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HR Experts and Talent Management Thought Leaders

Taleo Research™ analyzes the best practices and economics of talent management for organizations of all sizes, worldwide. Our specialty research practice focuses on business analytics that tie talent management technology and process improvements to financial results.

Leading Talent Management Expertise

Along with publishing extensive reports, studies, and articles, the Taleo Research™ team has presented at numerous industry conferences on talent management best practices, economics, and metrics for nearly a decade. The team includes experts in talent management and has been cited, along with its research, in leading publications worldwide including Investors Business Daily, Harvard Business Review, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and Human Resource Executive. Founded in 1997 as iLogos Internet Intelligence, Taleo Research™ is the talent management research division of Taleo.

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On-Demand Technology: Powering Your Organization's Transformation into a Talent-Focused Culture


When you look at the most widely adopted technologies—Google for search, Amazon.com for buying, and eBay for selling—they have been far more successful than traditional ERP or desktop software in these particular domains. Running...



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Get Green with Taleo and eRecruiting


Everyone's going green these days—including individuals, households, schools, communities and business of all sizes. Even global corporations are rapidly lining up to make commitments in energy reduction and sustainability.

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A Quick Primer on ROI of Staffing Technology


The calculation of Return on Investment (ROI) is key to all technology purchasing decisions including HR-specific applications. The purpose of this article is to provide a quick framework for making a business case for acquiring best-of-breed...


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Integration of the Staffing Supply Chain with HR-XML


A corporate staffing department relies on a complex network of external providers for the various services that go into the hiring cycle: third-party search firms, temp agencies, job boards, ad agencies, and providers for background checking...


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How Staffing Technology Changes Hiring Practices


Today, new technology and process improvements can sharply truncate the length of time it takes for employers to hire employees. Through their online hiring systems, leading employers are compiling databases organized by candidates' skills....


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Consequences of Open Standards for HR Solution Strategies


Two enterprise applications are rarely developed in tandem, and so have two different data structures, designed to meet two different business needs. Integration is the systematic tying together of separate enterprise applications....



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The Changing Role of the Corporate Recruiter


Recruiters are under pressure. Third-party recruiters are feeling the pressure of the current economy, as corporate clients are cutting back on use of their services. This lean period is forcing many to re-evaluate their role, and reflect on...

Tags: Strategy

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Applicant Tracking is Not Workflow


In discussions of technology and Hiring Management Systems, the terms "applicant tracking" and "workflow" are often tossed around as...


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Why On Demand Technology?


When you look at the most widely adopted technologies – Google for search, Amazon.com for buying, and eBay for selling – they have been far more successful than traditional ERP or desktop software in these particular domains....



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Web-Based or Web-Enabled... and ASPs


“Web-based” and “Web-enabled” are two commonly used terms to describe staffing management systems. Typically, when either term is used, it is in a sentence with ASP. Those terms are all used to describe very different...



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Vendor Management Teams: Follow the Leaders


Reviewing and selecting a vendor for an Applicant Tracking or Hiring Management System (HMS) is an involved process. Many of the topics raised during the evaluation and in an RFP focus primarily on whether the software delivers certain...



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Training


Hiring management systems (HMSs) are complex pieces of software, covering the entire recruitment process, from requisition creation, to internal redeployment, and everything in between. The highest return on investment (ROI) is realized when...



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Total Cost of Ownership of Staffing Management Solutions


Total Cost of Ownership, or TCO, is a concept used to represent the true costs of owning enterprise software. TCO seeks to measure all of the expenses, both human and technical, behind a given technology initiative. It includes all costs...


Tags: ROI

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Staffing Management Solutions & Corporate IT Strategy: Are You Being Served?


Are your staffing requirements being addressed by your company’s overall IT strategy? Are the needs of HR – in particular recruiting and talent management systems – on the IT “A” list? CIOs can be faced with a...



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Putting the "Service" in Application Service Provider


Application Service Providers are delivering many critical hiring management software tools, which require that agreements of service are clearly defined. A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) is a contractual obligation between an Application...



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Selecting a Strategic Business Partner for Recruitment Technology


Many of the questions asked of Applicant Tracking or Hiring Management System (HMS) vendors in an RFP focus on one issue: can the software do the required job within acceptable levels of performance? Asking about such technical matters invites...



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RFP FAQs


Choosing a Staffing Management Solution is a complicated decision, demanding the systematic gathering and assessment of vast quantities of information. As a result, many corporations utilize a Request for Proposal (RFP) document, to give...


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Is IT From Mars and Staffing From Venus?


IT and staffing can often seem to be on either side of many issues. They appear to talk different languages: a cold, hard language of logic and facts on the one hand, and a holistic language of relationships and emotions on the other. The...


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HRIS Integration


A Hiring Management System (HMS) usually does not function in isolation. For end-to-end functionality, a HMS integrates with other Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS). This article discusses integration and why it is important to...


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Ease of Use in a Staffing Management Solution


You shouldn't have to fight with a staffing system to get your daily work done. A good staffing management solution enhances your productivity, working with you to complete the task at hand. An enterprise solution that assists users in...