Despite your efforts to locate?? either internally or externally?? the best possible management candidates, at the hiring stage your work has only just … Read more
Forecasting Company Growth for Workforce Plans
In last week’s article, we looked at the “precursor approach” to workforce planning. We saw how using this approach was a great way to … Read more
Recruiting Gold: Mergers and IPO Reports
In my article last month, we looked at some of the obvious uses of layoff reports and talked about some internal controls they offer. But today it’s … Read more
Retention: Beyond Goodies and Gimmicks, Part 2
In the first part of this article series, we discussed why retention strategies based on “goodies and gimmicks” are misguided and how such … Read more
Picking Good Salespeople
I think it is a good idea every so often to take a practical example of a problem and talk about how it could be solved. This is a double-edged sword, … Read more
Anniversaries
We celebrate all kinds of anniversaries in our lives: our own birth or the birth of those close to us, wedding days, the day we proposed to that person … Read more
ERP Vendors: The 800-Pound Gorillas
You were recently hired as the director of staffing for a major corporation. One of the main reasons you accepted the position was because you would be … Read more
Using Precursors for Workforce Planning
There are three parts of all successful workforce plans. It turns out that the three parts are not all equal, however. The first part, which is the … Read more
Managing Bureaucracy
Most people get a laugh out of reading Dilbert comics, especially when they see how closely Dilbert’s work life resembles their own. But at a certain … Read more
DNA for the Next Generation of Online Screening Systems
I view the development of online hiring technology as an evolutionary process. As with all technology systems, online hiring systems are constantly … Read more