We recently published a new Taleo Research White Paper, the UK Social Talent Management Report 2012, which takes the temperature of the UK’s use of social networks for professional purposes. It’s an interesting read, confirming my “gut feel” in a few areas and surprising me in a few others. The research is based upon a [...]

The recent article, “Why External Hires Get Paid More, and Perform Worse, than Internal Staff,” brilliantly summarises some research that Wharton management professor Matthew Bidwell published in December 2011. Essentially, the research found that external hires are typically paid more (18% to 20%) than internal hires, but tend to perform worse. The premium paid for [...]

In my role within Taleo’s business transformation practice, I spend a lot of time with large organisations discussing their talent management programmes and how talent technology can be leveraged to scale these programmes to cover thousands of employees rather than the selected few. I contend that the vast majority of large organisations intuitively know that [...]

In preparation for the Taleo Europe conference back in November 2011, we spent some time trying to predict the trends for Talent Management in 2012, some of which were discussed during the conference in Paris. Since I put my predictions to paper, Europe and talent management hasn’t stood still: SAP has bought Success Factors in [...]

We recently published a new Taleo Research White Paper, the UK Social Talent Management Report 2012, which takes the temperature of the UK’s use of social networks for professional purposes. It’s an interesting read, confirming my “gut feel” in a few areas and surprising me in a few others. The research is based upon a [...]

The recent article, “Why External Hires Get Paid More, and Perform Worse, than Internal Staff,” brilliantly summarises some research that Wharton management professor Matthew Bidwell published in December 2011. Essentially, the research found that external hires are typically paid more (18% to 20%) than internal hires, but tend to perform worse. The premium paid for [...]

In preparation for the Taleo Europe conference back in November 2011, we spent some time trying to predict the trends for Talent Management in 2012, some of which were discussed during the conference in Paris. Since I put my predictions to paper, Europe and talent management hasn’t stood still: SAP has bought Success Factors in [...]

In my role within Taleo’s business transformation practice, I spend a lot of time with large organisations discussing their talent management programmes and how talent technology can be leveraged to scale these programmes to cover thousands of employees rather than the selected few. I contend that the vast majority of large organisations intuitively know that [...]

We recently published a new Taleo Research White Paper, the UK Social Talent Management Report 2012, which takes the temperature of the UK’s use of social networks for professional purposes. It’s an interesting read, confirming my “gut feel” in a few areas and surprising me in a few others. The research is based upon a [...]

The recent article, “Why External Hires Get Paid More, and Perform Worse, than Internal Staff,” brilliantly summarises some research that Wharton management professor Matthew Bidwell published in December 2011. Essentially, the research found that external hires are typically paid more (18% to 20%) than internal hires, but tend to perform worse. The premium paid for [...]

In my role within Taleo’s business transformation practice, I spend a lot of time with large organisations discussing their talent management programmes and how talent technology can be leveraged to scale these programmes to cover thousands of employees rather than the selected few. I contend that the vast majority of large organisations intuitively know that [...]

In preparation for the Taleo Europe conference back in November 2011, we spent some time trying to predict the trends for Talent Management in 2012, some of which were discussed during the conference in Paris. Since I put my predictions to paper, Europe and talent management hasn’t stood still: SAP has bought Success Factors in [...]