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The Power Balance

Topics: Benefits, Editorial Advisory Board, Employment Branding, Engagement, Gamification, HR Trends, HRExaminer, Leadership, Maren Hogan, Recruiting Wisdom, Skills Gap, Talent Management, by Maren Hogan

There is a power balance in the branding and recruiting game. When marketers, recruiters and managers forget this, things tend to turn sour.

3 HR Metrics to Monitor Risk

Topics: Analytics, Cathy Missildine, Data, Editorial Advisory Board, Generational Demographics, HR Trends, HRExaminer, Recruiting Strategy, Skills Gap, by Cathy Missildine

The metrics that are tied to organizational strategy and risk are the ones that the C-Suite really cares about.

Google Glass Field Note 4

Topics: HR Scoop, HR Technology, HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, Skills Gap, by John Sumser

In this note, John Sumser details all of the functions and capabilities of the Google Glass device.

Human What?

Topics: HRExaminer, Industry Analysis, John Sumser, Leadership, Learning, Skills Gap, by John Sumser

Humans are not capital. What we call things really, really matters.

HRExaminer v.3.51

Topics: Editorial Advisory Board, Heather Bussing, HRExaminer, John Sumser, New Architecture of Work, Privacy, Skills Gap, Weekly, by John Sumser

Our features this week are highlights from HR Examiner in 2012 and include The Skills Gap, New Architecture of Work and Employee Privacy Series. We’ve enjoyed your company this year and we wish you a wonderful New Year.

Skills Gap: The Series

Topics: John Sumser, Skills Gap, by John Sumser

A walk down any Main Street will show you what’s hapopening in the retail sector. It’s shrinking and getting more technical. At the very same time, retail suffers from surplus and shortage. That’s what’s so tricky about any anlysis of the problem.

Skills Gap 4: Undercapitalization

Topics: HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, Skills Gap, by John Sumser

The demands of cashflow management and finance terms don’t really allow for workers to have much onboarding time. This has increased employers’ desire to have plug and play workers. Some of the skills shortage is simply a question of the company’s debt load. They can’t afford to hire someone who is ‘close enough’.

Five Links: Skills Shortage – Skills Gap

Topics: Big Data, Futures, Generational Demographics, HR Technology, HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, Skills Gap, by John Sumser

Five Links: Skills Shortage / Skills Gap If you’re following the emerging skills gap story, it has a lot of facets. Here are several. The terrain includes a consultant, an online community, college, a study and an analysis. Hays Global Skills Index 2012 The index ranks what used to be called first world countries by […]

Skills Gap 3: The Pace of Change

Topics: Big Data, Futures, Gamification, HR Technology, John Sumser, Skills Gap, by John Sumser

As technology spirals beyond our control, it feels like somebody must have made a mistake. Some blame the school system, some blame the generation of video gamers. You don’t see many executives blaming themselves and trying to figure out what they did wrong.

Skills Gap 2: Outsourcing

Topics: Big Data, Futures, HR Technology, John Sumser, Regionalization, Skills Gap, by John Sumser

In a world dominated by gut hunches, perception is reality. The reason we want to dig a little deeper is that when you solve a problem of perception as if it were a problem of supply, the wrong decisions get made.