Archives for March 2010

Alice Snell

Difficult Positions

by Alice Snell | March 24, 2010 | No comments

There are certain jobs and positions that make recruiting more challenging. But making the right connections with career passion, work-life balance, and career site culture can provide ideas for solutions. The non-profit sector, for instance, has always been a challenging area for recruiting. Techniques that can help are described in Linking Passion and Career: The [...]

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7 Steps to Leadership Development

by Alice Snell | March 18, 2010 | No comments

The BusinessWeek article You Can Lead. But Can You Inspire? offers 10 attributes of successful leaders. This is an important distinction. There are fundamental differences between a manager and a leader. While leaders influence, inspire, and drive people, the role of a manager is keeping day-to-day operations running smoothly. Peter Drucker made the distinction this [...]

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Diversity Pays Off

by Alice Snell | March 15, 2010 | No comments

DiversityInc has published The 2010 DiversityInc Top 50 List and we can see that talent management is making a difference for these companies. This tenth annual competition is objective and based on a survey of more than 200 questions that paint by numbers what can be considered a picture of a companys culture. How do [...]

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Inside Track

by Alice Snell | March 10, 2010 | No comments

The key finding in CareerXroads 9th Annual Source of Hire Study: Meltdown in 2009 and What It Means for a 2010 Recovery isnt about new hires at all. In a significant increase over 2008, Internal Transfers and Promotions were the source of 51% of ALL the F/T positions companies filled on average. INTERNAL MOVEMENT As [...]

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Rocky Road

by Alice Snell | March 5, 2010 | No comments

A number of studies indicate job growth as organizations around the world emerge from recession mode in 2010. But these optimistic trends are tempered by expectations of a rocky road. PricewaterhouseCoopers 13th Annual Global CEO Survey further concludes: Highly skilled still globally in demand Specialists remain in demand, and many parts of the world are [...]

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Influence and Learning

by Alice Snell | March 2, 2010 | No comments

I am pleased to be listed among the Top 25 Influencers in Online Recruiting and hope that the research cited on this Taleo blog helps you improve the recruiting and talent management practices in your organization. Obviously, learning from data-driven sources about best practices and processes for recruiting is valuable. However, one of the overarching [...]