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Our June ‘24 Newsletter: Chock Full of Talent News
By Linda Brenner | July 02, 2024
In case you missed it, here's our June '24 newsletter . . . talent insights that have a long shelf life.
Simplifying Workforce Planning for Summer 2024: Practical Tips for HR Leaders
By Linda Brenner | April 01, 2024
In today's data-rich landscape, workforce planning is essential for HR leaders to identify talent-related priorities and investments. While tools like Visier and Tableau provide instant and slick access to data, the challenge lies in ensuring its accuracy, deciphering its true meaning and turning it into actionable plans. By focusing on key metrics such as attrition rates and tenure distributions, HR leaders can create directionally-accurate workforce plans that can evolve over time to enable their organizations navigate the most complex talent marketplace we've ever known. This article details a roadmap that will help HR leaders build a simple workforce plan that will allow them to address the most important people-related trends in their organization, now and in the future.
The Most Important Recruitment Metric: Quality of Hire
By Linda Brenner | January 09, 2024
At the end of the day, Talent Acquisition is only as good as the people they hire.
Re-Engineering Recruiting: Tips for Assessing and Improving your Talent Acquisition Function
By Linda Brenner | February 06, 2023
Now might be the optimal time to re-engineer your recruiting processes. Start by objectively determining which metrics are most important to your business, how to evaluate them and the best approach for improving these outcomes.
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 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.
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.
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