Process automation across the talent management spectrum delivers higher quality of hire as measured by hiring manager satisfaction and time to productivity as reported by Aberdeen. The best-in-class findings of the Talent Acquisition Strategies study covering hundreds of companies are summarized in CIO Insights’ Automating Your Hiring Process slideshow. Highlights include a documented decrease in [...]

If one of the projections in PwC Saratoga’s 2010/2011 US Human Capital Effectiveness Report is correct, then—as has occurred historically post-recession—employers should prepare for an upswing in voluntary exits. This prospect should drive redoubled efforts in two areas: 1) top performer retention strategies, and 2) a renewed emphasis on aspects of the new external hire [...]

As organizations shift their business gears from reverse to neutral and into drive, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the World Federation of People Management Associations (WFPMA) revisited BCG’s 2008 global “Creating People Advantage“ report with a follow-up survey: Creating People Advantage 2010: How Companies Can Adapt Their HR Practices for Volatile Times. The results identified [...]

There’s a lot to be learned in the correlation of how the sports metaphor relates to companies. Just look at Talent Management Lessons and Strategies From the World Series and They Might Be Giants: Management Insights From San Francisco’s Boys of Summer. Search the term “recruiting” on Google and you’ll see how popular use centers [...]

How we look at things and the metaphors we use to describe them can sometimes reveal the thinking behind our philosophies. For example, the term human capital was used for many years to describe a company’s investment in people. Business leaders saw their people as a portfolio of assets much like a mutual fund and [...]