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5 Ways to Fine Tune Talent Acquisition with an Eye on Recession

HR Morning

Whether the economy is softening or hastening towards its next recession, what HR leaders know is that economic swings hit the workforce hard, and make it tougher to fine tune talent acquisition. From 2007 to 2009, the Great Recession swallowed up 8.7 workforce and one no talent or business leader wants to see replicated.

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Career Development: Challenges and Opportunities for Talent.

Strategic HCM

Career Development: Challenges and Opportunities for Talent Managers / 3. The other recent report on talent management I thought was interesting is SHL’s Assessment Trends report. Likewise, formal career development programs were only used by a little more than one-fourth of respondents.

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Want to Bridge the Skills Gap? Look Internally

Aberdeen HCM Essentials

Since the 2008/2009 financial crisis, there has been an emergent skills gap that has plagued almost every industry. In Talent Acquisition Trends 2016: Candidates Take Command (June 2016), Aberdeen found that employers are taking a hard, strategic look at their hiring and performance management channels to make them more employee driven.

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6 Key HR Strategies in a Recession

Zenefits

The 2007-2009 Great Recession is fresh in the public consciousness as another potential economic downturn looms over the market. In the economic crisis and recession of 2009, 55% of HR leaders expanded their layoffs, and 41% started downsizing. But this isn’t 2009. Any of the above. Back to Vote.

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#BersinIMPACT: Mentoring for Career Development ~ HR to HR 2.0.

Strategic HCM

BersinIMPACT: Mentoring for Career Development. The other process area that seemed to get a fair amount of focus at Bersin Impact, other than performance management , learning / leadership development, and recruiting , was career development. Five Simple Goal-setting Guidelines. 1 year ago. Advertisements.

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22 Best HR Podcasts to Listen to in 2023

Empuls

It includes discussions that offer varied perspectives and experiences of professionals such as Scott Stratten and Jason Lauritsen on work, leadership, and career development-related issues. HR Happy Hour The HR Happy Hour, which debuted in 2009, is both a popular podcast and a web radio program.

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Challenges and Opportunities for Talent Managers / 2 - Strategic HCM

Strategic HCM

.” I am therefore a bit confused by one of the results in the survey which is that unavailability of key skills has dropped once again as a key threat to business growth prospects (loosing the gains from 2009 and falling back again to 2009 / 2010 levels, having been reported as the very top threat to business growth in 2008 and before).