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2023 Talent Analytics Playbook for CHROs
By Tom McGuire | October 11, 2022
The explosion of HR tools, technology and trends makes zeroing in on essential analytics more difficult than ever. How should Talent Analytics define HR priorities? What are the greatest obstacles to achieving effectiveness? What does a Talent Analytics "homerun" look like? In 2023, talent analytics should not just support, but fundamentally drive, your organization's business strategy.
4 Great Questions to Ask Prospective Talent Acquisition Leaders – and the Answers to Look For
By Linda Brenner | July 12, 2022
Let’s face it: recruiting professionals are generally very good at being interviewed. But that fact doesn’t correlate with excellent recruiting or leadership skills. A TA leader position can be among the most important roles in an organization. Here are some tough but fair questions to ask your finalists and, more importantly, the right answers to look for.
5 Ways to Turn Your Desire to Hire Diverse Talent into Actual Diversity Hiring
By Linda Brenner | June 16, 2022
The demand for greater representation within companies requires HR to successfully find, attract and win high-performing diverse talent. Here are five tips for doing it right.
The Most Effective Recruitment Process in the Toughest Talent Marketplace
By Linda Brenner | April 28, 2022
It’s a trick: the most effective recruitment process isn’t one - it's multiple processes, differentiated and highly engineered. Because in the most challenging talent marketplace that most of us have ever worked in, we can't wing it anymore - nor can we build our processes based on what we've always done, or what hiring managers demand.
Where Have All The Workers Gone: 5 Factors
By Linda Brenner | March 22, 2022
This is the question our consulting firm now hears more often than any other. And there is no simple answer. To understand the worker shortage, take a quick trip around the external market factors, that issues that exist within most companies, the dramatically different choices that talent (and particularly, high-performing diverse talent) are now making - and 5 places they've gone.
4 Ways to Determine if You Need to Improve Your Job Postings ASAP
By Linda Brenner | February 07, 2022
This insane labor market requires employers to put their best foot forward in order to win top talent. But often, when the candidate sees a job posting, it's so bad that it literally repels the most qualified among them. Here are four ways to quickly audit your own postings.
Building a New Partnership Between CHROs and CEOs
By Tom McGuire | August 09, 2021
It's time for CHROs to build a better, more collaborative and business-based relationship with their CEOs. Read more about it in our latest book, "Building Business Value Through Talent: The CEO and CHRO Partnership Guide" available on Amazon: bit.ly/TGAbook
Are you in a War *ON* Talent or a War *FOR* Talent?
By Linda Brenner | July 22, 2021
Here are eight clues for determining where your organization falls.
Technology is Not the Answer to Your Hiring Problems
By Linda Brenner | May 05, 2021
The volume and variety of TA technologies on the market would lead even experienced HR professionals to believe that at least one of them must be the key to improving the speed and quality of hiring. After all, even during these difficult economic...
How to Improve Recruiting: Begin with a SWOT Analysis
By Tom McGuire | March 29, 2021
Need to figure out how to improve hiring speed, quality and diversity? Begin with one of the most tried-and-true methods to assessing strengths and weaknesses: a SWOT framework for recruiting. Learn how this method can help you get started the right way.
Connecting Talent Investments to Business Outcomes (Infographic)
By Tom McGuire | May 20, 2020
All roles are not of equal importance. In fact, 20% of roles drive 90% of your growth. The following infographic explores the key differences between the old school industrial economy and our new knowledge based economy as it relates to an...
A High Volume Hiring Case Study: Improving Hiring Speed, Quality and Cost
By Linda Brenner | September 12, 2018
The Challenge: Improve the quality of hiring high volume, customer service-oriented front line employees. In turn, increase speed to hire and reduce overall hiring costs.
Critical Success Factors in Driving Intellectual Capital: Help! I Need Somebody (Not Just Anybody)
By Linda Brenner | April 27, 2015
Imagine for a moment if the Beatles had been a company. The “top talent,” as defined by the CEO, leadership team and Human Resources department, would clearly have been the musicians and singers known worldwide as John, Paul, George and Ringo. These...
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