Editor's Note

The role of human resources is increasingly important to an organization’s success beyond traditional functions—and recent studies show that HR managers believe they could contribute even more if they could free themselves of manual tasks, including those surrounding records management, employee onboarding, payroll, benefits administration and more.

Enhancing HR With Technology Solutions: How do HR managers select the right solution?

The role of human resources is increasingly important to an organization’s success beyondtraditional functions—and recent studies show that HR managers believe they could contribute even more if they could free themselves of manual tasks, including those surrounding records management, employee onboarding, payroll, benefits administration and more.

HR Strategy and Planning Essentials Advertisers: November 2016

Trends In HR & Talent: How to adapt & change

I believe there are exciting new ways to capture talent. Today, effective HR is disruptive and imaginative. It’s constantly reinventing itself. It has to in order to stay relevant in a constantly changing business environment.

6 Online Forms For HR Professionals: Help your company streamline its workflow

As the organizational driving force behind a company, human resource professionals need to be fluent in online forms. They should become familiar with online form building software and know how to whip up an online form on the fly and keep track of data.

Choosing The Right HR Analytics Technology: 4 best practices

When setting up a workforce analytics function, it’s clear that the people you include are vital to long-term success. However, the technologies you choose to enable your team are just as critical.

HR Doesn’t Manage Projects: Projects manage HR

With over 5,000 views of the article, “The First Three Skills HR Needs to Learn from Outside HR,” I have received many emails on the topic of project management. This skill is severely lacking in HR with the most popular comment to me being “Tracey, our HR projects are always late.” That’s because HR isn’t managing the project; the project is managing HR.

Talent OS: Why we built it

When businesses actively engage their employees, they create an environment for A Players who bring a whole world of benefits to the organization. Organizations with high engagement have…

Contingent Workforce Management Technology: The consumerisation of vendor management systems

There is a dramatic change happening in enterprise software design. The chasm between the consumer and enterprise experience is quickly closing. End users, whether they are at home or at work, want solutions that are intuitive, easy-to-use, and deliver functionality that meets their transactional or business requirements. In parallel, savvy developers recognize that improved usability multiplies the business value of the solution. The goal is to create an environment of efficiency.

Pre-hire Talent Assessments: It must be part of your predictive talent acquisition strategy

Over the past 30+ years, businesses have spent billions on talent assessments. Many of these are now being used to understand job candidates.  Increasingly, businesses are asking how (or if) a predictive talent acquisition strategy can include the use of pre-hire assessments?  As costs of failed new hires continue to rise, recruiters and hiring managers are looking for any kind of pre-hire information to increase the probability of making a great hire.