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  Employee Transition.  Outplacement.  Reductions In Force Support.  Whatever you call it, it’s the part of the Talent Lifecycle that we don’t like to dwell on, however it’s something that has been on the rise through good times and bad.  The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)reported that since 1996 the number of layoffs of [...]

Recruitment is Branding. Recruitment is Marketing. Recruitment is Sales…. and so it goes. This is a conversation that has been evolving for over 20 years. Of course there are nuances to Recruitment that differentiate it from corporate branding, marketing, or sales, but at its core the analogy has stood up to the test of time. [...]

Culture.  The HR Technology market is filled with vendors attempting to quantify it for Employers via cumbersome survey instruments.  Once quantified, the idea is that it can then be leveraged to match employees that fit best, and the result is an employee will be more engaged, more productive, and stay with you longer. No one [...]

We’re well on our way to completing more than 120 briefings as a part of #hrwins.  This Trend Report is focused on the innovation and focus we’re seeing in, what we’ll call, the broad HR Technology category of “matching”. Human Resources spends a considerable amount of time attempting to make matches via a variety of data [...]

Over the last 24 months, a number of tools have crept up promising to measure your influence in social media.  These tools all take some core measurements (followers, retweets, mentions, etc.) across your social networks and then attempt to tell you how influential you are in social media.  Some go as far as to assign [...]

HR Tech is over.  Most of us have traveled back to our homes and offices.  Like every other consultant/analyst/blogger attending the show, I bring you my HR Tech debrief.  Mine is written from the Vendor Marketing/Sales/Messaging perspective.  You’re not going to get product analysis here… HR Tech lived up to it’s reputation as the premier [...]

Five days (3 business days) until HR Tech kicks off.  You’re mailing it in at this point, right? For a group that makes their money convincing everyone that social media is fixing everything from recruiting to employee communications, they sure aren’t taking their own medicine. If you’ve been following along, you know that I’ve been [...]

Six days (4 business days) until HR Tech kicks off.  Ready yet?  On auto-pilot? I’m indexing all of the buzz about HRTech.  Literally.  ALL OF THE BUZZ on the internet about HRTech.  I’ve been doing it since the end of August. The technology infrastructure we put in place allows me to look at all of [...]