…But if you try sometime you just might find you get what you need!

We think these Rolling Stones lyrics sum up the spirit of the Aberdeen Group’s latest paper: The Global War for Talent: Getting What You Want Won't Be Easy.

Responses from more than 600 organizations contributed to establishing best in class performance criteria for talent acquisition. As defined by Aberdeen, these high performance recruiters increased quality of hire, decreased cost per hire, and hired their top choice more than 50% of the time.

Here is what they found to be the required actions for organizations who want to get there:

• Implement processes and tools to define and use skills and competencies.
• Use tools to analyze sourcing strategy effectiveness.
• Communicate more effectively with candidates.

We agree. Taleo’s Talent Master system of record captures competencies, knowledge, and skills so customers can identify top candidates using our ACE methodology. Our customers employ comprehensive sourcing analytics to improve effectiveness by identifying the sourcing strategies that deliver the best results. And are using our candidate portal with Web 2.0 features to greatly enhance the candidate experience and improve communication.

We all know that winning the war for talent won’t be easy. But the proven solutions you can use to elevate your organization to best in class recruiting performance are just a click away. Start today, because - as the song goes - time waits for no one.