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 hiring better, your employment brand, finding the talent you need, and the elusive talent equation.
From Katherine Jones at Bersin: Getting to the Better Mousetrap in Employee Hiring
“When was the last time you looked carefully at your hiring management processes? Have they changed to accommodate the highly social, electronic world your candidates live in today? Many companies we talk to basically follow the same procedures since – well, perhaps since the industrial revolution – and often fail to recognize where processes can be streamlined, candidate screening expedited, and costs lessened.”
Wally’s Comment: With five questions and some analysis, Dr. Katherine Jones walks you through what better hiring might look like.
From Josh Bersin: The Immense Power of Your Employment Brand
“Our research shows that talent acquisition, the entire end-to-end process of attracting, sourcing, recruiting, and onboarding people, is one of the most important, complex, and often dysfunctional parts of a company.
Wally’s Comment: Your brand should tell the world, and all the possible candidates in it, exactly what you stand for, so they know if you’re the right fit for them.
From Steve Boese: Are you doing enough to find the hard-to-find talent?
“Whichever side you come down on as to the larger causes and drivers in the ‘skills gap’ debate, ultimately, as an HR and Talent professional, the theoretical discussion probably matters less to your success than the actual and practical steps you take when, at a micro-level, you find yourself bucking up against the manifestation of a real or otherwise ‘skills gap’ in your world – that key position that you just can’t fill, or when you stare down a thin or empty pipeline of potential prospects to replace the dozen or so old-timer and highly specialized engineers about to head to retirement in the next few years, perhaps in a discipline that isn’t ‘hot’ for new graduates.”
Wally’s Comment: Is there a “skills gap?” Or is that just an excuse? Steve Boese has some thoughts on the state of things and what’s required.
From David K. Waltz: In Search of the Talent Equation
“In reading “Talent Management Success: How A ‘Best to Work For’ Company Makes and Keeps Its Employees Happy†on Beth Miller’s Executive Velocity blog, I was intrigued by the fact that PBD, the company in question, sought to develop talent across their whole enterprise through a “best fit†process.”
Wally’s Comment: Take some time with this one. David K. Waltz is a financial officer, comfortable with numbers and good at explaining what they say. In this post he analyzes various “equations” that are used to explain what talent is and how it works.
