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Labour Retention: How you can create ‘Sticky’ Talent

Confessions of a Consultant

The book attempted to distil the methods deployed by the best-managed companies to create what’s sometimes referred to as sticky talent. Talent Wars : As the ‘war for talent’ increases, there’s emerging evidence of systematic poaching, in some cases encouraged by headhunters who make a living from ‘executive churn’.Don’t

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business

If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are.

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EX = CX: How to create a thriving gigCX model

1 to 1

As an on-demand model, it offers greater staffing flexibility; during periods of high-demand, companies can activate a talent pool of gig workers and scale back when the volume decreases. But just because a job may be short-lived on a task-by-task basis, there is still much that companies can do to motivate talented gig workers.

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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In 1932, Dr. Gallup joined the New York advertising firm Young & Rubicam as the head of both the research and copy departments. He developed research methods and programs for the television and movie industry to help clients determine advertising effectiveness and how to identify what the market wanted to watch in film and television.

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Convincing CEOs to Make Harassment Prevention a Priority

Harvard Business

Harassment reduces the productivity of both harassed employees and the unit in which the harassment occurs. Because almost 70% of harassment incidents are never reported to the employer, talented and highly-skilled employees may leave without employers knowing that their business has suffered as a result of workplace harassment.

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Research: When the Economy Is Good, Employers Demand Fewer Credentials

Harvard Business

” Recruitment intensity is a shorthand term to describe everything employers can do to affect the likelihood of filling a job vacancy, such as changes in advertising expenditures, screening methods, hiring standards, and compensation. As a result, education and training programs need to be designed with this cyclicality in mind.

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Why (and How) HR Needs to Act More Like Marketing

Harvard Business

This is particularly true for the marketing department, which is changing at such a break-neck pace that marketing success now depends heavily on support from HR to identify and train new skillsets. The competition for the best talent is fast and furious and, in many cases, that battleground is the social web.