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Data Point #6: We can’t succeed without Millennials
Managers and supervisors (especially in the Baby Boomer cohort) in almost every type and size of business have been known to lament the lack of loyalty and so-called business savvy in the Millennial...
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Data Point #7: Job security is the #1 talent attraction magnet. Wait. What?
In doing some research for a speech I’m giving, I came across The Talent Management and Rewards Imperative for 2012 from Towers Watson and WorldatWork. It’s chock full of interesting data based on...
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Data Point #8: Risk of talent and skills shortages
I recently came across a fascinating report published by Lloyd’s, the world’s leading market for specialist insurance. Lloyd’s Risk Index is based on a survey of global business leaders by the...
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Data Point #9: Employer Loyalty Isn’t Dead? Wait. What?
MetLife published its 10th Annual Study of Employee Benefit Trends on March 19th, 2012. At 80 pages, it’s a read. But it’s a fascinating read. The report shows clearly that the strong role of...
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Data Point #11: Talent optimism vs. realism
We’re surrounded by all kinds of data points about the talent/skill shortage. I wrote about it here and here. Today we have two data points: one comes from SHRM’s Q2 2012 Jobs Outlook Survey Report...
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Certificates: the New Associate’s Degree?
Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce has published a new report: Certificates: Gateway to Gainful Employment and College Degrees. I’m a big fan of a previous report from...
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HR Talent Shortage
SHRM has just released a new report in its series on The Ongoing Impact of the Recession. The current release focuses on the Manufacturing Industry. Previous reports have focused on the Federal...
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Is Your Workplace Engaged?
My friends at Achievers are collecting applications for inclusion in the 2012 Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces™ Awards. As an HR business leader you should think about applying. Today. Because time...
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the C-Suite…
The Career Engagement Group from New Zealand recently conducted an online survey of over 1,000 employed people ages 18-65. The focus of the survey was to understand the career aspirations, agility...
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From Tragedy to Triumph
As an employer, how are you feeling about the epidemic that is our high school dropout rate? As an employer, how are you evaluating the quality of students who do manage to graduate from high schools...
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Big Trouble in the Talent Pipeline
I’m not generally big on infographics. I find them self-serving and hard to read and digest. Here’s an exception. It’s called Unprepared for College and was posted on the College@Home.com blog....
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Candidate Experience vs. the Black Hole
A couple of months ago I shared some data from an Aberdeen Group report about benchmarking quality of hire best practices here. It’s a great benchmark list of outcomes. But how about the inputs? More...
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High Cost of ‘Mal-employment’
Professor Andrew Sum from the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University has done a great deal of research on the effect of the most recent recession on the youngest cohorts in our...
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From the Archives: We can’t succeed without Millennials
This was a very popular post from April, 2012. The data is pretty much the same. And it bears repeating. Managers and supervisors (especially in the Baby Boomer cohort) in almost every type and size...
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The best recruitment strategy? Being a Great Place to Work®!
A look at LinkedIn’s recently released “Talent Trends 2014” report provides some interesting data about what’s on the minds of today’s professional workforce. As the study confirms, we live in an age...
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How Bad is Your Succession Management?
“84% of organizations report having a lack of candidates in the pipeline ready to assume open and critical positions.” That’s not good, folks. As we wring our hands on the lack of talent in the...
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Underutilized Recruitment Marketing Tactics
A recent SmashFly publication, the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Report Card for the 2016 Fortune 500, came across my desk a couple of weeks ago. And if you’re involved at all in recruiting talent,...
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