Editor’s Note

In today’s robust economy, levels of employment are at their highest in recent years, making it increasingly difficult for companies to meet their staffing needs.

Companies are spending a lot of time, energy and money seeking to acquire the talent needed to carry out their organizations’ goals, while simultaneously losing substantial numbers of people as job hopping is omnipresent. Successful firms look far beyond pay as an effective countermeasure to retain employees in this new economy.

 

The cover article of this month, Gary Felsten and Arnold Perl's How To Hire And Keep The Best Talent?, talks about why building a more positive, trust-based culture by focusing on values and improving the interpersonal skills of managers results in more positive relationships among people and considerably less turnover.

So many pieces of the hiring process have evolved to keep pace with increased modernization in the workplace. Online job boards, social recruiting, and employer branding are all advents of technological progress. However, relics of a time before these technological advances still plague the hiring process, making it more cumbersome and tedious than it needs to be. The resume, what used to be perceived as the Holy Grail of recruiting, has been stuck in time.

Check out Jon Bischke's article Death Of The Resume to learn how not to fall victim to the talent wars.

Also included in this edition is a Featured Research supplement, on How Organizations Identify and Hire Great Talent, featuring exclusive research highlights from HR.com and IBM Smarter Workforce Institute study. Read the exclusive research to gather insights on issues such as quality and cost of hire, to identify challenges that arise from regrettable hires and to learn how aggressively employers are moving to adopt new talent acquisition technologies.

Also check out Can CV Survive Against The Sanctity Of Blind Recruiting? by Charles Hipps, Top Barriers To Finding And Keeping Quality Employees by Frank Fiorille and New Hire Orientation Versus Onboarding by Gia Suggs, among other articles featured this month.

We hope this edition of Talent Acquisition Excellence will give you practical suggestions, as always, for improving company practices around interviewing, sourcing, on-boarding etc. and help you find best candidates.

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