It is always nice to close the year on a positive note. The results from the Recruiting.com 2005 Best Blog awards were published today in their extensive survey covering several topics on blogs – from the best CEO blog to the best HR blogs. They placed our Taleo Talent Management Solutions Blog in the category [...]

Workforce.com came up with a good table recently from a study by CLC showing some averages that should convince more people about the true cost and impact of talent movement. In other words, it costs more than $3,000 in time for the recruiter and the manager per each new hire. For each 1,000 hires a [...]

These days, sometimes we think we are back in 1999 with all the excitement brewing for new concepts using Internet technology that will change the world! And indeed, Amazon.com changed the way we buy things, eBay changed how we sell things, and Monster.com changed the way we advertise jobs. Recently, many conversations have centered around [...]

HR Executive magazine has completed their HR challenge survey for 2005. They received 224 respondents who described their main challenge in 2005. The #1 challenge was Staffing or Recruitment with 27%, followed by Compensation or Benefits with 25%. These two challenges dominated half the field! The next greatest issue in third was mentioned by only [...]

Lately the industry has been so focused on Google dominating the classified ad business that most people didnt really look at challenging the established model. We actually found one. And not in the US, but from Europe. Its called JobDealer. It is actually an eBay of jobs. Your organization posts the job on the site [...]

Coming from the same competitive perspective as Survivor, weve already seen reality TV cover the Youre fired! aspect of employment with The Apprentice. But how about a show called, Youre Hired!? That premise might support the true reality of solving talent shortages in some critical professions, such as nursing! In fact, we recently saw a [...]

A new SHRM survey titled 2005 U.S. Job Recovery and Retention delivers a staggering statistic. More than 75% of your employees could jump ship! Does that make your face turn red? Maybe you will look like them ” matching the red or orange alerts shown below! Not only that, but 80% of respondents said that [...]

Business 2.0 is running an interesting series of short pieces by business figures. The one that caught our attention: Make Hiring a Top Priority the rule of Steve Ballmer. I did all the hiring myself for a long time. No one joined Microsoft without my interviewing them and liking them. I made every offer, decided [...]

Wherever you read today, you hear about the aging population, the need to get twice as many technical degrees by 2015, or the fact that turnover will increase more than you think. According to a recent Spherion study, employers expect that 14% of their employees will leave next year. And if you ask the employees, [...]

Just when you thought you were receiving too many unqualified applications from Eastern Europe, get ready to accept the volume from many more developing countries. The MIT Media lab is pushing a new prototype device at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis yesterday. The device is a simplified PC, with an electricity-generating [...]