The world of recruiting and talent acquisition has evolved over the past few decades… and changes are predicted to continue well into the near future.
Are robots coming to work? Not entirely, but something that is going to be a game changer is about to take over the world of
As we prepare for the upcoming year, talent management may be the last thing on your mind. We still have many Sunday night football games,
High employee turnover hurts the business bottom line. It’s estimated that the average cost of a lost employee is 38 percent of the employee’s annual salary. Considering
It’s not enough to think of your company brand. Or your product brand. Or, actually, your employer brand. Think about it: being an employer implies
Hiring is a gamble. The cost of a bad hire is high — tens of thousands of dollars down the drain, from onboarding and training,
I love big data. I love it for many reasons, but, as I’ve said before, one of the main reasons is the way it’s “raised the
Love is a mystery, as is hiring. The former: we can talk about that complexity some other time. The latter: at least, given the rise
Here’s a simple truth. Human resources is an outdated term. The HR director or HR coordinator no longer just focuses on hiring and firing employees and making
Technology compliance is a necessity. But it isn’t sexy — yet. Certainly, innovating ways to approach compliance has contributed to a greatly transformed world of
We’ve all watched (and some of us have helped) Social and Mobile (SM) rise to the forefront of the world of work. It’s applied a new
You know the old three-legged stool metaphor: you can’t sit down if one of those legs is off. In HR, that means culture, brand and engagement.
It’s happened to us all: That person—that star—the one who absolutely nailed their interview ends up being a dud. New hires end up in duds-ville
It’s no secret that I love technology. From the domination of mobile to the latest in recruitment tools and gamification, and how video and live streaming is having an
Treating employees as faceless cogs can be toxic to workplace culture and hazardous to quality control, but the opposite approach takes special finesse and skill.
HR is experiencing a watershed moment. It’s not like the massive shift from virtual punchcards and e-forms to Cloud-based applications and analytics. It’s not the
Bells and whistles and corner offices aside, talent management is dedicated to one basic question, right? Who’s next? From tending the pipeline right through issues of
Here’s the average amount of time recruiters spend looking at a resume: 6.25 seconds. That’s how long it takes to evaluate, by brain, whether or not
I’ve heard it said before that if you end up with a bad employee, you’ve probably made a bad hiring decision. Now, please understand, I’m
I’ve written a lot about Millennials and the massive impact they are having on the future of work. The largest generation in today’s workforce, they
Imagine a big desk. It’s loaded with two huge stacks of work, one on the left side, one on the right. Left side: the administrative
Here’s a mind-blowing fact to spark up the late-summer doldrums: research from IBM shows that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the
Many of us in HR and Leadership circles – I am among them – bemoan the negativity that springs up during the process of recruiting
We’ve been listening to the buzz around Big Data and Talent Analytics for a couple of years now. It has been nearly three years to
Success for a business of any size hinges on its people and their ability to make things happen. Top talent is expensive — and wasted if
