July, 2007

article thumbnail

Andrew Taylor

ExactHire

Andrew Taylor joined ExactHire in July 2020 as a Full Stack Developer, and has been developing professionally since 2012. Andrew is eager to collaborate with the ExactHire and DeveloperTown teams to find innovative solutions and make a positive difference in the hiring and onboarding industries. Prior to joining ExactHire, Andrew worked for Stack Sports, a sports technology company, as a lead developer and development team manager.

article thumbnail

What is Talent Management?

Josh Bersin

Talent Management” has become one of the most important buzzwords in Corporate HR and Training today. In this article we will explain the history, principles, and processes of talent management and help readers understand this important area. From Personnel to Strategic HR to Talent Management. To understand why Talent Management has become so important, we.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Writing

Strategic HCM

As well as posting on this blog, I have written, and continue to write on a broad range of business and employment issues for a variety of publications. However, my main work is my book, ' Strategic Human Capital Management: Creating Value through People '; This features case studies from RBS, BT, Orange, Ernst & Young, BBC, the Cabinet Office and other leading organisations (some of which have been developed out of my own consulting projects) and was published by Butterworth Heinemann at th

article thumbnail

The Ten Best Reasons to Be A Mentor

Nobscot

'Jill asked a great question on the Mentor-me-Meg Update post - Why should someone be a mentor? What''s in it for them? To help answer that question, I have put together a list of the top 10 benefits of being a mentor.1) Sharpens your skills. Working with a mentee requires you to stay on top of your game.

53
article thumbnail

An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

article thumbnail

The Bamboo Project Blog: The Rise of the Do-It-Yourself Portal

The Bamboo Project Blog

The Bamboo Project Blog « The Age of Conversation E-Book Coming July 16 | Main | Three Ways to Stand Out From the Crowd » The Rise of the Do-It-Yourself Portal In the past few days, Ive found a number of new portals online. Im starting to wonder if we cant learn a thing or two from whats happening. First, via Eisenblog , came Open Learn Universitys portal , created by Stuart Brown in Netvibes to support OU students and instructors.

More Trending

article thumbnail

High Impact Talent Management: Top 22 High-Impact Processes

Josh Bersin

The Top 22 Business Processes which Drive Business Impact. In 2007 we conducted one of the largest-ever studies of corporate talent management: we interviewed and surveyed more than 750 corporations to gain an understanding of their business problems, their talent challenges, and their levels of maturity and sophistication in 62 different talent management processes.

article thumbnail

Speaking

Strategic HCM

rix, I am an experienced, dynamic and provocative speaker. I also lecture in HR and change management at the Cotrugli Business Academy in Croatia. And I deliver the Human Capital Strategist programme in the UK and Europe for the Human Capital Institute (HCI). Some of the topics I am ready to present on include: Human Capital Management: the art and science of people management and measurement The Social Business: how organisations can harness social media to develop social capital as a basis for

article thumbnail

Bio & Contact Details

Strategic HCM

I graduated from Imperial College, London in 1987 and joined Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) as a systems development consultant. After ten years in IT, change and then HR consulting, I joined Ernst & Young as an HR Director, working firstly in the UK, and then, based in Moscow, covering the former USSR. More recently, I have worked as Head of HR Consulting for Penna and Director of Human Capital Consulting for Buck Consultants (the HR consultancy owned by ACS).

article thumbnail

Consulting

Strategic HCM

The mission of Strategic Dynamics Consultancy Services Ltd is to help organisational and individual clients successfully implement HR strategies in an environment of uncertainty and continual change. Most recently, we have specialised in developing and implementing innovative Human Capital Management (HCM) strategies that extend beyond HR's current agenda.

article thumbnail

The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

article thumbnail

What Is The Best Pricing Model - Dynamic or Static?

Nobscot

'An article in the summer MIT Sloan Management Review on dynamic pricing reminded me how much I dislike the concept of variable and negotiable pricing. Dynamic pricing is described by author Arvind Sahay as "where prices respond to supply and demand in real or near-real time." Sahay suggests that dynamic pricing provides a way to "reap higher profits" in every individual sale.

article thumbnail

Good "Fit" or Employee Discrimination?

Nobscot

'Chick-fil-A Chairman S. Truett Cathy and his sons Dan T., CEO and "Bubba," SVP routinely making hiring and firing decisions based on their applicants'' and employees'' religious and marital status. More astoundingly, they make no attempt to hide the fact and speak openly to the press about it.

article thumbnail

40% Discount on CareerBuilder for Costco Members

Nobscot

'Did you know that if your company is a Costco member, you are eligible for a 40% discount on your job postings with CareerBuilder.com? Since I''m probably the only person that reads the Costco Magazine cover-to-cover, I thought I''d pass news of this discount along. The example provided in the August issue said that for a 30-day posting on CareerBuilder.

article thumbnail

In Praise of Praise

Nobscot

'I always like it when I see a company provide public praise and recognition for one (or more) of their employees. Tonight I ran into a nice post on the Twitter blog from Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey about Twitter "Support Superhero" Crystal. Jack had received an email from a happy customer about the exemplary performance that was provided to him by Crystal.

Company 40
article thumbnail

The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

article thumbnail

Best Mentoring Pairs in TV and Film

Nobscot

'Mentoring is not only popular in companies and associations, it also makes for a great theme in films and television. Peer Resources has compiled a fun, comprehensive "Hall of Fame" list of fictional mentoring relationships.Do you remember any of these?Rounders - 1998 motion picture, directed by John Dahl. John Turturro''s character Joey Knish mentors Matt Damon''s Mike McDermott.

article thumbnail

Mentor Me Meg Mission - Update One

Nobscot

'Aside from feeling a little bit like a stalker, the Mentor-Me-Meg mission is off to a great start. It began with this post explaining my quest for connecting with Meg Whitman, CEO of Ebay. After I posted about the mentoring mission, I enthusiastically charged ahead with some of the steps I had outlined in hopes of quickly reaching my goal.

40
article thumbnail

YouTube-Style Film Ad Contest

Nobscot

'You may have heard about Nobscot''s unique film marketing project/contest. Aspiring filmmakers and marketers are competing to create the best YouTube-style video on why people really leave their jobs.The rules require that the video begins with a person or person-on-the-street being asked via voice-over: "Why did you leave your last job?

article thumbnail

Mentor Me Meg!

Nobscot

'In today''s connected world where everyone is just a few degrees away from everyone else, how difficult do you think it would be to reach out to the person of your choice and ask them to become your mentor? If the CEO & President of a niche HR software company in Honolulu wanted to have, for example, Meg Whitman as her mentor, would she be able to connect with her?

article thumbnail

Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

article thumbnail

The Happy-to-Grumpy Metric

Nobscot

'There''s a nice article on metrics in last month''s (June 2007) CFO magazine. The article brought up my favorite financial ratio - the "Happy to Grumpy" ratio which Wells Fargo uses to measure actively engaged employees to the actively disengaged. Says Wells Fargo''s CFO Howard Atkins, We want to measure what drives our results, and that includes team-member engagement.

Metrics 40
article thumbnail

The Holy Grail of Enterprise 2.0

Nobscot

'Pundits, professors and providers of technology are scurrying around trying to predict how Web 2.0 will successfully enter the workplace. There is talk of wikis and blogs and tagging and collaboration and social networking. Everyone recognizes (correctly) that Web 2.

Tools 40
article thumbnail

Keeping Up With the Joneses

Nobscot

'In my last post, I said that I was a Baby Boomer. It turns out that I was wrong. I have just learned that I''m actually a Jones. A Jones? Apparently a movement to redefine the generations has been brewing for the past 7 or 8 years. From a 1999 news article They grew up watching The Brady Bunch, not Leave It to Beaver. Their attitudes were shaped more by Watergate than JFK.

article thumbnail

It's Not What You Say It's What People Hear

Nobscot

'I hate that this great phrase is being used by political spinmeister Frank Luntz as the subtitle for his new book. Words That Work: It''s Not What You Say, It''s What People Hear is about using verbal chicanery to manipulate people''s viewpoints.

40
article thumbnail

2024 HR Calendar of Important Dates

64% of HR managers lack the time and resources to meet HR compliance challenges and 50% of HR professionals lack confidence in their ability to keep up with ever-changing rules and regulations ( UpCounsel ). This free calendar from Paycor can help.

article thumbnail

Winning at Employee Retention

Nobscot

'An interesting, albeit somewhat rambling, post from Marc Andreessen with his thoughts on employee turnover and retention. Andreesen is the software entrepreneur best known for co-founding Netscape shortly after his graduation from college.

article thumbnail

Workplace Interruptus

Nobscot

'Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought. - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) I''m a Baby Boomer which means I get work done by starting, concentrating and finishing.

ATS 40