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SHORTAGE OF MANAGEMENT TALENT

Friday, July 20th, 2007

I was laughing.
Okay, maybe not laughing, but definitely chuckling when I read recently that Bersin & Associates, a talent management consultancy firm, conducted a survey of 750 business and 55 senior HR executives and found that “more than half admitted to a critical shortage of line managers as well as difficulty in identifying, hiring and […]

IN THE TALENT WARS, FLEXIBILITY IS KEY

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Feel like you’re at war for the top guns of the talent pool? Well, you’re not alone.
A recent Manpower survey of nearly 37,000 employers worldwide found that 41 percent felt there was a real lack of available talent.
And they’re not the only ones saying it.
A survey by Development Dimensions International, an HR consultancy firm, and Monster […]

Resumes: How Many Resumes do I Need to Hire the Right Person

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

Having enough resumes in your candidate pool may be the single most overlooked step in the process to hire the right person. Most of the 100’s of HR Managers that I’ve talked to in the past year say there just aren’t enough hours in the day to get all their work done. Accordingly, they will […]