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May 22, 2008
Vol 6  No 10

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Despite Success, There Are Reasons to Be Wary of Referral Programs

Employers unfamiliar with referral programs can inadvertently create an HR phenomenon known as inbreeding, which occurs when companies continually recruit candidates that are virtual clones of the existing workforce population.

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Job Fairs Find New Home Under a Virtual Roof

The popularity of virtual career fairs has grown in part because companies have grown comfortable with using online recruitment tools—such as job boards and social networking—and are willing to be more experimental.

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Workforce Management’s newest featured blog,
Fistful of Talent, presents all sides of the talent equation. Fistful of Talent offers opinions from recruiters, HR, consultants and corporate types on all things talent. Kris Dunn, author of the HR Capitalist blog, has assembled an all-star posse of posters who contribute to Fistful of Talent, including Paul Hebert of Incentive Intelligence, Tim Tolan of Sanford Rose Associates, Michael Wolfe of SourceMedical, Jennifer McClure of Centennial, Jessica Lee of APCO, Beth Kobermann of Honeywell, Kelly Dingee of AIRS and Maren Hogan of HCI.

Fistful of Talent notes: We Just Aren’t Sexy Enough! The Future of HR—Part One.

 
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Talent Acquisition Ownership
Percentage of HR executives and non-HR executives reporting their perceptions of owners/influencers of talent acquisition strategy, 2007

  HR executives Non-HR executives
HR     72%    51%
Recruiting/staffing 43 22
Company management 45 60
Business unit management 34 44
Source: Aberdeen Group

Reasons to Stay
Percentage of employers reporting top five reasons employees stay on the job, and employees reporting reasons they stay, 2008

  Employers Employees
Relationships with co-workers    31%    25%
Relationship with manager(s) 22 25
Desirable working hours 17 22
Attractive compensation 23 20
Attractive benefits 18 20
Note: Survey of 245 human resources representatives and 7,101 employees.
Source: Salary.com
 

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