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Week of July 31, 2006

This week's topics:

Recruitment
Retention Strategy

Next week's topic:

Workplace Flexibility

Mark McAuliffe
HR.Com's senior analyst and Community Leader for Workforce Acquisition.
mmcauliffe@hr.com

Featured Workforce Acquisition blog:

Trusting Your Intuition? ... A lesson for recruitment professionals

In today's issue (7/31/06) of Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge, professors Max H. Bazerman and Deepak Malhotra provide readers with a few strategies that in their words "guard against falling back on intuition during times of stress and indecision in negotiation." While the strategies suggested are primarily directed at individuals engaged in negotiation, the parallel to recruitment is compelling. Finding the candidate that best fits a position is indeed a negotiation.

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Why Employees Stay: Top Companies Share Their Secrets
When high-performing employees leave an organization, leaders tend to ask, "Why are you leaving?" writes Scott Cawood. What they don't do enough of is ask those who stay, "Why are you staying?"

TruStar Executive Interview: Recruitment Strategy
Mark McAuliffe, HR.com's Senior Analyst covering Workforce Acquisition, recently sat down with LeRoy Robbins, the Executive VP of First Advantage (formerly TruStar).

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Many Wars for Talent
Author: David Creelman

David Creelman explores Helen Handfield-Jones' latest work on the war for talent: what it is, the key ideas about it today and the implications for compensation.

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The Value Profit Chain: Treat Employees Like Customers and Customers Like Employees - summary
Author: James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger

In their groundbreaking book, The Service Profit Chain (1997), Heskett, Sasser, and Schlesinger asked the question of why a few service enterprises seem to be consistently better at what they do than their competitors. Their answer, based on years of research, revealed the use of a set of quantifiable relationships. These relationships form the foundation for a powerful strategic service model that stands as an effective framework for erecting more focused operations and marketing capabilities.

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Trends in Recruitment Technology
We'll talk about what we've seen work and fail in recruitment technology, what candidates are saying are the most effective strategies they've seen, what the pundits and vendors are saying about technology and what might be the next best thing.
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August 3, 2006 at 1:00 PM ET

Strategies for Building and Retaining a World-Class Workforce
Hiring managers across the board understand: having the right people, in the right place at the right time is the key to success. But, take a step back, go deeper...what does this really mean? How do you overcome today's recruiting and retention obstacles to develop a truly winning, resilient talent management process?
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August 8, 2006 at 2:00 PM ET

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