In the previous posting we looked at how Google changed the Job Search industry. Today we will consider how Taleo and other similar talent management tools will change the Job Search industry. As much as we saw three criteria yesterday, we believe in this case, that one core reason will prevail: quality of applications and [...]

A couple of years ago, everyone was saying the game was over for the search industry. Yahoo! was declared winner and Excite, AltaVista, AskJeeves, and the others were far behinduntil Google. What was the difference? How about improved search relevance, simpler user interface, and a new business model. In the job board or job search [...]

The traditional metrics used in talent management are often either around performance or about talent acquisition. While in Sydney with the growing Taleo user community in the Southern Hemisphere, we reviewed the metrics that they monitor today. Comparing this to a couple of years ago, we see a great improvement in the precision that all [...]

When we were in Singapore, we were invited to an official ceremony called A Memorandum of Understanding between bodies representing two sides of the organization that often dont really understand each other. The SHRI (Singapore Human Resource Institute) and the ACCA (largest international accountancy body with 110,000 members and active in more than 170 countries) [...]

Prior to asking this question, it is also good to ask: what is engagement? In a study done in Singapore, 86% understood it as job satisfaction and 80% as commitment to work. But only 62% as being productive or 13% as working hard. So that begs these next questions: Is engagement enough? In other terms, [...]

We are getting ready to speak at the SHRI Forum 2006 conference in Singapore on Managing Talent for Maximum Performance. The theme of this event is Engaging Your Workforce. Maybe its a reaction to the successive studies which have shown that engagement rates in Singapore are some of the lowest in the world! I have [...]

Often in the quest of finding the best talent, we are lured towards new tools that promise we will get even the most passive candidates. We often forget that a passive candidate is not synonymous with a good match. A good match is way more important. So we decided to build a view of sourcing [...]

Reminding yourself of the basics is always good. Peter Cappelli from The Wharton School where he heads the Center for Human Resources gives a simple though not simplistic reminder in a recent article from HR Executive magazine. The key question all HR leaders are asking themselves: How can I become a peer with the decision [...]