BusinessWeeks Innovation Predictions 2008 slideshow featuring Shape-Shifting Enterprises and the power of innovative on demand software made us think about looping back to see how many predictions actually come true. Predictive research papers carry the inherent risk of launching extrapolated trends into a stormy sea of unknowns. However, they usually carry a little more weight [...]

Holiday bargains, sales, and decorations attract legions of shoppers this time of year. With those kinds of numbers out and about, you could take advantage of the opportunity to increase your employment brand visibility while doing some actual recruiting and hiring. Thats what our customer Starwood Hotels & Resorts is doing successfully. As the HR [...]

Getting the advantage in attracting and retaining what bestselling author Dan Tapscott calls the Net Generation (N-Gen) born between the 1970s and 1990s means looking hard at the behavioral demographics. Tapscotts books include Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation and Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. He is also the founder and [...]

The Slacker Manager blog starts a post on annual performance reviews and then connects on some important performance management ideas in 5 Habits of Highly Successful Slacker Managers. Three of the five habits are listed below: Link your firms goals, to your departments goals, to your teams goals, to your goals, to your associates goals, [...]

SMBs have had to settle for simple career sites, want ads, and limited access to job boards for sourcing tools. They could fill positions but missed relationship building with passive candidates, lacked sophisticated job board tools, and had to manually troll the social networks. But now technology and targeted marketing have leveled the playing field. [...]

With the war for talent raging, HR is doing what it can to recruit and retain top talent by managing candidate relationships. Meanwhile, your sales and support staff are focused on managing customer relationships. Depending on who in the organization you ask, you may get the same response as Charles Dickens opener in A Tale [...]

Turnover rates, retention strategies, tenure ” different terms circling the same issue. How long do people stay in their jobs? A global view discussed in Welcome to the world of job-hopping, finds: According to research by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, while Greeks workers tend to stay put for 13 years, French employees [...]

I dont know that Id go as far as the Perth Leadership Institutes release saying the [credit] crisis was due at least in part to a lack of business acumen on the part of managers and executives in the industry and that this has been perpetuated by the lack of leadership development programs that identify [...]

The Ipsos Public Affairs survey of US workers commissioned by the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (FCEDA) found: 88% consider themselves to be creative. 75% thought their employer valued creativity. 63% said their positions were creative. 61% thought their companies were creative. Fairfax County sees these results pointing to a creativity gap in the workplace; [...]

The eWeek blog entry Wither the Resume? reminds us how quickly we have evolved in how people apply for jobs. Capturing information has advanced rapidly from manual scanning and sorting, resume parsing, and email resume attachments to a full automated online application process. The unstructured options for gathering information on candidates have also grown as [...]