Measuring quality of hire is a perennially important”and somewhat problematic”issue. We covered it in our Quality of Hire: The Next Edge in Corporate Performance paper and HCI webcast Measuring Quality of Hire: You Can’t Improve What You Can’t Measure. Now, theres some buzz about a BusinessWeek podcast and column by Jack Welch: The Hiring Batting [...]

We were happy to get a note from Josh Bersin, CEO at Bersin & Associates, who wanted to highlight some of his firm’s recent research on talent management: High Impact Talent Management. The focus of the research was to identify: Business drivers and specific industry solutions that organizations are implementing. Level of maturity and adoption [...]

The challenge of aligning the workforce with the organizations goals is clearly not confined to large, complex, global businesses. In fact, its the focus of a study aptly titled, 2007 SMB Owner Trends: Aligning People with Business Goals. Whats not surprising is that the Achilles Group study found that Finding and retaining talent is by [...]

In contrast to the hiring processes implied in the survey results we covered in Insights Into Making Hiring Decisions, Dana Green, talent acquisition and relocation manager for Taleo customer Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc., provides a great description of Toyotas approach and process for talent acquisition and talent management. The Kaizen of Toyota Recruiting describes [...]

For all the effort and resources being used to evolve the hiring process from art to science, here are some disappointing results from two studies: Hiring managers often know whether they might hire someone soon after the opening handshake and small talk, a new survey suggests. Executives polled said it takes them just 10 minutes [...]

Turnover for financial officers”CFOs, controllers, treasurers”is decreasing (albeit still high in the range of 13%), according to Russell Reynolds Financial Officers Turnover, 2007 Study. But, as outlined in the article, CFOs need to rise above the financials, they are struggling to assert their influence in business decisions. Chief financial officers (CFOs) and finance executives need [...]

Here are four different takes on the ongoing debate about baby boomer retirement, potential for turnover, and the associated perceptions and actions. Preparing for an Aging Workforce: A Focus on New York Businesses from AARP found: 62 percent believe their business is likely to face a shortage of qualified workers within the next five years, [...]

UK companies that employ successful talent management practices have an immediate opportunity to gain the talent advantage over their competitors. Heres why: A study by KPMG and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) showed that Recruitment is now the top problem for more than half of all UK companies ahead of business strategy or management. [...]

The recent All-Around HR Players: Knowing It All article discusses a trend towards filling HR executive positions with professionals experienced in other disciplines and departments. This could go a long way towards promoting more of an HR business-based view because these executives bring their broad corporate knowledge to developing HR strategies. And it may be [...]