Talent and Career Transition Management

Ever feel like your hard work has gone unnoticed? You’re not alone. Almost half of the full-time employees who responded to an Office Team survey said they would be “somewhat or very likely” to leave their current job if their manager didn’t recognize a job well done.

With growth a top priority for many CEOs last year, businesses began cautiously investing and hiring new employees. Unemployment rates continued to slowly decline and optimism began to increase as workers felt more confident about their job prospects and sought out – and acquired – new opportunities. However, the path toward economic recovery will likely not be straight and narrow in 2012, as workers and employers are still facing a variety of challenges.

 
As a long-time manager, I’ve written a lot about how firing an employee is one of the toughest and most difficult things a manager ever has to do.
But if you are going to be a manager, it’s also one of those unpleasant duties that, as they say, comes with the territory.
I once worked for a guy (lets call him BB for the Big Boss) who had more than 300 people under his supervision, and he bragged incessantly about how he had never had to fire anyone. It was a nice story, but totally untrue because BB simply got around the problem by delegating that duty to another manager — even when it came down to firing someone who directly reported to him.

Amid a shaky job market and predictions of massive turnover once the economy rebounds, a new study confirms that companies with integrated talent management processes

There has been a significant change between what career development means in the 21st century and what it meant when our parents' generation, or even when my fellow Boomers, entered the workforce

In the beginning, there was the manager, the person who got things done. Then came the leader, the person who “inspired” the manager and “motivated” the workforce.

Talent management has become a top priority for organizations, highlighting that the optimization of talent in the workforce directly affects everyday operations and in turn drives the bottom line.

Though much has been written on the topic of career development, the human resource development field has paid little attention to the ways in which career development programs are evaluated.

This paper seeks to investigate barriers faced by women in acquiring higher positions in a Malaysian multinational oil company. Shows family structure and women's commitment to the family are the most significant barriers perceived by the executive women.

According to a new Ipsos Reid survey conducted on behalf of the Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling (CERIC), if Canadians were to start again to plan their career or work-life, two-thirds (65%) would try to get more career planning or job information than they did initially. "The survey also found that one in ten (8%) Canadians have required assistance in making career plans or in selecting, changing, or getting a job, over the past year," said Robert Shea, CERIC´s president, and director of Memorial University´s Career and Experiential Learning department, St. John´s, Newfoundland.

Are you unhappy in your current job and ready to search for something better? If so, you are not alone. Recent surveys show that more than one-half of U.S. workers today are unhappy with their jobs and with each successive survey, the situation is getting worse. Unfortunately, this means that the odds are not in your favor of finding a job that you will enjoy. There are ways, however, to minimize the risk of accepting a job that you will later regret. By asking the right questions during the interview and listening very closely to the answers, you can assess fairly accurately whether you are dealing with an organization where you will want to work.

When you are in Human Resources, everyone thinks you know everything there is to know about getting hired. Truth is, most HR folks stumble when implementing their own self-marketing efforts. Having coached numerous HR professionals, I have often been told that many are introverted and find resume writing difficult and networking intimidating. So, if you think you are alone in finding job hunting a challenging task, think again.