Fortunes list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For is compiled each year using a large number of attributes and an exhaustive process. Being on this list gives you a major employment brand advantage and results in a jump in the number of job applications. Candidates from college graduates to seasoned job hoppers use [...]

Onboarding is an overlooked process that can make or break the productivity of a new hire. Not to mention employee engagement and long term career investment. So its time to stop treating it as a checkbox and see it as a very important first step in the new hires relationship to the organization. Although onboarding [...]

Every endeavor has a process ” a process with distinct steps and a flow. In recruiting that process involves stakeholders both inside and outside of your organization: corporate recruiters and HR staff, hiring managers, and outside suppliers such as job boards and background checking. Then of course dont forget the applicants and candidates. The flow [...]

Although it has been labeled as a disruptive emerging technology since 1999, recent articles and studies underscore that a Software as a Service (SaaS) has earned its proven track record as an established force between the lines. McKinseys Delivering software as a service cites the lower barrier to entry and economic advantages to both vendor [...]

London Business School Professor Doug Readys work caught our attention with the publication of The Wall Street Journal article, How to Fill the Talent Gap. He is also the co-author of an outstanding Harvard Business Review article, Make Your Company a Talent Factory. In a terrific ten-minute video, Prof. Doug Ready further articulates his view [...]

The strategic challenge of using talent as a business performance driver has flirted with market dynamics since McKinseys coining in 1997 of The War for Talent. Initially focused on management talent and best-and-brightest leadership, McKinsey has arrived at a more holistic destination a decade later with the cogent article: Making talent a strategic priority. Two [...]

When people discuss whether or not there is a renewed war for talent, those who are on the front lines and see the action are usually the best sources. Ask those in IT who are recruiting to fill positions. Computerworld.com ran the article 8 New Weapons to Fight the Talent Wars in ’08 with the [...]

Two more sets of forward looking views are noteworthy as 2008 begins. WorldatWork Highlights Key Predictions for Human Capital Management in 2008 and Beyonds first two predictions of eight combine to validate the process and technology investments that companies need to make if they want to achieve the next level of business performance: 1. The [...]