Preliminary findings are out from Staffing.orgs 2007 Job Seekers and Employees Report. Among them: 50% of the respondents visit [company job sites] regularly or occasionally to look for opportunities. However, familiarity and experience has also fostered discrimination. 75% of all respondents are now consciously ranking the user experience on these sites and red carding sites [...]

For the past two years, CedarCrestone has researched and published an independent customer value and satisfaction study. The results of this years study reveal once again that organizations that employ talent management processes get significant value in return. Value highlights in the study include dramatic results in these areas: Efficiency Gains. Weyerhaeuser saves from 10% [...]

Nice coverage by Human Resource Executive Online of the JPMorgan Chase Takes U.S. Recruiting Global presentation by Judy Lannin Panagakos, the VP of HR Operations at JPMorgan Chase at the HR Technology conference. Take a scroll down to the Global Recruiting subhead to read the details on how JPMorgan Chase will soon have all 172,000 [...]

A new study from DDI and HCI titled Talent Management in Motion: Keeping Up with an Evolving Workforce queried hundreds of HR executives in North America on the evolving workplace. Here are the findings on workplace trends: Factors Expected to Increase in Organizations Over the Next Three Years These are indications that organizations expect to [...]

In the manufacturing and industrial ages, organizations were measured by physical asset value. In the talent age, higher value is placed on knowledge and innovation ” a shift from bricks to brains. If knowledge is king, then the risks a company faces are primarily talent related. You can call the symptoms brain drain, knowledge loss, [...]

We are probably all aware of the impact of the book What Color is Your Parachute? on the career process. But have you thought about the color applicants see when they consider your organization? You better hope they see a green employment brand or you may be seeing red. Here is a roundup of recent [...]

Providing flexible work arrangements to attract, accommodate, and retain workers is an emerging strategy in tight talent markets”including in Singapore where turnover rates range between 15 to 25 percent. The HR Trends Survey Singapore found flexi-work arrangements earn good feedback from employees. Tight talent markets call for superior talent acquisition combined with ongoing talent management [...]

A survey of 1,350 European executives from 27 countries conducted by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the European Association for Personnel Management (EAPM) concluded that managing talent is the most critical challenge today. This quote from Hans Bhm, general secretary of EAPM, stood out for us: “Human resources has never played a more important [...]

SAP, Microsoft, Google, and Adobe have all recently announced new forays into the on demand application space where software as a service rules. Notably absent is Oracle, but thats no joke and also our punch line. Software-as-a-Service and Web 2.0 advantages are well known. Lower costs, greater flexibility, and higher user adoption are just a [...]