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Total Cost to Acquire Talent
Two trends are putting significant pressure on the cost to acquire talent: 1) scarcity of talent with the latest, most-in-demand skills and 2) competition to provide a…
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Talent Acquisition Tune-Up Diagnostic
In a competitive talent market, successfully meeting business objectives requires talent acquisition practices that differentiate your organization from other employers. Yet,…
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A skills taxonomy is a standard framework that provides a common language for skills and maps their connection to other skills as well as jobs. With a common language to…
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Whether you are looking to ramp up hiring volume fast, explore new talent pipelines, or reduce the administrative burden on your in-house recruiters, outsourcing can make…
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In this article, learn what a job architecture is, why organizations use job architectures, and the benefits that job architectures have for employees. Also included is a…
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Number of Talent Acquisition Employees
Personnel costs are the largest expense in the talent acquisition process. They take up roughly two-thirds of the average talent acquisition budget (with the remainder…
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Optimizing Recruiter Workload
In the field of HR, recruiter workload is a long-standing topic of debate. In fact, determining the optimal recruiter workload is a high stakes task. The greater the volume…
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Time to Fill a Job Opening
Lengthy hiring processes have long-lasting negative effects. Employers that are slow to move candidates through the hiring process lose the best talent to competitors that…
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Summary of Open Standards Benchmarking Measures: HCM Organization
The APQC Open Standards Benchmarking® measure list concisely displays all of the measures currently available for a specific survey. These measures are organized by research…
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Quality of hire is considered a key measure of recruiting process performance. Yet, due to its subjective nature, quality of hire is difficult to assess. This article answers…
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Today’s professionals know that continuous learning is key to career success, but traditional talent development rarely meets the pace or direction at which employees want to…
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Talent Acquisition Key Benchmarks: Industrial Products Industry
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® in Talent Acquisition, this article highlights important measures and median metric values in the industrial…
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Talent Acquisition Key Benchmarks: Insurance Industry
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® in Talent Acquisition, this article highlights important measures and median metric values in the insurance…
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Talent Acquisition Key Benchmarks: Distribution/Transportation Industry
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® in Talent Acquisition, this article highlights important measures and median metric values in the distribution…
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Talent Acquisition Key Benchmarks: Electronics Industry
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® in Talent Acquisition, this article highlights important measures and median metric values in the distribution…