Every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces on retaining instead of recruiting, the increasing use of referrals in hiring, the future of workplace training, world-class HR, and the state of talent management.
From Carina Wytiaz: Want to Hire Great Employees? Why Not Focus on Keeping Them Instead?
“For so many of us, our daydreams about the perfect employee end with the phrase, “You’re hired.†Maybe it’s time to start thinking about how to keep great employees, instead of just how to find great employees”
From the NY Times: In Hiring, a Friend in Need Is a Prospect, Indeed
“As employers increasingly use internal referrals to find new hires, the odds narrow for unconnected job seekers, especially among the long-term unemployed.”
From Stephen J. Gill:Â The Future of Workplace Training
“For too long, HR, training departments, and even Learning and Development units, have focused on events. And they have become quite good at doing events. But the future of training is not events, nor is it only capability. It is learning that contributes in a measurable way to the success of the organization.”
From Andrew McIlvaine: Latest Hackett Study on “World-Class HR”
“Is your HR department world-class? Would you like it to be? It wouldn’t hurt to check out the latest Book of Numbers research from the Hackett Group, which has been putting out these reports for the past 17 years. Hackett defines “world class†as “companies that achieve top-quartile performance across a weighted array of efficiency and effectiveness metrics.†The findings are based on detailed benchmarks of Global 1000 companies over the past two years.”
From John Hollon: A Good Look at the State of Talent Management in 2013
“the State of Management 2013 report this week from SilkRoad, a “leading provider of cloud-based social talent management solutions,†got my full attention.”
