HR software deployments: ‘Big bang’ or phased roll-out? Part two
In part one of this two part article, we heard from construction consultancy, Cyril Sweett, about the merits of taking a ‘big bang’, ‘all-in-one-go’ approach to introducing a new human capital management system. This second part looks at the pros and cons of taking an alternative tack, however – that of phasing in a deployment […]
One in five tech employers reject candidates due to their social media profile
Almost one in five technology firms have actively chosen not to hire someone because of their social media profile, research has revealed. In previous runs of the study, around 40% or so respondents’ checked out candidates’ profiles on social media sites. But this is the first time that they have admitted to rejecting candidates because […]
Salesforce.com to make HR “a weapon for transformation”
Salesforce.com has proclaimed that it wants to make HR “a weapon for transformation” by enabling practitioners to interact with workers in a more social way. The Software-as-a-Service vendor made the statement as it launched the first fruit of its Rypple acquisition in the shape of a performance management application. The offering dubbed ‘Salesforce Rypple’ […]
National Science and Engineering Week: UK to be 2m engineers short by 2015
Guess how many engineers and scientists we’ll need to remain competitive in the next five years? Some 2.2 million. How many kids are going into engineering at the moment as a career? More like 125,000. That sobering statistic is one of the prompts behind ‘The Big Bang Fair,’ a jobs fair that hopes to […]
500 KPMG staff informed of redundancy risk – by voicemail
Hundreds of staff at the accountancy arm of management consultancy, KPMG, have been informed that they are at risk of redundancy – by voicemail. The company has, somewhat ironically, been voted ‘one of the best companies to work for’ by its staff over six consecutive years. But five hundred employees were reportedly sent a […]
HR software deployments: ‘Big bang’ or phased roll-out?
There are two possible approaches to introducing a new HR system – one is to go for a big bang, ‘all-in-one-go’ implementation, while the second is to phase in the deployment over time. And both approaches have their merits as was highlighted at software supplier Unit4’s customer conference in Birmingham last month. Construction consultancy, Cyril […]
Talent Spot: Community blogger, Ron Thomas
Ron Thomas, a principal at New York-based HR consultancy StrategyFocusedHR and favourite HRzone blogger, always knew that business was his calling, even if he didn’t know in exactly which branch he’d end up. “I knew I was going to major in business in college,” he says. “I was always intrigued by people who came to […]
Addressing shared HR service challenges
With public sector budget cuts still on the cards and an ever-increasing focus being placed on generating efficiency savings, it is surprising perhaps that more public authorities have not opted to go down the shared services route. But a recent survey that we commissioned among 100 UK public sector representatives from functions such as HR, […]
CEO Insight: Salesforce’s Marc Benioff – ‘The HCM software old guard can’t keep up’
SAP and Oracle’s respective moves to buy up human capital management software firms is not going to help them and just sends out confusing messages to the market. This is the typically robust claim made by Marc Benioff, the outspoken chief executive of Software-as-a-Service-based customer relationship management firm, Salesforce.com, which is likewise starting to position itself […]
Cloud becomes the default for SAP’s HR applications
Since purchasing SuccessFactors, SAP has designated Software-as-a-Service as its default mode of delivering HR applications. The enterprise applications vendor has already moved its talent management software into maintenance mode, although it still plans to support the modules until 2020. It also intends to provide customers with selective enhancements over that period. As for its […]
CEO Insight: SuccessFactors’ Lars Dalgaard on new owner, SAP
For the last couple of years, SuccessFactors‘ chief executive Lars Dalgaard has used a slide in his presentations that picks out the headlines in German newspapers reporting when his firm won a major Software-as-a-Service-based human capital management contract at Siemens out from under the corporate nose of SAP. It’s a slide that we can assume won’t be getting […]
CEO Insight: LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner on the site’s recruitment ambitions
In the wake of much consolidation in the HR applications space, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that the world’s most popular HR system in the space of online recruitment anyway is, in fact, LinkedIn. And if LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner gets his way, this is something that more and more […]
Analysis: Oracle’s Taleo buy marks tipping point in talent management sector
Oracle’s takeover of Taleo yesterday could mark a tipping point in the evolution of the talent management software sector, analysts believe. The story so far is this: SAP buys Software-as-a-Service vendor, SuccessFactors, to beef up its next generation human capital and talent management offerings. Newcomer Workday, which is also an SaaS provider, readies itself […]
Remote working: How to get started
Over the last ten years remote working has been steadily gaining a foothold in the UK workplace, changing the nature of work and the daily commute. For many businesses, it now also forms a key part of their contingency plans, enabling employees to carry on working should unexpected or even expected events such as the […]
Oracle aims to up SaaS HCM credentials with Taleo swoop
If HR directors ever felt that they were being neglected by the software industry, those days should now be well and truly over. Instead there is a big old war brewing to try and woo them over to the next generation of human capital management applications. And to this end, Oracle swooped on Taleo […]
Blog: Why learning should never end
I will be glad when this is over. I will never have to study again". That was a statement from my daughter during finals week in her senior year of college at Penn State. She sounded worn out. As I listened on the other end of the phone, I looked at my watch and […]
Workers more ‘stressed and insecure’ than in Queen’s coronation year
In the year of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, it appears that, despite higher levels of personal prosperity, workers are more stressed and more insecure than they were 60 years ago. According to a special Work Audit report published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development to explore how the world of work in the […]
London 2012: Civil servants ordered to work from home during Olympics
Staff across Whitehall will be forced to work from home during the Olympics and Paralympics Games in order to ease the pressure on London’s public transport network. Civil servants will be ordered not to commute to work for up to seven weeks to prevent the public transport network in the capital from becoming over-congested. Operation […]
Blog: Is there a place for QR codes in recruitment?
As digital technology continues to engrain itself in our day to day lives, we’ve been increasingly looking at how we can reach our candidates through these new channels. It seems that as quickly as organisations get comfortable with one communications channel, another one springs up! As specialist online recruiters, it’s our job to help […]
Blog: Question for 2102 – why would someone work for you?
As we enter the doors of 2012, the prognosticators have all given their respective thoughts on what is coming into focus for the year. These are all great readings, but if you have survived these past few years of economic turmoil (and the aftermath), you know that, really, who knows? All organizations have basically […]
