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According to a recent Aberdeen report, 94 percent of company leaders say that effective hiring is key to helping them achieve their business objectives.
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Your workforce is changing. But most businesses still don't understand how to motivate, satisfy and retain this increasingly global, diverse and, yes, demanding employee base.
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Is corporate America more concerned with attracting top employees than developing the ones they have? That's the contention of John Hagel III, a director at Deloitte Consulting and co-chair of the Silicon Valley-based Deloitte Center for the Edge, which tries to help senior executives make sense of emerging opportunities in
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Enterprise cloud application builder Workday announced third-quarter financial predictions late last night that wildly surpassed Wall Street estimates. Both Oracle and SAP must be watching this company's growth with alarm, particularly because the company just announced Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has joined its board.
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In a competitive, global market, finding the right talent isn't always easy. Even when you hire qualified workers, you may not be able to retain them. It's hard to escape the onslaught of media coverage lamenting the lack of skilled employees in today's workforce.
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Oracle’s cloud business was always going to be one of the key points of interest at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld. Sure enough, there has been a lot of talk around the cloud and cloud products.
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Social tools and cloud computing are emerging as key strengths for talent management, while learning compliance is an Achilles heel for many organizations. Those are some of the key takeaways from a new report. Entitled "The State of Talent Management 2013", the report by SilkRoad is based
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Companies use business intelligence to analyze key data on their hard assets, but why don't they do a better job of looking at the data they have on the people that work for them? Oracle surveyed 400 companies in UK, France, Germany and Australia to find out.
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There was a fairly controversial post the other day written by Inge Geerdens posted on the LinkedIn "thought leader" blogs that spoke about how she is reluctant to hire forty-something professionals. She gave a bunch of specious reasons and then caved underneath the avalanche of negative responses by authoring a new post , which
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Oracle is entering an agreement to acquire SelectMinds, a provider of cloud-based social talent sourcing and corporate alumni management applications. The Elusive Search for Talent Finding and retaining talent is always a top challenge for any business in any industry. According to Oracle, the SelectMinds acquisition is designed to
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IBM is acquiring Kenexa, a publicly-held recruiting/talent management solution provider, in an effort to bolster its social and HR business initiatives. Kenexa offers cloud-based front office applications and consulting services. Making Recruitment Social In its announcement of the acquisition, IBM says Kenexa, “complements IBM's strategy of bringing relevant data and
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Everyone has a theory about how to recruit the best and the brightest to their company. But how can you be sure which one works best or has staying power? Well, it often depends on the size and type of company that a certain method is employed.
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