Tag: best practices

The most recent issue of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce e-newsletter includes an interview with Gayle Norton in which she makes a very strong case for why Talent Acquisition needs to encompass so much more than what organizations have typically labeled “recruitment”.  Her recommendations are especially pertinent for any organization that needs to get ahead of competitors […]

TalentRISE recently spoke with CHRO Roberta McQuade, formerly of Signode Industrial Group and ITW. Many of our readers may know Roberta as she is one of the most well-connected senior Human Resources executives in the Chicagoland area. Her experience encompasses public, privately-held, private equity and foreign-owned businesses in manufacturing, food/consumer, aerospace, and oil/chemical industries. In […]

TalentRISE recently successfully completed a consulting project to help a client develop a roadmap for a global Talent Acquisition Strategy. Our Client’s Profile A multi-billion manufacturer of an iconic American brand Operates globally but lacked a standardized enterprise-wide talent acquisition process and global technology platform that would enable the organization to deal with labor shortages […]

Are Talent Acquisition Departments wishing for something they already have? That’s certainly something that an article, recently published on the ERE.net website, speculates. Using data drawn from our recent survey, our article analyzes the answers when we asked survey respondents one particularly revealing question: “If you had unlimited resources and dollars to invest, what would you invest […]

Last week, I presented a webinar on “Building A Social Network Strategy To Engage Passive Candidates” at a virtual conference hosted by HR.com. Topics covered included success factors – as well as lessons learned – drawn from TalentRISE’s experiences working with organizations of all sizes in multiple industries to implement social networking strategies that really work. […]

A new survey by TalentRISE and The Center for Research and Service at Illinois Institute of Technology finds that companies are responding to a shrinking supply of labor by investing in more dedicated recruitment resources, better technologies and tools and providing job candidates with an enhanced experience. View the Executive Summary here. Executive Summary TalentRISE 2014 […]

Onboarding not Working? Learn from your Offboarding Practices. A feature article in this month’s Workforce Solutions Review (a publication of IHRIM, the International Human Resource Information Management association) by Gayle Norton discusses how lessons learned from exit interviews can inform and improve onboarding programs. Interested in learning more about how to promote employee engagement, retention and productivity? […]

The International Association of Coaching (IAC) just published my article titled, “How Coaches and Recruiters Can, Together, Protect Our Clients’ Investment – A Headhunter’s Perspective on the Value Coaches Provide”. In the piece, I discuss the expensive challenge of keeping newly hired executives…and what to do about it.  One very viable approach is coaching during the onboarding […]

A recent article in the International Association of Coaches newsletter, The Voice, by J. James O’Malley offers our perspective on “How Coaches and Recruiters Can, Together, Protect Our Clients’ Investment”.  Please link here for the entire article.

Good conferences always offer great opportunities to stay on top of challenges, best practices, and future trends. The best conferences also offer new take-away ideas to implement within our own organizations. The recent ERE conference held in Chicago in late September delivered the goods on both fronts. As the moderators of an almost-two-hour-long Think Tank session […]