Explore HCI's collection of curated research, white papers, case studies and infographics on trending talent management topics.
Are You Making Costly Hiring Mistakes?
Employers want to recruit and hire the best talent in their industry. But what if your organization’s internal processes aren’t set up to support efficient and effective hiring? If HR lacks the support they need for screening, hiring, ...
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Developing Effective Frontline Managers
Employees don’t quit companies, they quit managers. Although there’s truth in that statement, pointing a finger of blame is not helpful. Dig a little deeper and you’ll find that there are specific things that managers do — ...
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Employee Engagement: Against All Odds
The best workforce is an engaged workforce — employees who feel emotionally connected to the organization and who are willing to put in discretionary effort voluntarily, as a natural manifestation of their commitment to their jobs. Your ...
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Core Principles to Build a Successful a Talent Community
Last month we announced the launch of our talent community solution. TalentBridge® is TalentWave’s technology-enabled service that enables a client to curate a community of independent workers who are already known to the organization and that ... Read more
First Impressions and Talent Selection… How to Snap Out of Making Snap Decisions
There it is – the face of a potential job candidate. You can’t explain how you know this, but you feel it’s a trusting, dependable face. You instantly feel that he or she is more capable than others you viewed today. Careful! You may not know it, but you’ve just engaged in the pseudoscience of physiognomy, reading (or more appropriately misreading) peoples’ temperament and characters in their faces.
It’s Not a Silver Bullet, It’s Systemic Diagnosis
What do you do when an aspect of your business doesn’t go as planned or in the way you had hoped? As executives, we’ve all experienced this. What does it take to properly diagnose the issue and ultimately develop a solution? Where do you start in ...
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6 Ways to Make Your Constructive Feedback More Welcoming, Productive
Using descriptions and examples, framing the change in terms of what you want in the future, and using the least amount of power can help make your constructive feedback more productive.
SHAPING TECH COMPANY'S TALENT ACQUISITION, BRAND TO ENTER AND EXCEL WITHIN HIGHLY COMPETITIVE, SATURATED GLOBAL MARKETS
WilsonHCG builds recruitment strategy and process, maximises hiring manager satisfaction (90 percent), and transforms Academy Awardwinning, video and computer advertising company’s culture – as defined by more than 80 percent of ...
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Moving Teams Forward with Clarity, Leadership and Empathy
Let’s extend to others on our teams the grace we wish were extended to us, and then dig in and do hard work together. Let’s get clear on the things that aren’t, interact in healthy ways, and influence others for shared success.
Seven Ways to Help Your Candidates Provide Winning Reference Checks
You know references matter. More than 80% of hiring managers require them before making a job offer. And today, hiring managers are more likely to use reference feedback to differentiate between candidates and obtain critical insights rather than ...
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Talent Community Manifesto – or, the “Declaration of Independents”
Several weeks ago TalentWave announced the launch of our talent community solution. This is a technology-enabled service, which we call TalentBridge, which enables a client company to curate a community of independent workers who are already ...
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Inclusive Global Leadership: Technology and Trust
We live in an age of accelerating complexity. Smartphones have attracted new users around the world, with more than six billion people now connected to the internet. Technology promises to make life more convenient yet also demands our attention, intruding on our daily lives and pulling us away from the humans in our midst.
‘Integrated Learning’ Gets Real
It’s no longer enough for workplace learning to exist as an afterthought – a checkbox that keeps dropping to the bottom of a long to-do list. To engage talent and maintain competitiveness, smart employers realize that they need to ...
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The Importance of Building a Change Platform
Today’s marketplace has become an environment of continuous change. As a result, many businesses struggle to adapt as multiple areas of their organizations simultaneously experience change of some sort. In a recent webinar, I discussed how change ... Read more
Think Twice Before Hiring More HR Analysts
Great HR leaders excel at finding untapped potential in their people, increasing their efficiency, and maximising their contribution to the company’s strategic objectives and financial performance. One area where CHROs are focusing on unlocking more value is within their HR analytics function.
The GE Journey – Revolutionizing Employment Brand to Transform Talent Strategy
Candidates and employees are smarter than they’ve ever been while the amount of technology and mediums available today allows them to be more transparent in their experiences and open about their demands. In response, truly innovative ...
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Get Retention Right: Rethink your Focus, Approach
Companies spend massive amounts of time, money and headspace on strategies to increase employee retention, hoping that doing so will indemnify them from the risks of losing valuable employees, or thinking it will solve any labor shortage they face that threatens the health and growth of their business.
Conducting better job interviews
We consider it one of the most important steps in the hiring journey. And yet, the job interview, if poorly conducted, can be less predictive of job success than throwing darts. Ill-conceived questions solicit incomplete or useless information. ...
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2017 Agency Recruiting Benchmark Report
We know finding the right candidate for a critical role is imperative to organizations, giving them a competitive advantage that ultimately results in their overall success.
While we know third-party recruiting plays a critical role in this ...
Lack of Clarity in the Workplace is Costing Your Organization
As with every endeavor, it’s important to know where you’re going. If things are foggy or ambiguous on your way to success, any actions taken will require more time and resources, or may fail altogether. Unfortunately, these failures are happening too often in business. Clarity matters. Each small clarity problem within an organization may seem insignificant at first, but gradually, they lead to big problems.