# 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 [...]