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Monday, August 23rd, 2010 by Tim Giehll
Preparing for your latest job fair? As you spend a full day frantically packing your signage, gathering your business cards and concepting your booth game, your savviest competitor has already reached out to six candidates – each more qualified than you will meet at your fair.
How did they do it? By realizing long ago that job fairs are a dying recruiting tactic and evolving their strategy.
Below, find five reasons job fairs are overrated:
Thursday, July 15th, 2010 by Tim Giehll
After attending the HR Thought Leadership conference in Atlantic City in June, I came away with a bunch of insights from attendees and other speakers about the Future of Human Capital Supply Chain Software. I heard from a number of corporate HR executives that there is a HUGE market globally for the “replacement” of first generation 1.0 Talent Management systems over the next few years. This is being driven by the explosion of Web 2.0 technologies and the dis-satisfaction that many corporate HR users have with their “over-sold” current 1.0 talent management solutions.
In general, the Top 5 Future Capabilites Include:
Thursday, June 10th, 2010 by Tim Giehll
For awhile now there have been two camps of thought concerning how to best help Corporations improve the management of their contingent workforce spending. At first, there were stand alone VMS (Vendor Management Software/Service) companies that applied technology to this business issue, Over time the large Staffing firms jumped in and through their MSP (Managed Service Provider) offerings and the acquisition of some of the VMS technology companies, they have been able to effectively help their largest corporate clients better manage the flow of contingent spending. Who is right and who is wrong ???
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 by Tim Giehll
Last week, while attending the Consulting Summit in Chicago ,hosted by Brian Cuthbert and Joe Kornik of Consulting Magazine, I had the opportunity to talk with some of the world’s leading HR and Supply Chain consulting firms. I had the chance to speak with Kathryn Hayley (CEO) from Aon, Rajeev Jain of Hewitt, Maryanne Faschan of HP, Carrie Greenbaum of Alix and Susan Kantor of PRTM. After talking about the revolutionary aspects of Human Capital Supply Chains, all my discussions focused on how Consulting firms should begin to engage with their corporate clients about the benefits of implementing a Human Capital Supply Chain environment. The discussions were lively and it reinforced for me the true transformational nature of a new idea such as Human Capital Supply Chains.
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 by Tim Giehll
First of all, I have to give full credit for this post to the Californai Staffing Association. The information written by them below is one of the BEST descriptions of what staffing firms many times deal with when they interact with a corporate VMS. It is important for all parties; 1) the corporate client, 2) the VMS/MSP and 3) the staffing firm to better understand the common frustrations of interfacing with a VMS environment. Happy Reading !!!
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Monday, April 19th, 2010 by Tim Giehll
In a recent report by research firm Staffing Industry Analysts, it was found that the percentage of companies using Vendor Management Systems ( VMS ) jumped from 34 percent in 2007 to 63 percent in 2009. Staffing Industry Analysts also predicted the rate would climb to 81 percent in 2011.
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 by Tim Giehll
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard the loud buzz about Cloud Computing. Plugging into the Cloud promises to eliminate the need for lots of on-site hardware, installed software, and disruptive and expensive upgrades for Human Resource departments and Staffing firms. Just think, no more hardware to buy/replace, no more servers to maintain, no more IT staff to pay and no more backups to worry about. HR departments and staffing firms “do not want to manage IT, they want to manage their business”, explains Simon Piff, a practice director for enterprise infrastructure at www.IDC.com , the global IT market researcher. Cloud applications for HR and Staffing also can support fast, scalable, and incrementally priced growth.
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 by Tim Giehll
Tim Giehll and Sara Moss are excited to bring you a revolutionary blog about a revolutionary concept: human capital supply chains. Below is an introduction to the concept, and an executive summary not just of the book, but of this blog itself.
Corporations have been building and optimizing manufacturing supply chains for over three decades. Companies like Dell and Wal-Mart are famous for leveraging supply chain management techniques to breakout from their competitors and dominate their markets. In the past 30 years we’ve shifted from a manufacturing economy to a knowledge economy. For companies that want to grow their businesses in a post-recession economy, it’s time to refocus and apply the lessons learned from optimizing your product lines to optimizing your workforce.
Sara Moss is co-founder and CEO of The Code Works Inc., a technology consulting company focused on the staffing and recruiting industry. Sara and her team develop actionable technology strategies to enable their client’s business goals.
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