HR Trends Blog

Talent Acquisition

Recruiting Effectiveness: Quality vs Quality of Candidates

While interviewing a talent acquisition leader for an upcoming podcast, I realized that part of our conversation was a direct tie-in to other…

August 8, 2016

Talent Acquisition

Using Source of Hire Data to Validate Talent Acquisition Efforts

What if you had a way to not only see what sources your candidates were coming from, but which ones delivered you the best people that you ended up…

August 4, 2016

Talent Acquisition

3 Trends Impacting Talent Acquisition Measurement

Note: I have an upcoming report detailing these issues in more detail and would love to send it to you. Just sign up here to receive your own copy of…

July 29, 2016

Learning & Development

Building a Business Case for HCM Technology

Talent leaders that are attempting to select, purchase, and implement HCM technology are often challenged by a lack of experience with the process of…

July 20, 2016

Events

#Inforum2016: Data, Machine Learning, and IoT

This week I’m honored to be a guest at the Inforum 2016 event in NYC. The Infor team has put together a great event and there are more than 8,000…

July 11, 2016

Talent Acquisition

Defining Talent Acquisition Measurement Priorities and KPIs

In our recent Modern Measures of Talent Acquisition study, we asked talent leaders what their most critical priorities are when it comes to measuring…

July 5, 2016

Learning & Development

Delivering a High-Quality Employee Experience

As I traveled home from yet another conference last week, I reflected back on the many conversations I had with talent leaders and vendors and how they…

June 27, 2016

Learning & Development

Building a Skills-Based Organization

I’ve had numerous conversations in the past week about skills in the workplace and their impact on how work gets done (or doesn’t get done). From a…

June 17, 2016

Talent Acquisition

How to Measure Candidate Experience Metrics

Candidate experience matters. Despite companies saying it is increasingly difficult to find and hire quality candidates, many of them are not measuring…

June 13, 2016

insight

Recruitment Marketing & Talent Analytics: The Future of Talent Acquisition

Important things are happening in talent acquisition as we begin 2016, for sure: More companies see the competitive edge gained by providing a positive…

February 3, 2016

insight

Enough with the Big Data BS

If I have to sit through another bullshit presentation, session, or webinar on “Big Data” and its supposed implications for HR, I’m going to lose it…

January 28, 2016

Talent Acquisition

Legacy HCM Systems Beware: The Talent Acquisition Platform Cometh

Is there a single system in the world of HCM that’s more widely hated than the applicant tracking system? According to Key Interval’s Optimal HR Tech…

November 10, 2015