Research

The Future of Talent Management: The Four Stages of Evolution examines the stages of maturity and further defines the future of talent management. It provides a practical tool to help companies measure where their applications and strategies fit in the Talent Management Maturity Model and also identifies opportunities and next steps for driving business performance.

The Human Energy Crisis: Technology's Role in Supporting Field Workforce, Hourly, and High-Volume Hiring Needs challenges small and medium businesses to employ new techniques and technologies to attain their hiring objectives. The labor pool is shrinking. With annual turnover exceeding 100 percent in some industries, not even a recession will resolve the difficulties inherent in finding qualified workers.

Economic Downturn Does Not Equal Talent Management Downturn by Taleo Research, in association with the Human Capital Institute, reports what organizations are doing to address talent management challenges and whether the economic downturn is impacting plans or reducing today's unprecedented urgency for talent strategies to drive performance.

Are You A Gen Y Magnet? We recently hosted the “Are You A Gen Y Magnet?” webinar with Ryan Healy, the co-founder of Brazen Careerist.  We received over 230 questions from the audience; they asked everything from:  How much pay is important to Gen Y? to Do you think Gen Y has a responsibility to adapt to the rest of the world? Ryan has grouped these questions into 20 main categories, and answered them from his own Gen Y perspective.  He also tapped into Brazen Careerists’ online Gen Y community and posed a few of the questions there.