How many applicants fake test results and assessments?Does cheating work? Is it worthwhile?What can you, the employer, do about it? [full article »]

Imagine you are on stage and in front of the cameras at the famous game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The last question comes, and you know if you get it right you’ll leave the studio with a million dollars in your pocket. Yet, you have no idea what the answer is. You... [full article »]

In part one of this article we learned that selecting the right people for the right job is the most important talent-management decision you have to make. We also asked why the internal-hire rate leads to successful placement about 90% of the time, while external hires barely reach the 50% success rate. It was concluded that... [full article »]

Strategic talent management is about making one decision and making it right. Today I am going to show you how this key decision can be improved by incorporating a new way of thinking and some new techniques into the decision-making process. Having the right people in the right job can make or break your organization. While... [full article »]

An excellent recruiter knows candidates’ expectations. They know what they like and what they dislike. Do you know what the main complaint of your candidates is? [full article »]

People who didn’t believe in the Internet as a sourcing medium 10 years ago started to look pretty foolish about five years ago. Likewise, some companies are still perplexed about accepting all of their new talent applications in a digital format, and, sure enough, research is starting to indicate that they too may look foolish... [full article »]

For years now, we have been looking at the economics of talent management and specifically written on the importance of quality in the talent acquisition process. We have looked at the return on staffing, and our quality of hire report has been well read. But often people come back to us and ask us how... [full article »]

After completing nearly 100 return on investment (ROI) studies on retooling and new process implementations in the staffing departments of the largest companies in the world, we have come to a simple conclusion: the big easy impact from investments and change is often not where our customers ask us to look. At iLogos, we refer... [full article »]

Process improvement philosophies define quality as that which meets the customer’s requirements. Six Sigma, for instance, uses a concept of reducing defects as a way to detail the customer requirements. To measure the quality of a process is to measure the output of the process for conformity to the customer’s requirements. In the case of... [full article »]

Staffing professionals are faced with risk daily. Risk comes from a variety of sources, and can be a strong motivator. What are some of the specific risks facing a staffing professional, and what steps can be taken to mitigate those risks? EEOC Risk The most directly identifiable risk is from potential legal liability. Illegal... [full article »]

Workforce planning is a popular topic of discussion, especially when an improving economy drives changes in corporate staffing needs. Although workforce planning is simple in concept, rapidly changing market conditions and the complexities inherent in large and global organizations may make it unrealistic to accomplish. In workforce planning, an organization conducts a systematic assessment... [full article »]

The centralization of a staffing model is defined as the extent to which management has direct control over the staffing function. In a highly centralized staffing function, management may exercise control over strategy, resources, budget, and process. In a decentralized staffing function, responsibility for the recruiting process is managed locally, with strategies and processes that... [full article »]

There has been a steady decline in average cost per hire in corporate North America over the past several years. In this article, I’ll discuss some factors that contribute to the trend. I’ll also answer this important question: Does a decline in the average cost per hire mean that staffing is getting more efficient? Cost... [full article »]

As a speaker and attendee at the recent SHRM conference in Orlando, I detected three current major areas of interest in the field of staffing management. One area of focus among staffing professionals is background checking, a staffing process step that has taken on even greater significance in light of recent security and economic developments.... [full article »]

Staffing systems have the potential to become the first in the family of HR systems to become truly global. I define a global system to be one that is based on a database having one single “instance.” This definition does not rule out distributed databases, but is intended to exclude regional standalone systems. Global Staffing... [full article »]

An annual survey by iLogos Research, now in its sixth year, reveals that in 2003, 94% of the Global 500 maintains a corporate careers website. The near total adoption of corporate website recruiting by the Global 500 group of companies indicates that the Internet is the global medium companies are using to communicate with candidates.... [full article »]

Recently, I heard the story of a woman who was rejected for an auditor’s job in the office of the comptroller at a company. Later, a financial analyst position opened up in the company. Thanks to an automatic matching function within the company’s applicant tracking system, this woman’s profile popped up against the requisition and... [full article »]

A few months ago, I had a conversation with a VP of HR at a high-tech firm, who recounted a discussion he had had with his CFO: CFO: By the way, what is the value of having 350,000 candidates in our database? VP of HR: Those candidates represent a lot of value for us, and... [full article »]

At iLogos we have been working with many large companies on metrics recently. Demanding economic conditions and increasing concern about the alignment of staffing with corporate goals are prompting companies to measure staffing departments’ activities more systematically. As many staffing departments consider cutbacks, a frequent question is, “How can I determine if my recruiting department... [full article »]

Fiscally responsible CEOs insist that every business decision their companies take must create value. Investing resources in areas of an organization such as infrastructure, research and development, or marketing can be linked to increases in financial performance, and thus shareholder value, in measurable ways. HR has often been considered not to create value, primarily because... [full article »]