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 value… 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 translates… 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 calculating Human… 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 you track… 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 customers… 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 for three… Read more »
As a Recruiting Leader, you understand the importance of having a reliable and secure talent pipeline in your hiring operations. Your candidates are your most valuable asset, and their data must be safeguarded from end to end. That’s why we’re excited to introduce our new guide and checklist bundle, “Safeguard Your Talent Pipeline: The Data… Read more »
Everyone wants more free candidate traffic—it’s like the holy grail of an inbound recruiting strategy. To help you implement, operationalize and measure your organic success, here are our latest DOs and DON’Ts.In our last post, we explained how adopting an organic-first strategy can take your easy-to-fill jobs off the table with zero media investment.That leaves your… Read more »
Hiring organizations want to adopt an organic-first strategy, but they’ve been gaslit into believing it’s just not possible. Let’s set the record straight.At JobSync, we make a simple claim: your inbound recruiting strategy starts with an organic-first candidate acquisition strategy.The main objection we get is typically, “but organic candidate traffic is dead.” Guess what? You’ve been… Read more »
Before the pandemic the workplace for women was still a challenge. Women making less than men, harassment in the workplace and the ever present glass ceiling. Now throw in a global pandemic, economic downturn and guess what? The glass ceiling is even thicker and women are being forced to leave the workplace in droves. According… Read more »