HR is evolving into a profession increasingly viewed by the boardroom as strategic and critical to a company’s overall business performance. That's one finding of a study released today by Vurv and the Human Capital Institute. view article »

With more and more companies looking toward total compensation programs Vurv Technology and Aberdeen Group studied 471 organizations to determine what distinguishes the Best in Class practices from the others. The report found, "To achieve Best-in-Class status, companies must ensure that a total compensation program is competitive in the local job market, contains performance benchmark goals that are obtainable and rewards the right employee at the right times for the right reasons." view article »

New research shows that an increasing number of organizations are informally experimenting with Web 2.0 tools for business purposes. A study conducted by think tank Human Capital Institute (HCI) and talent management software provider Cornerstone OnDemand Inc. says more than half of the companies surveyed use communities of practice/groups and chat/instant messaging (IM), with other popular applications including corporate social networks (49 percent) and blogs and/or wikis (39 percent).

To get a copy of "Leveraging Social Networking & Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools in Enterprises" you must be a member of the HCI. Membership is free.

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Organizations can save millions, boost sales and improve productivity by using pre-employment assessments in the talent acquisition process.

Those are some of the findings in PreVisor's 2009 Business Outcomes Study Report. The 3rd annual report released today summarizes 33 business outcomes studies. The rerport found that assessments had a strong and measurable impact on most or all of the firms’ performance metrics.

Register here to get a copy of the report.

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eGrabber Inc., provider of automated Internet research tools, announced results of a recent trial conducted at Microsoft using eGrabber’s recently introduced LeadResearcher tool.

Marvin Smith, a talent sourcer for Microsoft, reported that within 24 hours of deploying LeadResearcher, MS received responses from 117 new applicants for a specific project from a pool of candidates that were short listed, but couldn't be easily contacted.

Go here to read the full Marvin Smith / Microsoft case study.

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