Korn Ferry asked onboarding related questions to their global panel of executives. They found that only 30% of executives are satisfied with their onboarding process. The question has always been: How much is at stake? Is it a big deal? It is always hard to get an accurate answer for the cost of bad onboarding. [...]

SHRM has just released their 2006 Job Satisfaction study. Satisfaction is an important goal for organizations to reach as it has been shown that profitability, productivity, employee retention, and customer satisfaction are linked to employee satisfaction. Often the debate is centered on what are the top five reasons to achieve superior satisfaction among our employees. [...]

Sometimes people wonder why software as a service (SaaS) took off so quickly in the HR world. One of the key reasons I believe is the fact that strategic HR is a mission critical function, but is rarely supported enough by IT. In the latest Taleo Research paper, The Gap between IT and Strategic HR [...]

A recent survey by HR Executive magazine of 156 HR people showed the often obvious flaws in the performance rating process as it is done today. Everyone but 7% in the organizations responding to the study met or exceeded expectations! We all agree that positive feedback is more motivating than a negative performance report, but [...]

A recent survey of 502 HR people by Spherion showed that over the past five years, usage of screening and assessment have been increasing by over 50% on average. Recently, the reasons for increased use have been believed to be security issues”and of course they have played a role. But even as the scarcity of [...]

The companies listed in the Deloitte Fast 500, which annually ranks the fastest growing companies, came with a report of what their CEOs called 2006 Technology Fast 500 CEO Survey Results. Taleo has been part of the Deloitte Fast 500 for a few years now and the results are music to our ears. High-quality employees [...]

We recommended using Return On Workforce (ROW) in our previous posting. Now lets focus specifically on the People Business. We looked in the past at the good work that the BCG did on the workonomics of the People Business. Here again is a great approach to help leaders to think of what to tackle first [...]

What should talent management really care about? Cost of labor, time to fill positions, job fill ratio, alignment with target, time to productivity, performance rating? In short, all of those metrics are important. But at its simplest expression, it all boils down to one key metric: Return On Workforce (ROW). As noted below: it is [...]

We all know that talent is the fuel of business performance, but what can you do to optimize it? Weve showed in the past that the Taleo index demonstrated stronger financial performance among companies that take talent management processes seriously. We have found similar results as well in the Cedar Crestone survey, providing more proof. [...]

We recently read the latest Cedar Crestone report, HCM Benchmark Study. Lexy Martin did a very fine job of outlining many interesting findings in this 92-page report. We especially liked the way she created a simple view called the HCM Blueprint: Making the distinction is important between administrative applications (HRMS in red) and service delivery [...]