Job Listings Abound, but Many Are Fake | The Wall Street Journal

Talent Acquisition

The candidate experience—the total of all interactions a job seeker has with a company during the hiring process—is vital to a firm’s employment brand and ability to attract top talent. And while one of the first touchpoints of the candidate experience is the initial job posting and application process, I increasingly hear of cases where candidates …

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Supercharge Your Employee Listening Strategy White Paper | i4cp

Leadership & Culture

Most organizations collect employee feedback to understand employees’ opinions, concerns, and needs. And while the annual employee engagement survey is still used to solicit feedback in many organizations, most acknowledge that they need more than surveys to understand employee sentiment. As such, firms are increasingly using a multi-pronged approach to receiving, processing, and responding to …

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A Manager’s Mini Guide To Identifying and Assessing Leadership Potential | Allan Church via Training Industry

Talent Management

Many organizations conduct a talent review process—where one goal is to accurately identify (and develop) employees with the greatest leadership potential. However, determining leadership potential can be difficult and is fraught with challenges, ranging from biases to invalid selection criteria. To help organizations more effectively differentiate “potential,” this article by Allan Church distinguishes three categories of …

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Global Performance Management Report 2023 | The Talent Strategy Group

Talent Management

This newly released report provides insights into the practices organizations use (and don’t use) today in performance management (PM). Based on feedback from over 300 companies worldwide representing all sizes, the practices are organized into five sections: goal setting, coaching and feedback, reviewing, training, and technology. A few findings include: 1) 88% of companies have redesigned their PM in …

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The Future of Recruiting 2023 Report | LinkedIn Talent Solutions

Talent Acquisition

As the recruiting and hiring landscape continue to shift, this 29-page report shares 17 predictions that will influence talent acquisition practices. The insights are based on interviews with global talent leaders, surveys of thousands of recruiters, and analysis of billions of data points generated on LinkedIn. The report is broken into five sections, including 1) The Role …

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Managing External Contributors in Workforce Ecosystems | MIT Sloan Management Review

Talent Management

The number of contingent workers (CW)—those performing gig, contract, or freelance work—continues to grow in many organizations. However, firms often lack an integrated approach to managing their CW. This article provides considerations for integrating the management of both employees and external contributors.  It draws from a case study on Cisco, which has over 50,000 contingent workers — …

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Aligning Talent Management and Global Mobility: Shifting from Relocation Management to Global Talent Brokering | Mercer

Talent Management

This 13-page paper provides ideas on how to drive greater alignment and linkages between an organization’s talent management and mobility teams. It argues that talent mobility—often associated with relocating talent—needs to be discussed in the broader context of the talent management cycle — including selection and long-term career management. However, the limited purview of many …

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The Skills Revolution and the Future of Learning and Earning | World Government Summit 2023 and McKinsey

Talent Development

Much has been written about how the half-life of skills—meaning that the skill is about half as valuable as before— continues to decline rapidly. For example, an IBM Institute for Business Value report notes that the average half-life of many skills has shortened from five to two years and a half. Another report by World Economic Forum shows that 40% of current …

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The Workforce Well-being Imperative | Deloitte Insights

Leadership & Culture

Employee well-being (EWB) remains a top priority for many organizations, as noted in my one-page summary on 2023 talent priorities. And while many firms are implementing EWB programs to support the well-being of their workers, this new article brings to light other factors—beyond programs—that influence EWB. Based on a survey of 1,274 US workers across a …

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The Promise (and Risk) of Boomerang Employees | Harvard Business Review

Talent Acquisition

Much has been written about how employees are leaving their jobs in search of an employee value proposition (e.g., pay, more flexible work arrangements) that better aligns with their values and preferences. However, some of these workers have learned that the “grass isn’t always greener” when moving to another company or organization. As many organizations …

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