Heres a no-brainer: The population of the UK is ageing. Simultaneously there is a shortage of talent in many sectors. New anti-discriminatory UK Age Regulations were introduced in October 2006. As the baby boomer generation moves towards retirement there are insufficient younger workers to take their place, let alone satisfy the requirements of a growing [...]

Lou Adlers ground rules in the new playbook resonate well with Taleo solutions and research. Check out his full article, Are You Playing the Hiring Game to Win? We cant help but highlight his rule #5: Every person in the recruiting department must be a technology fanatic. People who work in a corporate recruiting environment [...]

Computerworld online recently published Mary Brandels article called Fishing in the Global Talent Pool about global hiring strategies for IT. We were happy to see Kent Kirch, Global Director of Recruitment from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, quoted in the article: Were hard-pressed to find talent quickly enough to meet our business needs, he says. Our approach [...]

Take a look at how this nice simple chart compares the perspectives of the old Personnel Department to the modern HR managers of People and Talent. McKinsey“coiners of the popular War for Talent phrase”offers The New Way to articulate the thinking behind talent management: The next step is turning the thoughts of The New Way [...]

In lockstep with the burgeoning number of websites and Internet users is the ever increasing number of job boards. Some are broad and well established: Monster, Careerbuilder. Others are new, niche boards such as WorkforceHRjobs.com and 37 Signals Gig Board for project work. There are also job listing rollups. One to check out: DirectEmployers Association [...]

More and more organizations are establishing or extending their Internet presence. Heres a major milestone: there are now more than 100 million websites on the Internet with web pages easily numbering in the billions. More and more people are using the Internet. Earlier this year, the Pew Internet and American Life Project reported that 73% [...]

We came across a great book that supports the importance of having a talent management system in place: Its Not What You Say… Its What You Do ” How Following Through at Every Level Can Make or Break Your Company. You can have the best product or service, a great bottom line, but without the [...]

Computerworld online published an interesting article titled: Helping small businesses choose between On-demand and On-premise software. Though the focus is general, it reiterates the main advantages of on demand talent management and eRecruiting for small to medium businesses: Lower cost of entry: avoid the large upfront investment required for software licenses and hardware reducing the [...]

Many top employers are taking a try before you buy approach to hiring the hundreds or thousands of new entry level workers they need every year. Internships provide a valuable way to get to know the person before committing to a permanent hire. Employers and interns both get a low risk opportunity to find a [...]

The Offshoring Research Network (ORN) is a joint effort of the Center for International Business Education Research (CIBER) at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and global consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. They have been conducting a multi-year survey and panel study, collecting firm level data on the offshoring experiences of companies across [...]