Archives for September 2008

Alice Snell

Compensation Connection

by Alice Snell | September 29, 2008 | No comments

Pay”and pay for performance”trigger perennially charged conversations. Often, the discussions and perceptions are ill informed or inaccurate. Gallup reports that half of Americans believe they are underpaid. Many people dont know the upper and lower limits of pay for their job, as Weddles reported: The Hay Group surveyed compensation executives and managers to get their [...]

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The Talent Grid: The Platform is the Service

by Alice Snell | September 24, 2008 | No comments

Back in the 60s, the noted media theorist Marshall McLuhan said: The medium is the message. To play off that term in the on demand software as a service (SaaS) space, today the platform is the service. Heres why. Technology talk these days is about cloud computing. Is this a new concept? Not really. Software [...]

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Award-Winning Talent Innovation

by Alice Snell | September 18, 2008 | No comments

With nearly 1,000 attendees at Taleo WORLD 2008, the caliber of HR talent collected truly reflects the theme of Great Performances. Along those lines, there is the winner of the 2008 Taleo Innovation Award: the City of Chicago. One of the worlds great cities”with a metropolitan area population of 9.7 million”Chicago boasts a gross metropolitan [...]

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100,000,000 Candidates Served

by Alice Snell | September 16, 2008 | No comments

Remember the McDonalds signs with their OVER ## BILLION SERVED messages? Today”at Taleo WORLD 2008“we announced the processing of our 100 millionth candidate. Since 1999, our customers have been relying on software as a service (SaaS) technology to process their talent from career sites to job sites. This is a milestone for talent management and [...]

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Generation Y: Faster Impressions

by Alice Snell | September 10, 2008 | No comments

Youve strategized and socialized”sourced, assessed, and interviewed. Now your company better hurry up and walk the talk. Because HR departments are reporting that there is a higher rate of new hire turnover among Millennials. After you invest all the resources to catching Gen Y entry-level talent, a Novations Group study quantifies your opening risk window [...]

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CIOs Experience Software as a Service Success Stories

by Alice Snell | September 3, 2008 | No comments

Baseline magazines Software as a Service Survey of more than 250 CIOs reveals increased momentum for SaaS HR applications floating at the C-level: HR/benefits applications are most likely to be implemented. 72% got up and running within the timeframe they expected. 43% have been using SaaS for three years or more. 65% say that SaaS [...]