Your Internal Diamond Mine: Five ways to build on your employees
The employees you already have are a prime source for the positions you have to fill. As the shortage of experienced, skilled talent becomes even greater, organizations that have developed solid internal recruiting practices and policies will be better off than those that haven't.
Your current workforce is a "diamond mind" of skills, corporate culture, and loyalty.
Global Trends Survey: How are global issues affecting your recruiting efforts?
Note: This article refers to a survey on global recruiting issues that all readers are invited to take. You can jump to this survey directly by clicking here.
The world has gotten smaller this year, with more outsourcing, more interest in India and China, and greater talent shortages than ever before. At least half a dozen major American-based organizations, including HP and Cisco, announced large new investments in India.
Where Have the Diamond Mines Gone? Three new sources of talent in the recruiting world.
Sourcing good people has never been more challenging. The days when good people simply dropped off their resumes or when the average recruiter could flip through a rolodex and find several potentially good candidates are a memory.
Whenever a recruiter needs to find a highly skilled candidate, they are challenged by the growing lack of good people and the competitive and global nature of the workplace.
How to Organize Your Recruiting Function: Centralized, decentralized... or both?
Rearranging the boxes on the organizational chart is not only as common as white bread, but it is also indicative of the need to have a big view of things -- a strategy -- as an anchor for the changes.
Answering how things are organized, deciding who reports to who, and deciding who has responsibility for specific things are fundamental management duties.
5 Tips for Hiring Managers: Helping hiring managers help you, the recruiter
Dear Hiring Manager:
You probably only hire a handful of people each year and your recruiter usually does a reasonable job of getting decent people. Sure, sometimes you have to ask for more resumes than you initially got from the recruiter in order to find the right person, and sometimes you get frustrated because he can't seem to find you anybody decent at all. And, once in while, you go outside to a headhunter.
What Is Talent? 6 key elements of a true talent strategy
About once a year I get the feeling that we aren't making any progress in really improving our approaches to acquiring and retaining talent. Perhaps part of this discouragement arises because neither recruiters nor managers have put much rigor into defining what we mean when we talk about the quality of our employees.
We bandy about the term "talent," and yet we have no real definition of it.
Putting in Place a Labor-Based Supply Chain: Talent management processes are following production processes in their evolution
Car manufacturers get daily, even hourly, updates on car sales from dealerships all over the country. This data gets fed into sophisticated supply chain systems that then predict how many cars need to be produced based on sales levels and the popularity of an individual model. This is then translated into component parts, and orders are generated to suppliers. Shipping information is sent to FedEx, UPS, and trucking companies, and accurate data is made available to customers about when products will be available.