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GROW YOUR OWN
A Workforce Shock to the System
By Bridget Mintz Testa
Facing a critical skills shortage, one Midwest regional transmission organization decided to grow its own staff after discovering it was competing for the same dwindling pool of mostly aging candidates.
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RECRUITING REMAINS STRONG
Online Headhunters Prosper Despite Weak Economy
July 8, 2008 2:05 PM PT
Urgent Career recently unveiled a new service that helps companies hire good salespeople. BountyJobs, which operates a Web site that connects headhunters to employers, has raised $12 million in venture funding.
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PART OF THE TEAM
Goodyear Names New HR Executive
July 8, 2008 2:15 PM PT
Joe Ruocco is a 23-year veteran of GE and has served as vice president of human resources for GE Consumer & Industrial.
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Global Work Watch
Staff writer Ed Frauenheim blogs about how companies worldwide marshal and manage their workers.
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White Paper: Best Practices in Recruitment
In a down economy, you need all the help you can get when recruiting talent—discover how four leading recruitment companies can help you by downloading our Best Practices in Recruitment white paper.
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Tools and Resources
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The top ten questions to ask.
Competency models are descriptions of strong individual performance, and are the yardstick against which all performance is evaluated. A Penn State professor says that these models work.
A small, medium and a large company talk about how HR and recruiters are working well together.
Can you ask if an employee has been arrested? If they have a high school diploma? What organizations they belong to?
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| Dear Workforce |
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A question-and-answer newsletter addressing some of the most common and most
obscure HR. Ask a
question about whatever's important to you—whether it's HR, recruiting,
benefits, compensation, or training |
Your would-be mentors should have a desire to coach. Make sure to clearly explain your expectations, and provide whatever training tools may be needed to enable their success.
Achieving ROI requires you to manage the program for planned results, not for administration.
Top Tips
for Driving RPO Success
The world of RPO providers is growing rapidly--in both number and diversity. And
with so many in the game, aligning with the right partner has never been more
critical to success. Consider these strategies for choosing the ideal RPO
provider, evaluating your current packaged and maximizing your financial
investment.
Employee Screening: Common Challenges, Smart
Solutions
A robust employee screening program can help companies avoid risk, reduce costs
and hire the right person. But the screening process can also be complicated, and
present various challenges to companies. By understanding the challenges and how
to address them, you can design a strategy that helps you quickly and efficiently
hire the right talent.
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Special Reports
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Despite the intense scrutiny around executive pay, few HR leaders are stepping up to get involved in compensation issues.
Employers' efforts to market themselves as desirable plaes to work will go for naught if they do not first understand their own cultural strengths and weaknesses and what they can offer top-flight job candidates that their rivals cannot.
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Recruiting and Staffing
Aggressive Approaches With Passive Recruits
A manager's success depends on he quality of the people he or she
hires. While the traditional hiring process usually works smoothly,
managers are right to wonder if the most talented professionals
are not sitting at home reading ad jobs, but currently out in the
workforce.
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