Small- and medium-size enterprises have both differences and similarities to the operations of large companies. Although small- and medium-size enterprises … Read more
Alice Snell is vice president of Taleo Research. The specialty research practice analyzes the best practices and economics of talent management. Taleo Research focuses on critical issues and key trends in talent management that impact organizational performance. Taleo Research is the strategic research division of Taleo, which provides on demand talent management solutions for organizations of all sizes, worldwide.
Labor Market Indicators and Staffing Strategy
Hiring is in the news. Every day articles cover the current state of employment and unemployment along with analysis and predictions of future labor market … Read more
Redeploy for Productivity
Many large companies shut down divisions and lay off workers while at the same time starting new business ventures. This firing-and-hiring trend seems to … Read more
Internal Mobility: Performance Measures
To know whether an HR program such as internal mobility has met its objectives, the standards for measurement of the program performance must be defined. … Read more
Internal Mobility: Simultaneous or Staggered Posting?
My last article, Internal Mobility: Process Design, discussed the overall structure of an internal mobility process and specific ways that the process is … Read more
Internal Mobility: Process Design
Internal mobility ó the movement of employees from one position to another within a corporation ó is an efficient and cost-effective method … Read more
Benefits of Saved Candidate Profiles
My last article discussed staffing solutions that are based on a candidate profile. A candidate profile is a file in the careers site database unique to a … Read more
Profile-Based Recruiting
What is a profile? In the broadest terms, a profile is any collection of information on an individual, stored in a structured database. Think of a profile … Read more
Consequences of Open Standards for HR Solution Strategies
Integration is the systematic tying together of separate enterprise applications. Considerable work may be required for two enterprise applications to be … Read more
Segmenting Your Careers Website Candidates
Corporate staffing has become firmly established as an online activity, focusing around the corporate careers website. Competitive advantage no longer … Read more
The Changing Role of the Corporate Recruiter
Recruiters are under pressure. Third-party recruiters are feeling the pressure of the current economy, as corporate clients are cutting back on use of … Read more
Low Employment Is Good For Strategic Staffing
As the economic forces of the new millennium continue to take shape, large companies are revising corporate staffing department budgets with a view towards … Read more
Best of Breed vs. Just Good Enough
Is your current staffing automation technology just getting you by? Sometimes burning platforms only smolder. Without a major catastrophe, there is little … Read more
Total Cost of Ownership of Staffing Management Solutions
“Total Cost of Ownership,” or TCO, is a concept used to represent the true costs of owning enterprise software. TCO seeks to measure all of the … Read more
Resume Volume: Can You Handle It?
Lately, I have been meeting corporate recruiters whose sourcing strategy has been shaped by negative conditioning. Sheer volumes of responses have … Read more
The Cost of Delay
Discussions about the choice of an enterprise-wide staffing management solution have increasingly included the calculation of return on investment, or ROI. … Read more
Online Candidates’ Expectations: Content and Tools
Visitors to your corporate careers website are a demanding bunch. They are the ones holding the mouse. To get them to commit to becoming a candidate, you … Read more
It Takes All Kinds
As a medium, the Internet has grown faster than any other technology in history, including the telephone, radio, TV, and cable. Traffic to corporate … Read more
Careers Website Visitors: Just the Facts
The purpose of the corporate website careers section is to promote the company’s employment openings. It would seem likely then, that visitors to the … Read more
Online Screening: The Reality of Jobseeker Behavior
It is interesting that prescreening has been the focus of much recent discussion. While not a new concept, the active examination of prescreening’s … Read more