Glassdoor released a list of the top companies to work for in 2013. The results are based on employee feedback and amongst the top are companies such as Facebook, McKinsey, Riverbed Technologies, Bain & Company, Google, Edelman, National Instruments, In-And-Out Burger and BCG. There are some things which good employers provide, that are mentioned over…
Shaping Ideal Careers
Talent Management & Training
The Need for Training in Creativity and Innovation
Technological Innovation New products and services are appearing all the time and the latest versions of products are appearing more quickly than ever before. Technological innovation facilitates this increasing rate of product development. Technological innovation also facilitates the development of new processes that produce these products and services more quickly or with better quality. Items…
DIY (Do-It-Yourself) for Effective Recruitment & Selection
Time and Money Recruitment and selection of employees can be expensive, especially so when those employed do not stay. The direct costs involved include advertising vacancies, recruitment agencies, and possibly initial training. Then there is the cost of staff time for those involved - not only the time of those involved in writing advertisements, meeting…
Majority Of People Hired In Singapore Are Average Or Bad Performers
Hudson Singapore recently surveyed over 600 executives from various sectors in Singapore. One of the topics they covered in the survey was the quality and performance of employees hired. In Singapore, across all the sectors surveyed, more than 50% of hires are considered ‘average’ or ‘bad’. Here is a collection of graphs from the survey: Hiring…
When The Money Doesn’t Matter: Designing Non-Financial Incentive Plans
For all the salary discussions happening in the workplace, the reality for many workers is that the money doesn’t matter. In Singapore, the recent Lumesse survey showed that local workers are the least happy and least loyal of any employee population in the world. This is not tied to financial compensation, but rather a lack…
5 Top Non-Financial Bonuses
There’s more than one way to effectively reward employees and top performers. Along with cash rewards, there are also non-financial bonuses which can be given. After all, once your employees have achieved a certain salary level, the value of additional dollars is negligible, and at any salary level, there are things that employees value more…
Learning From Talent Management Failures - An Analysis Of AOL & TechCrunch
AOL publicly announced their acquisition of TechCrunch on September 28th, 2010. Less than a year later, TechCrunch’s top talents have exited with major drama and the investment, valued at between $30 million USD, is widely considered to be a near-total loss. It’s caused significant loss of face for AOL and acting manager Arianna Huffington, while…
Talent Management Lessons From Steve Jobs
In his 56 years, Steve Jobs earned accolades not just for the technologies he created, but also for the way he managed his staff. Under his leadership, the team at Apple grew from a group of individual geniuses to a cohesive team that could unite itself to bring some truly unique products to the market. …
Set New Employees Up for Success
Your new hire is complete and an excited employee is about to begin a new endeavor that involves significant risk and reward for both your company and your employee. Knowing that a significant percentage of new hires fail to deliver anticipated performance, what can you do to help ensure success? Effective onboarding begins well before…
Ensuring Corporate Training Sticks
There are organisational costs to training - and not just financial costs but opportunity costs as well as other resources. Course participants invest their precious time and energy in the training – they are also taken out of their comfort zone and feel the stress of doing new things or doing familiar things in a…