OK. You cant come to the Taleo Blog and not read about our IPO that happened yesterday! Placing a high regard towards integrity and respect of the SEC rules, our communication policy has been very strict and I will remain in line. But you can visit our brand new Investor Relations page at www.taleo.com and [...]

Veritutes September newsletter, Workforce Data Insights, reports that in a survey of 138 senior executives, they asked them to rank which people related metrics were the most important to you? Guess what? Cost per hire ranked last while productivity and labor cost as a percentage of revenue ranked first and second! So the next question [...]

Last week, Oracle OpenWorld was raging here in San Francisco. Our offices are in fact not too far from the Moscone Center where it was heldparking, restaurants, and hotels were full! This was the first time for Oracle OpenWorld to appear with one face to the world, after the major PeopleSoft + J.D. Edwards acquisition [...]

The Conference Boards StraightTalk on Global Demographics in the September online issue makes us revisit the two questions we hear most often when our customers do their internal Talent Inventory using Taleo and wonder about world demographics. What about China and India? What about the aging population? So what about China and India? Together today [...]

I will have the pleasure to interview Jim Holincheck from Gartner this Thursday, September 22 at 10:00 a.m. PT ” 1:00 p.m. ET ” 18:00 London time in a special free webcast. He will discuss: From eRecruiting to Talent Management”Definition to Implementation. Want to make that strategic leap from eRecruiting to talent management? Jim will [...]

A conference summary report from Enterprise 2005 produced in collaboration by Sand Hill Group and McKinsey reports on a couple of key trends in the software industry. If you are a buyer, it is always good to know the trends of the market. That way, you will know if your spending is aligned with how [...]

As Sue Meisinger, CEO of SHRM describes in her response to the Fast Company article titled, Why We Hate HR: Its time we brush off those old HR stereotypes and take a fresh look at the profession. The same message is echoed in the featured article of the September issue of HR magazine. We see [...]

The most striking counterexample is probably the story of a gentleman here in the San Francisco Bay area. He was let go from a large investment bank due to a reorganization. Two weeks later, he was rehired by the same company, but this time for the Asia Pacific operation! Great for him, but a waste [...]

CEOs can be heard to say: Our employees are our most important asset. Sometimes they say it even when HR people are not in the room. But this sentence does not tell the whole story. We should actually say: Our best employees are our most important asset. Or perhaps the CEO really means: The organization [...]