HR - Tracks

Globally, one in three employers struggle to find employees with the skills and experience necessary to meet their needs, and almost one-third cite a lack of experience as a key barrier to filling their open jobs.

"2 out of 3 ain't bad!"  Clear titles can too often be boring titles.  "HR Manager" may be clear but it's identifical to 100 other listings.  Creative titles aren't "jargon" -- if they're done well, they can be a very strong part of a good recruiting strategy.

For talent managers, creating learning and change is as much about changing habits as it is about imparting skills. Like retailers trying to lure customers with low prices, traditional efforts to create organizational learning may be thwarted if employees are not aware of the habits they must first unlearn.

Talent Management magazine, The Business of Talent Management...

By Craig Annunziata and Craig Miller To: HR Manager Subject line: Are you kidding me? Body of email: Can you believe the nerve of this employee? He just had 12 weeks off and now he wants another six?

By Eric B. Meyer To improve the reinstatement rights of returning war veterans, and to add more enforcement teeth to the Uniform Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), Pennsylvania Sen.

Job postings have been around since the early ages. If an employer needed to hire, they simply wrote out what they were looking for and put it someplace for all to see.

Why mere potential can be more impressive than actual achievement.

There's a scary truth to this research -- at the same time evidence that all "hiring" must be more professional - performance-based.

You’ve written a compelling job ad that hits all the hot points. You’ve distributed it widely. You’ve even managed to get it high up on search results pages. Despite all that, the number of applications is disappointing.

Each year, organizations in the United States spend roughly $135 billion on employee training. Companies know that they need to encourage the continued learning and development of their workforce in order to stay on top in their field. Because a trained workforce can provide a competitive advantage to companies, it makes sense to implement the best training program possible

The latest on the jobs market, in the U.S. and around the world.

So, when Korean automaker Hyundai announced it was opening a third shift at its plant in Montgomery, Alabama, and was planning to add 877 jobs, the response was unbelievable. By the June 2 deadline, close to 22,000 applicants had filed online for these sought-after production line assembly jobs that paid $16.25 an hour to begin. The applicants to jobs ratio of 25:1 is daunting and clearly shows the continued jobs market issues in the country.

What if you made your employees eligible to become free agents every three years? That is the intriguing question that HR executive and blogger Andy Porter poses in a recent post over at Fistful of Talent.

Vince Lombardi is widely considered the best football coach of all time, and ultimately may be the greatest coach in the history of all sports.

Three years after the recession’s "official" end in June 2009, about 12 million people remain unemployed, with more than three jobless people for every opening, the U.S. Labor Department reports....

One of my favorite bloggers is none other than Mark Cuban – yeah, the owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks.

According to a recent American Bar Foundation study, no one (other than perhaps lawyers) believes that employment lawsuits are a good thing. The sociologists behind the study examined 1,788 cases and conducted 100 interviews.