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HR should be a key player when it comes to both setting and meeting overall objectives of your organization. To do this, HR strategy must be aligned with organizational…
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Interactive HR Strategy and Planning Tune-up Diagnostic
The process group “Develop and manage HR planning, policies, and strategies” represents the overarching strategy and planning setting for the HR function at the beginning of…
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Developing the HR Talent Pipeline
In the everyday course of devising HR strategies that align with corporate goals, anticipating future workforce needs across departments, and hiring, developing, and engaging…
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How to Develop an HR Business Case
Find out what APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking research has to report regarding HR's use of formal business cases. Then learn how to craft an effective HR business case-…
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Creating the HR Strategy: Essential Inputs
Strategy development is the most important responsibility of an HR executive. A well-considered HR strategy is comprehensive and ensures that the business has the talent it…
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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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3 Key Steps for Addressing Turnover
An organization’s turnover rate provides key insights into the health of its workforce and its approach to human capital management more broadly. But in order to be…
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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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Video Interview Checklist for Employers
Today's recruiting and hiring dynamics require organizations to be more agile in how they interview job candidates which includes using newer techniques like video interviews…
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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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Interactive Talent Acquisition Tune-up Diagnostic
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking Talent Optimization survey, this interactive diagnostic in Excel can help you compare your recruiting process…
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