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APQC’s Resource Library is your source for timely and topical information to help you meet your most complex business process and knowledge management challenges. Explore our ever-growing collection of more than 8,600 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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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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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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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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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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Organizations that can hire more quickly than their peers and competitors have a distinct advantage in the talent marketplace. Moving too quickly to hire, however, could end…
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Talent Acquisition Technology: Survey Report
This report explores how organizations that completed APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® Assessment in Talent Acquisition during 2023 are using technology in recruiting,…
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Get Finance Talent in the Door
In this article, APQC draws from the findings of its Future of Finance Talent study to highlight the strategies and practices that leading organizations use to acquire…
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In this article, APQC reviews cross-industry data on the percentage of positions filled by internal candidates, provides benchmarking guidance to help you better assess your…
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The Future of Finance Talent: Enabling a Future-Focused Talent Management Strategy
The finance function is evolving in many organizations as finance leaders look to add higher-value services to their traditional focus on administration and compliance. With…