Recruiting web videos–Poll results

Click on the link to see the poll results.
http://polls.linkedin.com/poll-results/59062/zewan

Do you have plans next year to use web video as part of your recruiting process?

Utilizing web video in your social media recruitment strategies

2000 Retail Holiday Survey

last call for 2009 Retail Hiring Survey http://tinyurl.com/lr53nx #fb

RPO Top 10 Potential Risks

As you first start with the exploratory internal discussions of RPO and will it solve our problems, below is a framework to consider about the inherent risks involved with RPO. As an advisor, I like to start with a couple of very basic questions:

1) Is there enough pain or is it worth the risk?

2) If it’s really worth it, how to best mitigate risk to insure a successful RPO implementation and most important the steady state.

Aon Consulting to Speak at Upcoming ERE Expo in San Diego

John Hassett and Miriam Nelson from Aon Consulting are hosting a pre-conference workshop on Monday, March 30 at 2pm during the upcoming spring ERE Expo.  We will be discussing best practices for high volume recruitment, retention and enhancing the candidate/employee experience.  This is a highly interactive workshop and participants will walk away with a journal [...]

Buyer Beware- How to Protect Yourself from an RPO Ponzi Scheme

The more I read about the Bernard Madoff scandal the sicker I get about it.  We should all try and learn a lesson from this if we can, even in our industry.  At the end of the day, things that seem too good to be true usually are.
There are certain attributes that happened in the [...]

Executive Coaching

A recent blog focused on the benefits provided by realistic job previews in finding new hires who are both a good match (and therefore likelier to stay on the job) and are prepared to be individual contributors as quickly as possible. The same idea applies recently at an executive level. The result is “executive onboarding.” [...]

Building Talent Pipelines

Even with the looming recession and huge uncertainty, various industry research and real life client work are pointing to a common conclusion that the war for talent is indeed here and is becoming global in nature.  The knowledge economy is creating specialized needs for talent in strategic, new areas across functional lines as well as [...]

Aon Consulting Names Bob Lopes as Human Capital Practice Co-Leader

Lopes to lead RPO/EPO and Benefacts businesses
CHICAGO, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Aon Consulting, the global human capital consulting organization of Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC), announced today that Bob Lopes has joined the firm as co-leader of the Human Capital practice.
Lopes will be responsible for the Recruitment Process Outsourcing/Employment Process Outsourcing (RPO/EPO) practice, which helps clients [...]

Passive candidates…Is there ROI?

One of the more frustrating and heated debates right now in corporate recruiting is that a passive candidate is better quality that a active one.  Especially now, in this market, isn’t everyone an active one?  And, what about companies lovefest with the passive candidate and how they desperately need to get these gems into the [...]

Aon Consulting Partners with Taleo to Provide Best-of-Class Talent Management Implementation Services to Global Enterprise Organizations

New partnership offers comprehensive human capital solutions including project management, best practices, hiring process design, and change management
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CHICAGO, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Aon Consulting, the global human capital consulting organization of Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC), today announced that under terms of an extended partnership agreement, Taleo will introduce Aon Consulting’s implementation, delivery and consulting services [...]

Using Total Rewards Statements to Attract and Retain Top Talent

Over the past few months, Aon’s Benefacts Practice have been surveying our client’s employees about the information they receive in their Total Compensation/Total Rewards Statements. The purpose of the survey was to gauge our success in providing communication value and meeting clients’ objectives through our “Rewards on Board” product. The employees’ answers help build the [...]

What Keeps you up at Night? Clutch Performance

How many times has a consultant asked you, “What keeps you up at night?”  It’s a well-intentioned question aimed at getting to heart of whatever issues plague your organization, but it may have outlived its usefulness.  In any case, I know how I would respond if someone had asked me that question today: “Clutch.”
Clutch means [...]

Employment Branding Matters Even More

Last time, I talked about the importance of branding. And while it’s certainly true that branding matters (anyone NOT know the “brands”at right???), I think there’s a strong case to be made that employment branding matters even more. Because at the end of the day, your company isn’t run by products and services, it’s run [...]

Skilled Trades Shortage in Manufacturing Sector

Believe it or not manufacturing is a hot sector for employment especially in the U.S.  Listen to the media and you would think this is the big loser.  No wonder the Millennials have no interest and manufacturing continues to see their talent pool evaporate.
At a time when employment trends can seem somewhat confusing, one thing is [...]

Why Do Organizations Use Recruitment Process Outsourcing?

In an industry that is becoming increasing commoditized, it is refreshing to know that not all buyers are choosing their Recruitment Outsourcing partners primarily on price. In a recent Benefit and Talent Survey taken by Aon Consulting in January 2008, over a thousand respondents comprised of HR Leaders from organizations of all sizes located throughout [...]

Branding…it matters.

For loyal readers (I’m guessing we’re about to break into double digits at this early stage!) who’ve been waiting patiently for the next installment of “RPO Myths”, or any installment for that matter, and whose keen eyes have noticed that there is a significant difference in our look and feel (again), you are witnessing the [...]

Great Article on Employee Referral Programs

John Hassett, Recruitment Process Outsourcing, was quoted in last week’s issue of Workforce Management on referral programs. John provided insight on different approached employers are using. See link and full text article below with John’s insight highlighted.
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Despite Success, There Are Reasons to Be Wary of Referral Programs
Employers unfamiliar with referral programs can inadvertently create an [...]

Myths, myths, and more myths (continued) #7

#7) RPO Doesn’t Work (or so I’ve heard…)

One of the reasons (among several) that I could never be a journalist is that, at heart, I’m a completely optimistic human being. People are generally good, I live in a great country, our economic system is the best in the world, and overall, life moves along in [...]

The most important retention metric of all

Have you ever been on a boat with a hole in it? Unfortunately I have. What would you do? As a kid, I would try to get a bucket and feverishly bail the water out as fast as I could. Usually it left me exhausted, frustrated, and at the end of the day, [...]

Myths, myths, and more myths (continued) #8

Myth #8: RPO Costs Too Much
As we continue down the list of what I’m calling “myths“, or rather misperceptions, surrounding the use of recruitment process outsourcing to augment or replace an organization’s recruitment/staffing function or processes, somewhere on the ranking order we’d have to come to cost. The notion that RPO, by providing so many [...]

What metrics does your recruitment department track?

I recently sat in on a great presentation about six sigma processes and how it applies to call centers. I’m not technically on the operations side of call centers, but I have done a fair amount of work with them over the years, and still consult with many of them on the recruitment side of [...]

Myths, myths, and more myths (continued) #9

#9) You’ll lose control
This should probably be ranked number #1 or #2, but since we’re not going in any particular order here on the myths that surround recruitment process outsourcing, let’s get this one taken care of right from the start.
Part of the advantage of using RPO to drive your talent acquisition processes is the [...]

Myths, myths, and more myths

Ten to be exact.
One of the most surprising things that I encountered when I entered the brave new world of recruitment process outsourcing was the pervasive antipathy of recruiters to the services of our industry. Now notwithstanding the outsourcing/right-sourcing argument we talked about earlier, when I, or any RPO vendor for that matter, show up [...]

Recruiting in the year 2337

After my rather long missive about why you can’t sleep, part of which I contributed to, since at least 5 minutes of your life was expended READING that, and why Web 2.0 Recruiting might just be a “tad” over-hyped, I couldn’t resist including one of the funniest recruiting videos I’ve seen. Sometimes we just gotta [...]