If you like historical data charts, read on. In the right column at the bottom of our blog under Links of Interest, we have posted historical data charts from our past research. On the Taleo Research Trend Watch page, you will find talent management data going back to 1998. Recent stats are not included, but [...]

We commissioned CedarCrestone to undertake an independent survey of our customers. First the good news: 97% of our customers are satisfied with Taleo. But this survey uncovered many more interesting results. The top five Taleo functional areas most frequently used are: Staffing Metrics Reporter, Workforce Mobility, ACE screening for top candidates, integration, and Taleo Agency. [...]

The superiority of traditional best of breed or point solutions versus integrated ERP suites has been an everlasting debate in the industry. CIOs have heard conflicting messages from our industry for years”sometimes from the same software CEO! At the AMR conference recently we heard SAP saying that best of breed is dead and Microsoft arguing [...]

As you are reading a blog right now, you probably know what it is. A blog is a weblog or web page where individuals express opinions and point of view on a specific topic using a diary or a journal. Here on the Taleo Blog, we express our views on the talent management industry and [...]

# 5: The battlefield for talent will shift. “Ongoing shifts in labor and talent will be far more profound than the widely observed migration of jobs to low-wage countries. The shift to knowledge-intensive industries highlights the importance and scarcity of well-trained talent. The increasing integration of global labor markets, however, is opening up vast new [...]

Now and then we receive this question which is one variation of the statement: My managers dont believe the people we are looking for are on the Internet. Is it smart for us to use that channel exclusively? Most of the time, those managers are wrong. Indeed, the latest Pew survey shows for the US [...]

We all have a Hidden Head-Hunter (H3) in us. That is the premise of H3, a new employee referral service company. This online referral concept is simple. You are hiring and ready to pay a referral bonus. You send me the position information using H3s social networking technology that works like LinkedIn. If I refer [...]

Every one of us that surfs the Internet probably knows all about the small contextual paid search ads that are displayed on the right hand side of Google search results. Very few companies have been using them for talent sourcing, but Google actually posted some for their own internal needs. As shown on the image [...]

The latest IBM CFO survey that covered 889 CFOs and senior finance professionals in 74 countries disclosed an interesting roadmap for the future. In order to transition from simply reporting historical financial data and assuring compliance to becoming more predictive and actively partnering with the business in decision making, several changes are needed. This establishment [...]

In a recent Hudson survey of 10,000 US workers titled Why Employees Walk: 2005 Retention Initiatives Report, we found an interesting distinction that we have not seen before. Most companies and good managers employ good people practices for increased productivity and retention. The traditional factors covered are salary, benefits, relationship with manager, work-life balance, opportunity [...]