The Problem Is Here Today Although many experts are talking about a shortage of talent that will hit in 2006, in many regions and industries the shortage is already occurring. Job posting sites that target recruiters, like ERE's job board, have seen a marked increase in the number of job …
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How to Find a Great Recruiter, Part 3
Other Miscellaneous Ways to Attract Recruiters Some other individual approaches that can be effective in attracting recruiters include: Write a white paper or case study about your firm's recruiting practices. Set up a move during a major recruiting conference. Hold an invited open house on your site and encourage your …
Read More »Who’s Ahead of the Curve? A Year End Review of the Best (and Worst) in Recruiting
Best Thinkers in Recruiting for 2005 These are the individuals or firms whom I have encountered this year that clearly think differently and are definitely on the right track with their philosophy and strategy of where recruiting needs to be. Chris Forman. The CEO of AIRS has a better grasp …
Read More »HR Must Assume the Role of the “What Works” Best Practice Sharing Process
But Aren’t Best Practices Shared Already? I had often suspected that within large corporations best practices in people management were not being shared throughout the organization, a suspicion that was later proven time and time again through my advisory work in the area of employment branding. While working with such …
Read More »Financial “Undercounting” in HR…What you Don’t Count Is Hurting You!
STOP COUNTING ONLY HALF OF THE REAL COSTS When times are tight, everyone is encouraged to reduce their budget, and budget cutting is not necessarily a bad thing. Unfortunately, it can cause serious damage to an organization if the cuts reduce spending too far in one area and not enough …
Read More »HR People Are From Mars, CEO’s Are From Venus!
“Our #1 opportunity is to build a competitive advantage, not to build benefit plans for our organization” –VP of HR Cisco I’ve met/ worked for over 100 VP’s of HR and dozens of CEO’s over the last few years and although there are clearly exceptions, I’ve found that CEO’s and …
Read More »Clarifying the Strategic Role of HR
HR “work” can be classified into five distinct levels from the basic to the most strategic. Those levels include: Level One –Information Management and Basic Transactions Every HR department must provide basic information, answer employee and manager questions and complete operational level transactions. These most would agree are the oldest …
Read More »Forecasting “Headcount Fat” in Order to Avoid Large Scale Layoffs
Why it's essential to avoid layoffs Laying off thousands of workers is not only embarrassing, it's also expensive. Because the company has invested thousands of dollars in recruiting and training these employees, it makes no sense to release them in large numbers. The negative publicity related to the lay off …
Read More »HOW CAN I TELL IF I AM BEING STRATEGIC?
Identifying Which Corporate Strategic Goals And Objectives To Impact As you can see from each of the above definitions, strategic actions are designed to impact corporate goals and objectives. Before HR can increase its strategic impact it must first determine what goals the organization considers strategic. At some companies identifying …
Read More »Assessing Your Ability to Develop Talent
The checklist is broken down into 14 different sections, each covering a unique set of talent development processes. I. MEASURING THE RESULTS AND IMPACTS OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT World-class talent development departments include these elements and characteristics in the design of their measurement systems: 1. ROI — The ROI or Cost/Benefit …
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