Although the full impact of the new UK age discrimination legislation is unclear, there is one obvious ” and feasible ” requirement: defensible record-keeping and reporting. If and when the time arrives to prove compliance, navigating a messy paper trail will expose more risk and vulnerability. In that light, the results of our new research [...]

Sourcing and recruitment advertising costs consume high percentages of HR staffing budgets. With increasing pressure on a decreasing talent supply, getting good results from your sourcing investments looms even larger. Newly released is an interesting and extensive ERE Media and Classified Intelligence research report ($495) thats based on a survey of 350 recruiters across the [...]

Its not especially surprising when Jobster CEO, Jason Goldberg discusses social networks in his recent industry conference presentation, The Future of Hiring Technology. Jobster is on the forefront of applying Web 2.0 to the process of recruitment as part of its vision for both the present and future. But social networks are also a big [...]

Is it still a revolution when the media standard Financial Times comments on changes in recruiting? In the FT article Process of looking for staff undergoes a revolution author Richard Donkin writes: changes occurring in recruitment today, not to mention the broader labour market, are more significant than those arising in the traditional economic cycle. [...]

Build a relationship with a target audience first. Now that youve got their attention and loyalty, post job opportunities in front of them? In a kind of reverse engineering, successful niche blogs are launching revenue-producing job board add-ons. A Red Herring magazine article cites GigaOm, the blogging network started by former Business 2.0 writer Om [...]

Its always gratifying when a study proves what you intuitively know. Professors from Florida State University and Auburn University used a technique called meta-analysis to mathematically combine the findings of 92 previous studies covering 19,319 organizations published since the mid-1980s. They produced the study, How Much Do High-Performance Work Practices Matter? A Meta-Analysis of Their [...]

Retention rates and turnover are flipsides of the same issue. Are you keeping the people youve hired? Or are you constantly replacing them? Mercer Human Resource Consultings China Employee Attraction and Retention Survey is based on more than 100 companies throughout China and Hong Kong. These locations are experiencing alarming rates of turnover. Average tenure [...]

There was so much great information shared in todays Recruiting in Emerging Markets webcast sponsored by Taleo. Pete Engardio of BusinessWeek provided an overview of each countrys talent landscape, complemented by feet on the street insights from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and JPMorgan Chase. The challenges of working in countries with enormous populations, trying to match [...]

The recent Fortune magazine piece, Why India will overtake China, explores the current economic environments of both geographic giants. The Plugged In: Analysis article outlines the strengths of China: China has higher literacy and better infrastructure. It takes a month to start a business in China, and three in India. China has more savings, less [...]