One of the most important things that employees communicate to HR executives is that they want to learn and grow in their job. This translates into exposure. And companies like Infosys are ready to offer that exposure. It might be working with a big client like Microsoft, or a trip to the U.S., but HR departments need to identify talent and reciprocate employee initiatives with novel opportunities. Read more
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The fact of the matter is that finding top-notch talent is an arduous task. Although this is usually the same for most companies, regardless of the state of the economy, the recent global recession has made recruitment even more difficult for most firms. Not only is it harder to find good employees with the right skill, it is also hard to attract them. Read more
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Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP. Read more
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Aon Corporation’s global human resource outsourcing and consulting business, Aon Hewitt said that has been ranked as the leader in HR Outsourcing (HRO) in Datamonitor’s 2010 Black Book of Outsourcing. Read more
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To define business process outsourcing briefly, it involves delegating a business process to a vendor who manages the project according to defined parameters. These processes are typically not core business activities but administrative functions required to operate the business. Read more
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The global financial crisis has, in many instances, decimated corporate recruiting departments in particular. After all and if a company is not hiring, there is little need to keep recruiters around on the payroll. Meanwhile, RPO is often billed as a cost effective alternative for dealing with such dramatic swings in staffing levels by allowing a company to quickly scale up or down without the need to first hire recruiters before any uptick and then lay them off again during the next downturn. However, just how effective is RPO or the use of any third party agency verses an in-house recruiting team and is there now a trend towards in-house recruiters? Read more
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Both HR and outsourcing have truly come of age over the past few decades. After all, the HR department was once considered to be just the admin department but today the HR department is increasingly filling a more strategic role within a business and is becoming important for helping organizations to achieve cost reductions through downsizing and changing the way jobs themselves are structured. Meanwhile, outsourcing itself has become a key strategy for organizations to achieve significant cost savings. Read more
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Back in February of 2009, I wrote Where a RPO firm “comes from” defines what and how they deliver. I hypothesized that most companies cannot escape their heritage. I analyzed pure plays, like Pinstripe, and other RPOs from the staffing, technology, and recruitment marketing industries. I concluded, in a somewhat pathetic way, that sometimes this can be a distinct advantage and sometimes not so much. Read more
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Though U.S. tech giants like Microsoft and IBM have dominated the IT scene for a number of years, there is a dubious question haunting IT professionals in America. With the advent of outsourcing and rising joblessness, it is no wonder that the young graduate in computer science or information technology has much to worry about. Read more
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My daily commute to Pinstripe is about 18 miles each way. Last week while driving into work, I got stuck in a major traffic jam. It wasn’t due to severe weather or an unfortunate accident. It was just because there were lots of cars commuting to work. The highway was simply congested with vehicles. Read more
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