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Finding the Best Talent for Your Open Positions

You’re the hiring manager with a major company, and you’ve just been given the task of hiring 5 new professionals within a 30 day time frame. Perhaps a nearly impossible task, you choose to distribute your positions to several contingency recruiting firms, in hopes that someone can find a “needle in a haystack.” The problem is, if the recruiter finds your new hire, you’ll be in the hole between 25 – 30% of the new emplo Read the rest of this entry »

Leveraging social networks & job referral programs to acquire talent globally

The way companies recruit for talent has changed dramatically over the years. No one particular channel able to satisfy a company’s talent needs. The advent of online job boards, social networking sites and job referral programs have helped to alleviate the talent crunch but companies continue to look for alternative cost-effective recruitment channels.

In this article, we explore two channels for talent recruitment

The International Space Station: Picking the right talent for the job

This weekend Space Shuttle Endeavour looks to add another piece the space station’s Japanese Kibo laboratory. At 335 tons in weight and coming in at a staggering price tag of around $100 billion dollars, the International Space Station is the largest engineering project ever undertaken.    With well over 30 shuttle launches to place the station hardware in space and over 100 spacewalks to complete construction, the assembl Read the rest of this entry »

Agco Corporation Selects Sumtotal Talent Management System

SumTotal® Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT), a global provider of talent and learning management solutions, said that AGCO Corporation (NYSE: AG) has purchased the SumTotal Enterprise Suite™to deliver learning, manage employee p Read the rest of this entry »

The Tiffany’s Acquisition of Grace

The competition of jewelry industry is becoming fiercer in an international scope. The old companies like Cartier are coming up with new designs and new series mean; they may attract more consumers. Meanwhile, numerous new companies are coming out. A lot of young people who have just got out of art schools have also joined the rank. They are talented and many of the new designs even shock me.

One of the prominent new com Read the rest of this entry »