How Much Should an Executive Resume Cost?
Shopping for a new resume is not like shopping for a new car. There’s no ‘blue book’ to tell you what you should be paying and it’s hard to find even a ballpark figure.
Love Blooms In The Workplace, So Be Prepared
Yikes! Here it is two days before Valentine’s Day and not a romance story in sight on ERE.
Are "High Potential" Programs an Anachronism?
Has your company labeled you a " high potential ?" Do you know? Do you care? There's a debate growing among human resource professionals on the usefulness of "hi-po" programs. In theory, the idea of singling individuals out for this label allows companies to focus their development resources and plum opportunities where they will have the greatest return — on people who have the capacity to grow into higher levels of leadership (typically, hierarchical leadership) in the company. In some European companies, the word "talent" is used in a similar way
T-Shaped People, Jobs, and Recruiting
Recruiting is about to be forced to start looking for people and assessing them in very different ways than they have. The nature of organizations is transforming right under our noses, but most of us are too deep in the forest to see what is happening. Over the past 100 years business owners and human resources folks created the concept of a job as a way of looking at and doing work. We define a job as a set of skills, experiences, and activities that a single person does.
Promises, Promises: How to Identify a Bad Hiring Test (Part II of II)
In Part One I explained why a test user has to be exceptionally careful about trusting a vendor’s claim their test is suitable for hiring. Without due diligence on the part of the test user, junk tests lead to hiring too many wrong people and turning away too many right ones, amounting to an estimated 20% and 50% of yearly payroll. In this section, I’ll continue explaining how to identify good hiring tests. Personality Versus Skill One would think a score on a personality test would predict a skill (i.e., do high analytical-trait scores actually mean high analytical skills?)
Taleo Grows Revenue, Turns a Profit, and Beats the Street
Alone among the publicly held HR technology companies, Taleo reported it both grew revenue and earned a profit in 2009. The company released its financial results for 2009, today, which, its chairman and CEO Michael Gregoire called, “A truly outstanding year.” Taleo had revenue of $198.4 million and profit of $1.3 million. In 2008, Taleo lost $8.1 million on revenue of $168.4 million. The bottom line got a huge boost in the 4th quarter when the company’s profit was $4.6 million, which included a one-time $2.5 million from the purchase of Vurv 18 months ago.
Worst and Best for SuccessFactors
The company lost money, but it significantly improved its performance over 2008. A year ago it reported losing $65 million.
How to Get Through a Big Change Without Having a Cow
I haven’t blogged for quite a while. That’s not because I ran out of things to say (My husband will confirm that I never run out of things to say) or because I just got lazy and spent the last month eating chocolate and watching reruns of The Golden Girls . I haven’t blogged because our site was being redesigned. Once the blog content had been moved, I had to wait for the new site to go live before adding any new posts
