talent practices

Hiring and retaining software engineers is hard-- and it's only getting more difficult. A hiring strategy that allows engineering managers to source talent from a global pool will bring a wider range of skills and experience, reduce turnover, and attract the 53.3% of developers, as surveyed by stack Overflow, who rank distributed work as the top priority. Andela and our 180+ partner companies have tested and refined expert recommendations for building and maintaining successful distributed teams. Download the ebook for guidelines, best practices, checklists, and tips to help your remote developers ramp quickly, communicate clearly, integrate with the team, and accelerate your team's product development. Download the e-book now.

Compensation managers know that, although budgets are tight, top performers still insist on being rewarded. This complimentary SuccessFactors white paper shows how you can create a strong compensation program. Download it today.

A rehab program is only as good as its staff. Acquiring, retaining and keeping rehab talent engaged is critical for program effectiveness. Staffing issues can burden providers with additional costs and make it hard for them to deliver a consistently high quality of care, but there are key strategies to help relieve the staffing burden. The medical industry is facing a growing talent shortage. Recent estimates predict that America will be short of more than 130,000 doctors by 2025.1 Specialized departments will suffer especially high shortage rates. If healthcare providers want to minimize the impact of this shortage, they must optimize their recruitment and retention practices. This guide details the best strategies for making that happen.

"Outsourcing" often gets a bad name. But when it comes to your recruitment function, partmering with an outside expert can successfully transform your approach to talent acquisition and deliver measurable business results faster.

The Human Resources function has experienced a dramatic transformation over the past century.

The business case for Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is particularly compelling now because of the following trends in this whitepaper.

Cielo embarked on the Talent Acquisition 360 to uncover different stakeholder perspectives on talent acquisition, with the ultimate goal of helping talent leaders plan for the future.

Talent is an organization’s greatest asset. Services and business plans can be copied, but an organization’s people are distinct – a differentiator that can separate a company from its competition.

A few years ago, during one of the toughest economic periods in recent memory, companies were looking for the lowest-cost option for handling recruitment. “Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) was an attractive solution, and cost was often the main driver when contracts were signed,” says Angela Hills, Executive Vice President at Cielo, Inc.

Talent acquisition has changed, and it grows more complex by the day. As the world of employment evolves, so do the tools, tactics and strategies to locate the best talent. To master it all and find the right people for your organization, you need the help of dedicated talent acquisition professionals.

HR leaders hear lots of talk about "getting a seat at the table" among the leadership functions of an organization. But what does "getting a seat" really mean? Simply put, CEOs are demanding a more strategic approach in managing today's workforce needs, as well as in planning for future needs. As an HR leader, how can you take ownership of the talent strategy in your organization? It's time for you to find out. Talent can move the needle in your organization. By exploring six best practices that all HR leaders should follow, this complimentary guide shows you how to earn the respect of fellow business leaders. Download it today.

Compensation managers know that, although budgets are tight, top performers insist on being rewarded. Like never before, the pressure is on to structure incentive plans that ensure that rainmakers stay with an organization. This complimentary SuccessFactors white paper shows how to create a strong compensation program. Download it today.

As competition for talent intensifies, take advantage of social technologies for recruiting. Learn how social and collaboration tools enhance, improve and reinvent recruiting processes, and best practices for developing a social recruiting strategy.

What you see isn’t always what you get with HR, talent, and learning software. Did you know that, even with the rigour frequently put into selection, two-thirds of HR software projects fail to produce at least half of the expected benefits? Or how about that a recent research project from Clarkson University determined that there was no link between HR software and HR’s ability to be more strategic? Even though HR technology is often sold as “best practices in a box,” looks can be deceiving. To avoid being duped by pretty demos of software with no substance and find a partner that can meet the hidden complexities that exist in your unique processes, you need to ask the right questions.

Competition for talent is fierce, and employer branding – or communicating why your company is a great place to work – is becoming a more sophisticated and more critical part of a recruiting strategy. While you communicate an employer brand in many ways, it’s most important on the corporate career site, where you have the opportunity to convert people you’ve touched through other channels into potential future employees. A poor user experience on your career site negatively impacts your employer brand and greatly reduces the chance that people will fill out an application. Download this white paper to discover five best practices that can help make your career site your # 1 recruiting asset.

This paper shares success stories and best practices from other global organizations so you can accelerate execution and results.

Finding talented candidates can be challenging. Automating recruiting can improve candidate quality and increase efficiency. This paper outlines how to reduce time to hire by 50%, reduce cost per hire by 70%, and hire quality people.

Do you know how your company is measuring up against the competition? It's imperative to uncover every distinction that sets your company apart. Your people, or talent, is a valuable asset you can use to impact success.

This paper shares success stories and best practices from other global organizations so you can accelerate execution and results.

It’s not easy being today’s CISO or CIO. With the advent of cloud computing, Shadow IT, and mobility, the risk surface area for enterprises has increased dramatically, while IT budgets have shrunk and skilled cyber security talent is virtually impossible to find. Thankfully, the CIS Top 20 Critical Controls provides a pragmatic approach, offering prioritized guidance on the important steps for implementing basic cyber hygiene practices. With the CIS Top 20 Critical Security Controls, CISOs now have a blueprint for reducing risk and managing compliance. By automating each of these controls, CISOs enable their information security teams to do much more with less, essentially operationalizing good cyber hygiene.

The workforce and the workplace are changing, and HR needs to evolve with them – to better manage a multigenerational talent pool, legions of external workers, and dispersed teams that collaborate digitally across time zones and cultures. Read the best practices guide to learn how to transform HR.

While there are many approaches to attracting diverse candidates, sourcing and pipeline management is one of the most critical. As organizations attempt to increase their sourcing efficiency by narrowing their focus on high-yield sources, they may inadvertently impact their ability to attract or find diverse candidates. Stacia Sherman Garr, VP and Talent Management Research Leader at Bersin by Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting LLP, will share five critical sourcing practices organizations can use to attempt to address this situation, expand their talent pools, and enhance their capability to identify diverse talent. We'll also share Schneider Electric's story of how they've used better sourcing and pipeline management to meaningfully impact their diversity hiring numbers. In this webinar, you'll learn: The role of diversity sourcing in creating an inclusive organization The importance of considering sourcing efficiency and its impact on diversity recruiting Five practices to help impr

How CHROs Deliver Business Impact: Five Things the C-suite Should Know About Talent and How HR Can Deliver It. HR and strategic talent practices can have a significant impact on a business — lowering turnover, increasing employee engagement, retaining your best people, and boosting revenue per employee. Find out what successful CHROs know about creating business impact and leveraging best practices when you download SuccessFactors’ white paper “How CHROs Deliver Business Impact: Five Things the C-suite Should Know About Talent and How HR Can Deliver It.” SuccessFactors knows talent management better than anyone.

Self-insured employers want to cut costs without affecting the quality of coverage available to employees. HR leaders need to provide great benefits that attract talent, but they also need to slow the rising tide of healthcare costs at the same time. In this whitepaper, you’ll see three examples of how benefit teams have cut benefits spending without cutting benefit programs. • The potential savings available with telemedicine programs • The surprising ROI of fertility coverage and care • Best practices for evaluating and implementing onsite clinics

SHL's Global Assessment Trends Report provides human resources professionals and those interested in learning about global assessment practices a comprehensive look at how organizations around the world measure talent.