Human Resource Technology

Expand your survey’s potential by linking its content to your firm’s business priorities, and create a culture that fuels your organization’s strategy.

In today’s business world, there is usually a lot of travelling taking place to secure contracts, meet clients, or visit satellite offices around the world. However, all of this moving around can be costly and poorly managed. Nevertheless, there are simple solutions for your travel managers. Download this whitepaper to learn how to properly manage your organization’s air travel budget and understand how air contracts are built and designed in order to balance your organization’s maximum cost savings with achievable contract obligations.

Learn the 10 best practices for implementing your corporate travel program and see how you can easily create a transition strategy, secure change management support, de-implement your incumbent travel management company, and shape a policy that meets your organizations unique travel needs.

In this recorded webcast, you will learn how to attract game changers to your organization by creating a strong employment brand. During our proprietary research, iCIMS was able to identify some key areas that help attract the best talent. In the webcast, we will share facts and technology tips to make your organization a hiring force in the industry.

In the 2014 Workforce Talent and Workforce Management Outlook survey, Human Capital Media Advisory Group, the research arm of Workforce magazine, in partnership with Cornerstone OnDemand set out to discover where HR leaders are seeing their greatest successes and feeling the greatest pain. Additionally, we explored how HR leaders are setting priorities for the coming years. While there are surveys that address how the needs of HR vary, many focus on the difference between small and large organizations with the assumption that midsized organizations are similar enough to large organizations not to require extra focus. To get a different perspective, we looked specifically at how the HR function in midsized organizations compares to their much larger counterparts. Are they as similar as is popularly believed?

Everyone loves a good spreadsheet. But if you have more than a few hundred employees, tracking performance, training, and succession with them is the stuff of nightmares. Our clients shared their reasons for making the switch from spreadsheet to software. Which one tops your list?

While development is critical to engagement, performance, and succession, its overall effectiveness is determined by the quality of an organization’s leaders. Learn How!

Employees don’t leave companies. They leave bad managers. Bad managers are the number one reason employees quit. We’ve all experienced them at some point. They are the leading cause of employee disengagement. Today, 70 percent of North American employees feel indifferent or disengaged at work, costing the U.S. economy nearly $500 billion every year* in lost productivity, substandard performance, and employee turnover. Please download the white paper to learn more!

As recruiting continues its evolution into a more marketing focused function, recruiters are increasingly craving enhanced technology that speaks directly to their needs. But getting executive leadership to understand this fact—and invest in recruiting beyond the generic HR suite—is still an uphill battle. If you band with the right alliances, however, and uncover a vendor solution that can deliver the ROI you need while satisfying your IT and reporting requirements, you will make a strong business case that executives will have difficulty denying.

Here’s a look at seven of the top “sins” recruiters commit today, along with valuable direction for correcting your bad habits.

Growing organizations have different hiring needs than companies in low growth mode. Companies that plan to grow must consider their recruitment technology and how it will impact their ability to scale. When businesses start to expand, they are often required to change many of their recruiting and talent acquisition practices. Typically, emerging companies find themselves unprepared when it comes to increasing workforce changes. The solution: Implementing Talent Acquisition Software to streamline all hiring needs.

There are many factors to consider when deciding on what kind of system to implement for talent acquisition. Some companies have decided to go, in what they believed to be, the cheaper route and build a system in house. Unfortunately, many factors get overlooked in the process, which leads to a greatly heightened cost and a lack of system functionality. In this whitepaper, you will learn what a best-in-breed talent acquisition system can offer your organization that would otherwise be lost if built in house.

In this whitepaper, explore how cutting-edge video technology can be leveraged to optimize all aspects of the recruitment process: • Video as a Candidate Engagement Tool • Video as a Screening Tool • Video as an Interviewing Tool • Video as an Onboarding Tool Now is the perfect time to dive deeper into modern video technology to see what video can do to support your recruiting staff, your candidate engagement, and your bottom line.

Learn how to simplify your workplace and create an environment that fosters collaboration and allows employees to seamlessly work from home or in the office.

Providing healthcare is a global, multi-level proposition that transcends single providers. The stakeholders in Cerner’s world are not only clinicians, hospitals, and medical device partners but another whole world of consultants, researchers, and industry experts. Cerner leverages Jive Social Business Software to address a number of their key social business imperatives, including accelerating innovation and providing community-based support. They put Jive to work not only to make their own business operations more productive but to connect priorities and people outside of Cerner to solve broad healthcare issues for the greater good.

Keeping up with the speed of business is rarely easy, but with iContent, your organization can keep pace with its learning needs. Don’t wait to make a move until courses fail to load or slow down, course completions and scores aren’t tracked, or critical content updates don’t occur, jeopardizing compliance.

Why learning with analytics bridges the gaps in your workforce’s capabilities, improves performance and delivers a quantifiable ROI.

Effective onboarding is the key to getting new employees up and running both quickly and smoothly. Organizations able to ramp up new employee role clarity and confidence during onboarding by specifically identifying answers to the who, what, when, and where for getting things done enjoy higher new employee performance, higher job attitudes such as satisfaction and commitment, and decreased turnover. The use of technology to accomplish these twin goals of clarity and confidence is critical in today’s competitive landscape.

Learn how your HR team can take a proactive position to optimize today’s and tomorrow’s workforce and see how your employee’s productivity and efficiency will increase. Download the whitepaper to read the full report!

Improve confidence in your technology plans and break through the vendor hype with this real-world look at technologies actually being deployed by Infrastructure functions across the globe.

If you’re like everyone else in HR today, you’re probably thinking about how your organisation can handle data better. Maybe your executives want the power to make data-driven decisions from comprehensive workforce analytics. Perhaps you’d like to streamline the efficiency of your HR operation or put more actionable information in the hands of your line managers and employees. With the elixHR Platform, you can integrate your HR data and processes so your people can access information quickly and easily, and make better decisions. You can also lower your operational costs because you can increase efficiency and eliminate the need to replace HR systems that you already have in place.

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.

Engaging Your Employees & Improving Adoption and Retention of Key Business Messages Today's Corporate Communications leaders are tasked with making their employees smarter about your company's business, elevating their engagement and knowledge around your brand in ways that are impactful, memorable and enables retention of the key messages. Yet in a recent CMO Study conducted by IBM Institute For Business Value, only 20% of CMO's believe that the corporate character and brand are fully understood by the organizations employees. Join us for a 60-minute webinar to discover how how other companies are successfully creating advocates out of their employees and help them to better understand their corporation's key messages through the use of new and exciting technologies.

The insights provided by more than 700 Chief Human Resource Officers around the world show how workforce investment is shifting. Companies are beginning to focus more on growth, expanding into new markets and offering new products and services. But to make the most of potential growth opportunities in today’s dynamic global marketplace, organizations need to find ways to address the “borders” that are currently impeding their workforces. Based on the key capability gaps revealed in this study, we believe organizations should focus on three critical workforce imperatives: cultivating creative leaders, mobilizing for speed and flexibility and capitalizing on collective intelligence.

This study of 230 organizations, conducted in January and February 2013, will explore the best practices organizations use to transform basic new hire orientations into strategic initiatives and how they leverage world-class technology to boost productivity, engagement, and retention.