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Only by knowing the changes in
the talent market place in regards to society, economics,
and business can you exploit these instances and use them
as opportunities.
Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006
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Winning Retention and Engagement Initiatives to be Featured at Career Systems International Conference
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Posted by Sean Rehder
"Retaining and Engaging talent continues to be a critical challenge in organizations worldwide. Because of today's focus, Career Systems International will hold a three day conference, Engaging Hearts and Minds, in partnership with HR.com's Employers of Excellence event, focused specifically on today's talent challenges.
Engaging Hearts and Minds," a conference featuring outstanding results and best practices in employee retention and engagement from leading organizations, will be held in Las Vegas, NV October 24th through 27th by Career Systems International. The conference is being held in partnership with HR.com and will run concurrently with their fifth annual "Employers of Excellence" conference. Attendees at the Career Systems International conference will also be able to attend all workshops and keynote speeches at the HR.com conference, including presentations by Lance Secretan, Margaret Wheatley, Patrick Lencioni, Tony Schwartz, Steven Levitt, and seven other well-known presenters. These joint events will be held at Las Vegas’ brand new Red Rock Casino and Spa." Full article.
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Plateau Unveils First Industry Solution to Combine Performance Management and Pre-Packaged Learning in a Single Product
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Posted by Sean Rehder
"Plateau Systems, a leading provider of software for developing, managing and optimizing organizational skills and talent, today announced Plateau Performance Business Edition, the only performance management solution in the industry to combine performance and learning course content into a single product. Employees can instantly take action to reach performance targets and develop critical skills through pre-loaded learning courses embedded directly inside of their performance plans. By providing on-demand performance management and learning content in a single solution at a single price, Plateau Performance Business Edition delivers significant cost savings and substantially reduces implementation time when compared with other offerings that require customers to purchase, deploy and integrate separate performance, learning and learning content products - often from different vendors. "
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Posted on Tuesday, August 08, 2006
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Breaking the Motivational Code
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Posted by Sean Rehder
By Jerry Pounds
"Unlike the DaVinci Code, the Motivational Code has yet to be broken. And as they trade argument and counter-argument about what makes us tick, our best and brightest management theorists seem to be suffering from chronic schizophrenia.
...Most organizational behavior experts, gurus and consultants weave their incantations from the motivational theories of "authorities". If you trace these back to source, you wind up reading B.F. Skinner, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler and Carl Rogers. "
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Study: Franchises keep on trucking
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Posted by Sean Rehder
By Adina Genn
"The booming franchise industry will keep on keeping on.
Since 2003, nearly 900 concepts have been introduced, 500 of them in the last year alone, according to a new study from the International Franchise Association, a Washington trade group that consists of franchisors, franchisees and suppliers.
Released Aug. 1, the study was conducted with FRANdata, an Arlington, Va.-based research firm, and based on research pulled from a database of 2,500 franchise concepts. "
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Keeping young hires is the issue
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Posted by Sean Rehder
By Michelle Keller, Los Angeles Times
"For graduating college seniors, the job market is, well, awesome, dude. Hiring is up sharply and corporate competition for the class of 2006 is hot.
But for employers, the real challenge isn't getting freshly minted grads to sign on. It's getting them to stay.
Employers and hiring experts say the younger generation no longer approaches the first job as a nest for the next 10 or five, or even three, years.
'There's no longer a stigma in changing jobs frequently," said Eileen Kohan, executive director of the career center at University of Southern California. "It's not unnatural for someone to have several jobs in their first five years out of college.'"
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Accenture offloads recruitment
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Posted by Sean Rehder
ACCENTURE has offloaded its Australian IT recruitment business, handing its $65 million
Diversiti arm to listed local recruitment firm Chandler Macleod.Diversiti - which specialises in contract and permanent staff for corporations and government departments doing IT rollouts - has 450 contractors deployed to 100 clients in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra.
The part-cash, part-percentage of earnings acquisition will see Accenture divest its only recruitment business.
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Posted on Monday, August 07, 2006
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Webinar: Assessing and Managing Risk in Contract Workforce Management
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Posted by Sean Rehder
As rich as the potential rewards are for successfully engaging and deploying a stable of contract talent, there are risks associated with turning over a significant portion of the work that a company does to individuals who don't, technically, "work for the company." Some of these risks are business risks; for example, what are the implications on ownership of intellectual property? Some of the risks are financial: how does the process of dealing with the IRS change? Other potential risks are related to compliance.
In Part Three of this series we will look at how the best companies are managing these risks, starting with how to determine potential exposure points then moving into the various methods companies use to mitigate them.
When: Thu, Aug 10 / 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET
Where: On The Web
REGISTER
I'll be a panel member for this event, hope to "see you there."
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Posted on Wednesday, August 02, 2006
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Spoke frees up its database
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Posted by Sean Rehder
"Spoke Software opened up free access to its database of 30 million business contacts Monday, threatening traditional business contact providers such as Hoover’s, OneSource, and Harte-Hanks, but also raising privacy concerns.
The San Mateo, California-based company is mainly targeting salespeople, recruiters, job seekers, and marketers who could find this information useful. The database consists of contacts at the executive, managerial, and directorial level, mainly at organizations in the United States.
The database contains the corporate contact information of individuals, including their title, job history, email patterns, phone numbers, and address."
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Posted on Monday, July 31, 2006
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Demographic Shifts Transform Law Office Management: New Report Explores Trends Affecting the Legal Profession
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Posted by Sean Rehder
"Demographic shifts, globalization and increased corporate governance are three key factors changing the way law offices operate, according to a just-released white paper from Robert Half Legal, a legal staffing service specializing in attorneys, paralegals and other highly skilled legal professionals. The paper is titled The Changing Face of the Legal Industry and is part of the company's continuing Future Law Office project. The research also highlights how legal employers are responding to the needs and priorities of an increasingly diverse, multigenerational workforce in order to recruit and retain top talent, and remain competitive."
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Hewitt Experts Available to Discuss Strategies for Managing the Next Generation of Talent
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Posted by Sean Rehder
"Employers are facing an increasingly global, diverse and complex workforce that moves at a faster pace each year. As this new workforce generation emerges, most companies are not prepared to handle the challenges ahead, and in a knowledge economy - where people are the greatest source of competitive advantage, as well as the largest and fastest growing expense - this can prove to be a costly mistake."
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Posted on Thursday, July 27, 2006
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SuccessFactors' Customer, Edwards Lifesciences, Featured in Workforce Performance Solutions' Succession Planning Webinar; BioTech Leader to Showcase
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Posted by Sean Rehder
"SuccessFactors, the leading provider of on-demand performance and talent management solutions, announced today that their customer Edwards Lifesciences, a leader in cardiovascular disease treatments, will be spotlighted in an upcoming Workforce Performance Solutions Magazine succession planning webinar. The online event, "Talent Management: Developing The Competitive Advantage," will outline how Edwards Lifesciences has instituted a rigorous succession planning initiative, fully endorsed and supported by global management, that is aimed to identify and groom the talent necessary to maintain their leadership and competitive position."
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True Talent Management Looks at the Family Portrait
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Posted by Sean Rehder
When you're hiring or promoting an employee, don't forget the "family factor."
~ by Roger Pearman
"You promote or hire a talented executive and learn that the whole family shows up for the assignment. Salary can be great, relocation expenses thorough, and the benefits package ideal. Yet, none of these insure that a candidate will take, or be successful in, the promotion or relocation, because if the family system doesn’t like the fit, trouble abounds."
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Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2006
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Conference offers strategies to attract and keep talent
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Posted by Sean Rehder
"As millions of baby boomers approach retirement age, employers should be giving thought to replacing them with the best possible workers. In addition, they need to focus on retaining their top performers, who, surveys show, are increasingly ready and willing to jump ship for something better. It has all the making of a perfect storm for human resources managers."
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