DUBLIN, CA–(Marketwire – February 2, 2010) – Taleo Corporation (NASDAQ: TLEO), the leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions, today announced general availability of Taleo 10™, its new talent management software solution.

Taleo 10 helps companies hire better, manage more effectively and accelerate development of the best performers in the organization. It is built on 10 years of collective talent manag (more…)

We hear about it in the news every so often out here in Silicon Valley: a big player at Google has left for Facebook.  Or a Yahoo executive has been seduced by Microsoft.  Or some perky young startup has snatched a head developer from a venerable software giant.

Silicon Valley’s human resources arena, ripe with star engineers and executives, is  like a day time soap opera, full of unexpected surprises and shocking bet (more…)

The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines talent in three ways:

1) a characteristic feature, aptitude, or disposition of a person or animal
2) the natural endowments of a person
3) a special often athletic, creative, or artistic aptitude

Talent is a trendy word often thrown around within various industry lingos, from Hollywood to Silicon Valley.  In Hollywood, talent used to refer directly to a (more…)

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

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 (more…)