The Role of HR in The Age of Talent whitepaper prompted some blog buzz, including The HR Capitalist posting”and thread of comments”When People Say HR Stinks, It’s Simple…Don’t Stink… It revisits the controversy around the role of HR as a business partner. We think that talent management is best implemented as a partnership between the [...]

The new Taleo Research white paper Unified Talent Management: Critical to UK Business discusses how UK businesses are under increasing pressure to optimize business processes and assets in an uncertain economy. Yet they face increased talent shortages, lack unified talent systems and strategies, and must adjust career site strategies to accommodate an increase in online [...]

The journey from Personnel Department to Human Resources and Talent has taken decades. And the magic words most often used to elevate”or perhaps better define”the function in the eyes of the business include efficiency, strategy, and transformation. These words always look good up front on the PowerPoint slides when approaching the executive table for HR [...]

Long relegated to HR journals, research papers, and occasional magazine features, talent management is now appearing regularly in mainstream news. As weve progressed from the agricultural, industrial, information, to the talent age, the performance generated from successful talent management is Empowering the Next Level of Business Results. Recent talent management features in the news include [...]

Development Dimensions International (DDI) with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) recently published Growing Global Executive Talent which points out that talent awareness is not enough. Immediate action is required according to the more than 400 executives polled. 55% felt that business performance would likely suffer due to a lack of talent. Aberdeens recent study of [...]

Interesting findings are presented in the Results from the 5th Annual Rocket-Hire Online Screening and Assessment Usage Survey article, which is subtitled: Quality screening and assessment tools can pay off, if you demonstrate their value. Study data shows a significant increase in the use of screening and assessment: 57% now use online prescreening to sort [...]

Although the term inflection point has its root in mathematics, Andy Grove described it in business terms in his 1996 book, Only the Paranoid Survive as An inflection point occurs where the old strategic picture dissolves and gives way to the new. In 2008, the term inflection point is an apt description of the state [...]

In the midst of economic uncertainty, a majority of respondents to Knowledge Infusion and EREs The Future of Recruiting & Sourcing Survey consider recruiting and sourcing in the top third of business“not HR”but business priorities. Thats because best practices for finding and hiring great talent is never out of style”regardless of the economic season. We [...]