Have you ever been sucked into email instead of finishing an important report that could have a profound impact on the company or dropped everything to attend a hastily called meeting, even though it was merely a status update with no significant outcomes? As most of us do, you probably suffer from urgency bias—the tendency… Read more »
Be the first to know when we have an announcement. Sign up for our newsletter! Does anyone else have their popcorn out? Workday has found itself in an unlikely, rather confusing, and super uncomfortable lawsuit. And the outcome could impact every employer and any recruiting software vendor. To catch you up, Workday is being sued… Read more »
To excel in hiring, recruiting teams must engage in a cyclical process of continually evaluating and leveraging data to refine their workflows, technology, and processes to reach optimal outcomes. Operational excellence in hiring isn’t a static destination, but a journey marked by perpetual small enhancements. Just as organizations focus on improving functions like sales… Read more »
Making people count by optimizing your Human Capital Return on Investment (HCROI) could be the biggest driver of a company’s economic value creation.
Dr. Solange Charas, human capital consulting expert and the Founder of HCMoneyball, explains the importance of good human capital management and why practitioners must join the dots between their talent initiatives and the company’s financial performance to get the ultimate ROI from their human capital investments. Human capital management is about maximizing the potential and… Read more »
Like the US, the UK suffers from a shortage of service, industry, and trade workers. Immigration provides some much-needed labor, but are there other ways to fill those half-million vacancies? Officially, 4.3 percent of people in the UK are unemployed—about 1.4 million adults. They’re competing for 898,000 job vacancies that need to be filled. This… Read more »
While Human Capital Return on Investment measures the aggregated success of your talent acquisition and workforce management efforts, it doesn’t explicitly guide you on where to focus future spending. Here’s how to select the initiatives to give you a long-term performance edge. In part one of this two-part series, we discussed the benefits of… Read more »
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on June 11, 2024 and has been updated to include several key trends shaping the landscape of Human Capital ROI in 2025. Most traditional talent acquisition and human resources performance metrics, such as cost per hire and turnover rate, don’t predict organizational performance. So, what metrics should… Read more »
All organizations want an accelerated hiring process to deliver high-quality talent faster. However, prioritizing speed and efficiency above all else can often counter an organization’s mission, especially if that mission demands a more nuanced, candidate-centered approach. Let’s say you have to choose between two applicants for a job. The first applicant truly understands what your… Read more »
Marathon application processes are like a second job for candidates who resent having to jump through higher and harder hoops. Recruiters clearly need to screen for quality, but are you pushing talent away by demanding too much too soon? “It bugs me to no end when I’m applying for a job, and they ask… Read more »