Workforce Planning The goal of workforce planning is to adequately predict the hiring, training and retention requirements of an organization. Workforce planning can seem so complicated that it never gets done. Visionary systems suggest that a combination of scenario planning and deep skills assessment can lead to a decision-making framework. I favor the back of […]
Intro It is possible to know everyone you intend to recruit five years in advance. Not only is it possible, it’s the most strategic form of recruiting. By clearly articulating your requirements, you can transform Human Capital Acquisition from a reactive game into a proactive offensive strategy. The problem with the term “Human Capital” is […]
The silos of HR get in the way of excellence. A comprehensive integrated human capital strategy results in well trained employees in the right place at the right time doing the right thing. The goal ought to be a system that anticipates, executes and shifts focus on the fly while the team gets better and […]
Auren Hoffman is the CEO of Rapleaf. Rapleaf helps B2C companies give their consumers a better experience by providing automated search services for each consumer. We’ve written about Rapleaf earlier this year. Here’s his take on Effectively Using Email To Make Introductions. The Art of the Email Introduction How to introduce two people so that […]
It’s amazing how simplistically things can be described when they are devoid of operational experience and limited to the perspective of recruiting. I’ve come across a view of the Human Capital Marketplace that describes the “Talent Lifecycle” as Attract-Recruit-Hire-Retain. It’s as if candidates didn’t exist in advance of requirements and didn’t have a variety of […]
Five years ago, I wrote the following article. It’s about the reasons that people hate HR. It was prompted by an article in Fast Company that is cited in the piece. Five years ago, there was some promise that HR would come under scrutiny and transform itself. I don’t think that that’s what happened. Does […]
In the United States and parts of Europe, conventional wisdom holds that job boards are dead. Personalized recruiting generated by an array of social media powered by artificial intelligence is on the verges of wiping out the business. Social media, in that view, is a revolution of the same scale as the original emergence of […]
Social Media Reconsidered IV I live in Sonoma County in California near the ocean. It’s a remote outpost. Almost no one lives in my neighborhood. There are lots of raptors and you can hear the sea lions barking at night. But, it’s a long way to anywhere. Periodically, I go out into the world to […]
Social Media Reconsidered III Calling it a decision makes my Social Media Siesta sound like the work of a much smarter person. Truth is that life caught up with me. Years of routine web publishing, 18 solid months of Tweet-aly-dee, a range of Facebook experiments and a host of other assignments had me in the […]
Social Media Reconsidered II Old friend Colin Kingsbury (who is the president of HRMDirect) sent along a note in response to the first article in this series. ” My take on social media is that while they present some unique modalities compared to other communication channels, they are not sui generis. For instance, consumer products […]
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