing in a Time of Scarcity summarizes the evolution of social networking as an aid to hiring. Small and medium businesses can now use online technology to cost-effectively realize the same recruiting advantages available to large enterprises.
Talent Management in a Down Economy explores the relationship between talent management strategies, processes and practices, and the advantages that can be gained by organizations coping with an economic downturn. Learn why talent management is the key issue for businesses worldwide and remains a central strategy in any economic season.
Making Your Recruiting Process Faster, Better, and Cheaper enables you to answer these questions: Is your recruiting process running optimally? Is it efficient? Are you getting speed, effective spending, and quality hires? This paper and associated interactive tool enable you to assess your recruiting and receive a custom report by email—spotlighting your organization’s staffing process.
The Value of Unified Recruiting and Performance Management explains how a recruiting platform unified with succession planning, goals management, performance reviews, and career planning provides many valuable advantages. Now the opportunity exists to enhance your recruiting process by connecting it to an overall organizational talent management strategy through integration with performance management.
Performance 2.0: Empowering the Next Level of Business Results explains how innovative technologies that empower business-centric talent management can drive a new level of business value for shareholders, customers, and employees. In this new model—instead of being the owners of processes, forms, and compliance—HR becomes the strategic enabler of talent management processes for managers and employees.
Career Site Recruiting in Asia Pacific: Gains to be Made finds that many of the top Asia Pacific companies have a career section on their corporate website, yet relatively few allow candidates to apply online through a structured application form that can support a fully automated end to end recruitment process, leading to missed opportunities. Review the current career site recruiting practices of S&P/ASX 50, STI, and HSI companies.
Career Site 2.0: Taking the Lead in the War for Talent focuses on the next generation of corporate career websites, the candidate experience, and the opportunities to implement Web 2.0 features and functionality to gain competitive advantage in the midst of a war for talent. Learn how your organization can gain this advantage.
The Retail Workforce: Driving Operational Excellence describes how many retailers still have a decentralized view and little control over their talent management practices. In the past, retailers have spent their IT budget on sophisticated supply chain and point of sale technology to drive down costs and get much closer to their customers. Learn why this trend is shifting towards a talent focus.
Quality of Hire: The Next Edge in Corporate Performance
This white paper includes remarks and observations from front-line staffing executives and examples of new hire quality measures used in large corporations. It also provides a methodology with practical steps you can take to implement best practice hiring while achieving and measuring success.
Trends in Hourly Job Application Methods surveys 100 top retailers and describes how workforce performance begins with the hiring process. Although it’s only one component of talent management, it can deliver substantial value when aligned with corporate goals. Learn how you can optimize the hiring process for hourly workers.
Tapping into the Older Worker Talent Pool discusses practical strategies for UK organisations to recruit older talent into their workforce. Central to these strategies are the philosophy of skills-based recruiting and the use of e-recruitment technology to promote wide access to job roles and implement a compliant, skills-based recruiting process.
Careers Site Recruiting in the FTSE 100 Companies: A Missed Opportunity reviews the importance of corporate careers sites supporting an optimised back-end recruitment process. The paper presents research results on the current careers site recruiting practices of FTSE 100 companies that identify opportunities for UK companies to create competitive advantage.
Measure, Report, Analyze, and Improve: Turning Analytics into Action defines workforce analytics in the context of talent management, explains why adoption rates have traditionally been low due to cost and legacy technologies, describes the key characteristics of good metrics, and outlines a five step methodology to implement a successful workforce analytics strategy.
Social Networks and Talent Acquisition illustrates the broad context of concern around sourcing talent and probes the value of traditional and new social networks such as MySpace, Jobster, H3, and LinkedIn in talent acquisition. It also provides a framework to understand and use social networks for your organization as a component of a sourcing strategy.
The Gap Between IT and Strategic HR in the UK describes the significant disparity between IT systems and their ability to support strategic HR as that function evolves from an administrative and employee welfare role to become an essential contributor to business
Make Your Hiring Process Faster, Better, and Cheaper: An Action Framework for Your Organization provides answers to these questions. How do you know if your hiring process is optimal? Is it as efficient as possible? Are you benefiting from speed, effective spending, and quality hires? This paper and the associated interactive tool enable you to assess your hiring steps and determine if your process is finely tuned and integrated.
Onboarding: Speeding the Way to Productivity describes the importance of the onboarding process, explores current onboarding practices, and outlines the moving parts in a systematic onboarding process supported by an integrated technology platform. Additionally, a financial model details the substantial positive impact of an efficient and effective onboarding process.
Background Checking: Uncovering the Facts describes how new methodologies and technology mitigate compliance issues, fraud, workplace violence, and negligent hiring—along with potential personal liability. With these process improvements, organizations receive higher quality screening results faster to reduce cost and risk.
Hidden ROI of Talent Acquisition & Mobility provides a full understanding of the costs related to talent acquisition and mobility and specific opportunities for cost reduction and improved corporate performance, as validated by Taleo Research studies.
Hidden ROI of Talent Acquisition & Mobility: The Executive's Primer is a summary guide for executives to understand and calculate total spend and opportunity costs of talent acquisition and mobility, and articulate its overall impact to an organization.
Contingent Workforce Management: Strategies for Results Global 2000 companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on contingent workers who comprise a critical component of their human capital resources. This paper focuses on successful Contingent Workforce Management strategies.
Trends in Job Applications Medium
Trends in Job Applications Medium provides data on the preferred method of accepting job applications to online job postings. The short paper, based on a survey of the corporate websites and careers websites of the Fortune 500 group of companies, reports on the sharply increased adoption of the online response only method over the past five years. Corporate careers site online recruiting trends in the next five years are also forecast.
Internal Mobility
A groundbreaking report that articulates the key strategies for leveraging and optimally deploying the existing employee base.
Global 500 Web Site Recruiting, 2003 Survey
Now in its sixth year, the survey finds an emerging parity between geographic regions.
Economics of Candidate Relationship Databases
A report that models the financial benefits of implementing a candidate relationship database.
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