As organizations respond to the tough financial environment and a lessened (albeit temporary) demand for talent, many are considering outsourcing their … Read more
A Skilled Workforce Is a Cash Multiplier
This article, the first in a series, covers some of the dramatic changes human capital management has undergone during this last year. This series of … Read more
Countering Layoffs with Round-World Thinking
You have to wonder, why is it that every time there’s an economic slowdown, the RIF, redundancy, right-sizing, and layoff mindset takes over, and … Read more
Talent Swapping: Hiring Without Impacting Headcount
It’s ironic that, at the same exact time that CFOs are instituting hiring freezes and demanding that we add “no new headcount,” there … Read more
Knowledge is Power: The Value of Research
Used properly, research is perhaps the most powerful tool in the world of marketing and advertising. Marketing departments use several forms of research to … Read more
Data Minefields in Global Recruitment
In recent years cross-border and multinational recruitment has increased tremendously, be it recruiting foreign nationals to work in North America or … Read more
Recruiting Trends: A Brief Survey
Will you help me ? and your fellow readers? This has been an extraordinary year ? a year of tragedies and events that were unimaginable. Because of the … Read more
Six-Sigma Hiring
I keep hearing about Six-Sigma hiring. I guess it was only time before HR started using quality improvement tools. I just hope they are ready to discover … Read more
OFCCP: Friend or Foe?
If anything has ever kept a staffing director up at night, it’s worrying about an OFCCP audit. Or, worse yet, the fear of bad PR, or maybe even a … Read more
Making a Business Case in HR: An Illustrated Example
The following is an actual example illustrating how to successfully make a business case in HR. It follows the format outlined in Parts One and Two of this … Read more