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Recruiting by Relationship to Fill the Candidate Pipeline
 A recent global study found that managing talent is the most critical HR challenge workwide. Learn best practices for sourcing candidates in this important document:

  • Use trusted personal and professional relationships.
  • Use online communities to reveal untapped resources.
  • Upgrade your career site to benefit job seekers and your company.
  • Use advanced software to enhance your search, sorting and filtering capabilities.

Unified Talent Management and the Holy Grail
 Fitting the right person to the right job at the right job has long been the Holy Grail of workforce optimization. Read this article and learn how to achieve this goal:

  • Leverage technology to follow a rigorously disciplined approach.
  • Learn your people's strengths—so you can enable them to reach their potential.
  • Build a talent pipeline model.

Down Economy Offers Upside Opportunities
 Recessionary times don't necessarily mean a poor job market. Successful talent management strategies deliver the twin benefits of lowered costs and increased productivity. Read this paper and learn the secrets to success:

  • Mitigate turnover.
  • Use an automated recruiting platform to manage a higher applicant flow.
  • Merge your recruiting, performance management and succession planning processes.
  • Drive improved business performance.

Managing Global Deployments
World economy expansion and a decline in working-age population have intensified global talent competition. Multinational organizations must attract and retain the most qualified candidates in each operating region. Growing demand in emerging markets and lower labor costs mean offshoring operations. Selecting a global talent management solution requires a detailed business requirement evaluation. Implementation requires extensive planning and preparation. Read case study examples of success and learn the importance of these key areas:

  • Business Goals and Objectives
  • Organizational Readiness
  • Project Planning
  • Implementation
  • Post Implementation

Finding Top Talent: To Grow Big You Have to Go Small
 The struggle to find top talent continues to be an obstacle to growth for many companies. Learn how to overcome this barrier in this paper:

  • Be picky and look for quality, not quantity.
  • Use smaller, specific networking web sites to find qualified candidates.
  • Build a list of niche sites that meet your needs.

Staffing Topologies: Mapping Staffing Processes for Complex Organizations
Talent is the primary differentiator for high performance companies. They use similar talent management strategies to align workforce with business — enabled by technology and driven by metrics and processes. Yet, each organization's staffing landscape defines a unique staffing topology, much like a fingerprint. Learn how the marketplace influences organizational change and how topologies reflect it. Read more about:

  • Elements of a staffing topology.
  • Putting staffing topologies to work.
  • Staffing topology case study.
  • Tools and best practices.

Performance 2.0: Where Talent Drives Business Performance
 The world of Human Resources is undergoing a revolution. Read this paper and learn how to stay at the top of the game:

  • Drive a talent management mindset throughout your organization.
  • Leverage technology to help drive success.

The Staffing Value Chain: The Role of Staffing in Driving Shareholder Value
Agile organizations succeed in the market. Because they can rapidly realign their workforce to increase productivity, enhance brand equity, and drive shareholder value. Using talent management, they seize opportunities to assess, acquire, and deploy people to grow their business – regardless of complexity, language, or cultural boundaries. See how industry leaders gain strategic advantage and demonstrate immediate results. Learn more about:

  • Value creation potential of talent management.
  • Costs of low-quality staffing processes.
  • Contributions to productivity and retention.
  • Risk reduction through consistent processes.
  • Problems with traditional methods.
  • Increased shareholder return.
  • Real-world implementation examples.
  • Guidelines for talent management selection.

The Financial and Operational Impacts of the Hourly Hiring Effect
Some organizations hire hundreds or thousands of hourly workers each week, often without any insight into the collective effect on the financial performance, productivity, and brand. Due to large populations of hourly workers and high volume hiring needs, they may be losing tens of millions of dollars annually due to the Hourly Hiring Effect. What’s the antidote? The right combination of configurable technology, robust functionality, and expertise provides:

  • Compelling and positive candidate experiences.
  • Single platform for hourly, professional, and contingent labor.
  • Wide variety of scientifically validated behavioral assessments.
  • Visibility and consistency across all locations with a robust reporting.
  • Integration of background checking and tax credit screening.
  • Staffing processes that are right for your organization.

Leveraging ERP HRIS Investments with Best of Breed Staffing Management Solutions
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are used in HR departments to manage employment lifecycles and workforce planning. Beginning with hiring and ending with headcount, these events fit the traditional ERP transaction architecture. However, they do not support real-time talent initiatives. Should talent management become part of an ERP strategy? Or is a focused talent system with seamless integration a better alternative? The answer lies in process. Learn more about these key topics:

  • ERP systems provide critical transactional human resources management.
  • Collaboration is the key to a successful hiring process.
  • Driving relationships rather than transactions.
  • Staffing processes fuel enterprise productivity—but require real-time data propagation.
  • The benefits of a best-of-breed staffing process management approach.

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