tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39750672011-04-21T13:25:23.759-07:00My thoughts, opinions, and comments on the Talent Management Market.Bloggernoreply@blogger.comBlogger451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975067.post-51283716159471988382009-01-13T07:51:00.000-08:002009-01-13T07:55:58.312-08:00

I know it's been a while since my last post. Gosh, it's been over 4 years. But I recently got an itch to revisit this thing, and it comes on the heels of a recent TechCrunch post that I saw about Delicious founder Joshua Schachter moving over to Google. I know Yahoo! has been through some tough years, but it seems that they are not doing much to keep the brilliant minds that have developed some

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I'm back. I've been extremely busy - and many of you have been emailing your frustration - my deepest apologies for not being able to keep up the blog. While I've been engaged in a number of assignments - getting deeper into so many of the solutions out there - a LOT has happened in our little market. We'll be catching up on all of the developments over the next few weeks, and I'm reformatting

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Vendor Report Card Schedule This new batch of Vendor Report Cards are under way. We're almost ready to post our first of the year. Based on your votes the current order follows: Brassring Virtual Edge Deploy Solutions hire.com You can impact the order by emailing in your vote. We're polishing up the report cards - but in the mean time, if you have a few minutes to waste and want a good

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A few personal challenges have kept me away from my blog. Thanks to so many of you for your emails in support. Unfortunately, since I don't generate any advertising dollars here, while that keeps me unbiased, it sometimes means when things get tight the blog pays the price. I am writing, I am updating the next vendor report card. A lot has been going on in the market, and I have a lot to say

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Vendor Report Card The next vendor report card will be posted tonight - I PROMISE. I've been a little distracted with all the emails of support after responding to HR.com's Debbie McGrath - thank you all for the support! I find it interesting that those Debbie is trying to support are actually the most vocal in their support in my InBox. In the mean time I need some help planning the

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One more distraction before the next Vendor Report Card! We get a lot of email here. Most all of it is supportive. Today we received a very critical message from Debbie McGrath, CEO of hr.com. The email copied Derek Mercer, CEO of Recruitmax - Deb Besemer, CEO of BrassRing - Luis Tetu, CEO of Recruitsoft - "bill" from lrp.com, although when I replied it turns out Debbie had his email wrong (

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Virtual Edge keeps a promise. I know - I know, you are all emailing me wondering when the next Vendor Report Card is. It's on its way. But, in the mean time, it's very unusual in this day and age that someone keeps a promise. When it happens it's good to reflect on it. That very thing happened today. Virtual Edge's VP of Corporate Development emailed today, "closing the loop" on a

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Just a quick post to thank everyone. Once again I've been overwhelmed by the support received for this blog. It's incredibly motivating. Thanks to all of you that have taken the time to share your thoughts, experiences, perspectives, and feedback! I am working to respond to each of you in detail individually, and of course that takes time. I appreciate your patience. The next vendor report

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The Talent Myth Part V, continued The Curse of the ATS Marketplace Vendor Report Cards Continuing on with our Vendor evaluations against the 6 mistakes I've outlined in The Curse of the ATS Marketplace. Each vendor will be reviewed against the six mistakes listed so far. We will also give general impressions of the vendor, their products, service, and any overall issues. Our comments will

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The Talent Myth Part V The Curse of the ATS Marketplace Vendor Report Cards We should be ready to post the next Vendor Report Card very soon! Thank you all for the continued support. Your emails have been inspiring. I look forward to hearing from more of you as we move on to our next Vendor. You still have some time to impact which vendor gets reviewed when. Email us here and tell us who

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The Talent Myth Part V, continued The Curse of the ATS Marketplace Mistake Number 3 in Progress.... If you were a newsletter subscriber you would have received this post in your email 4 days ago. In my September 16 post I covered the real-time execution of Mistake Number 3 by Recruitsoft and hire.com. Mistake #3 was: They diluted their strength as a vendor by diluting their domain

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The Talent Myth Part V, continued The Curse of the ATS Marketplace Vendor Report Cards In my last post I asked the readers and subscribers to the Talent Management Blog Newsletter to identify which vendor they would like to be the first evaluated against the 6 mistakes I've outlined so far in The Curse of the ATS Marketplace. We will review each vendor against the six mistakes listed so far.

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The Talent Myth Part V, continued The Curse of the ATS Marketplace My last few posts have distracted us from The Curse of the ATS Marketplace. It is now back by popular demand!... This week we return to following the litany of mistakes that have been made and repeated by every vendor in our little market. These mistakes have added up to what I call the path to extinction. So far we've

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Update/Correction on September 16 Post New data in from Virtual Edge - I did mention that I didn't have much data on them.... They seem to be one of the most active vendors in the space signing 6 new customers this year to date. The customers range in size from 1,000 to 25,000 employees. Their VP of Corporate Development claims that they will be ready to announce another 6 new customers at

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BrassRing Rumor After-shocks The dialogue here and on the StaffingManagement Blog regarding the sales leaders in this space deserves a little more clarification based upon a few of the emails I've received recently: I don't share the SMS Blog's opinion of Recruitmax because of their approach in the market - specifically their strategy is singley focused on one issue: price. Their interface

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The BrassRing Rumor When Sumser noted the rumor about BrassRing in his Bugler today it brought a chuckle out of me. He is so skilled at stirring the pot! While it wouldn't be surprising for BrassRing to implode (they are the poster-child for the mistakes I write about in The Curse of The ATS Market)... I've fielded a few emails to this Blog regarding the rumor, let me just put it to bed:

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The Talent Myth Part V, continued The Curse of the ATS Marketplace I'm interrupting the weekly addition of Vendor Mistakes added to The Curse of the ATS Marketplace to highlight one of my previously mentioned mistakes in action - live if you will - at two of the vendors in our market. A few weeks ago I wrote about Step Three on the path to extinction: They diluted their strength as a vendor

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The Talent Myth Part V, continued The Curse of the ATS Marketplace Thank you all so much for the recent interest in the Talent Management Blog and the Talent Management Newsletter. Your feedback and support has been interesting, challenging, and motivating. Please continue to share it. If you are new to my blog, you might want to start by reading my first post. Many of the recent emails have

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The Talent Myth Part V, continued The Curse of the ATS Marketplace Thank you all so much for the recent interest in the Talent Management Blog and the Talent Management Newsletter. Your feedback and support has been interesting, challenging, and motivating. Please continue to share it. If you are new to my blog, you might want to start by reading my first post. Many of the recent emails have

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The Talent Myth Part V, continued The Curse of the ATS Marketplace Thank you all so much for the recent interest in the Talent Management Blog and the Talent Management Newsletter. Your feedback and support has been interesting, challenging, and motivating. Please continue to share it. If you are new to my blog, you might want to start by reading my first post. Many of the recent emails have

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The Talent Myth Part V, continued The Curse of the ATS Marketplace Thank you all so much for the recent interest in the Talent Management Blog and the Talent Management Newsletter. Your feedback and support has been interesting, challenging, and motivating. Please continue to share it. If you are new to my blog, you might want to start by reading my first post. Many of the recent emails have

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The Talent Myth Part V, continued The Curse of the ATS Marketplace Thank you all so much for the recent interest in the Talent Management Blog and the Talent Management Newsletter. Your feedback and support has been interesting, challenging, and motivating. Please continue to share it. If you are new to my blog, you might want to start by reading my first post. Many of the recent emails have

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The Talent Myth Part V, continued The Curse of the ATS Marketplace Let's recap where we are so far in exploring the curse of the ATS Market. To this point we've focused our energies on the start of the industry and two vendors: Resumix and Restrac (now webhire) , aka The Dinosaurs. We have reviewed three of the major mistakes that they made on the path to extinction. It was worthwhile to

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The Talent Myth Part V, continued The Curse of the ATS Marketplace In our ongoing saga, following The Dinosaurs (Resumix and Restrac - now webhire) as they navigate the path to extinction, we have discussed two stops so far: Stop One on the path was: They listened to their customers a little too much, and not effectively for their business. (find this post here) Stop Two on the path was: They

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The Talent Myth Part V, continued The Curse of the ATS Marketplace Last week we explored the first stop on the road to extinction for Resumix and Restrac, whom I affectionately refer to as The Dinosaurs. While the first stop on the path to extinction was an important one, there were several mistakes The Dinosaurs made that have been repeated by most ATS vendors that have come after them. Stop

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The Talent Myth Part V, continued Technology Vendors Continually Make Mistakes that put them on the bottom shelf. Repeat. OR The Curse of the ATS Marketplace I'm back after the July 4th holiday. Recharged and ready to tell the story of the curse of the ATS marketplace. A good curse, or legend of one, starts long ago and far away. This one starts 15 to 20 years ago - before the Internet

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The Talent Myth Part V, continued Technology Vendors Continually Make Mistakes that put them on the bottom shelf. Repeat. OR The Curse of the ATS Marketplace Every single technology vendor that has entered the Talent Management Marketplace has made it to almost exactly the same position in the market - seemed like they were going to make it and couldn't sustain. Some came on strong out of

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The Talent Myth, Part V Technology, Strategy and more on Technology Vendors Thursday's post asked you to think about staffing strategy and how you develop it. The questions asked identified a simplified view of the basic components in developing a Staffing Strategy Plan. As an HR Executive or team, your strategy - like the strategy of every other functional team in your company, should be

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The Talent Myth, Part IV continued The Technology Vendors Thanks to everyone for the recent feedback on this blog - specially to John Sumser at Interbiznet for mentioning the site in his column of yesterday. On again, off again? I agree I have been spotty with the postings, but I'm trying my best to post weekly at a minimum from here forward and attention from Interbiznet is just the thing to

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The Talent Myth, Part IV The Technology Vendors Could HR executives be more confused about technology? In some ways the challenges the HR executive has to deal with in terms of technology vendors are not unique to our little Talent Management sector. The selling of vapor-ware (promising technology that is yet to be delivered), the short shelf-life of technology standards and trends, vendor

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Could I possibly come back after several months on hiatus and ask you to do some homework prior to reading my post? Yes. To prepare for tomorrow's post ask yourself the following questions. Don't over analyze or over engineer your responses, answer them with your gut instinct. It will make tomorrow's content that much more interesting. How many software applications - of any type - for

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Illness, travel, vacation, kids, family, and other distractions have kept me from my blog. I apologize, if you have been checking in and I haven't been writing. I have let us both down.... HOWEVER.... I'm back and I'm focused. The Talent Myth Part IV was originally planned to be about the Industry Press. While there is a lot to say about the industry press, with recent events (Oracle - JD

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The Talent Myth, Part III found below was posted on March 2, 2003 and is the current post to this blog. Please return to see Part IV, coming much sooner than Part III did! Thanks, Talent

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The Talent Myth, Part III Thank You for your continued patience and support for my blog. Your emails have been encouraging. I have no excuse for my lack of content here, other than the crazed pace I've had in my personal and work lives. This blog doesn't pay, you see, so sometimes other priorities prevail. I promise to be more attentive. Please keep your feedback coming, it really does

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Part III of The Talent Myth is on it's way, but for now another question for you to consider: How do you demonstrate your value on a daily basis? even over a month, quarter, or year? If you are in Corporate HR or Staffing I would love to get your perspective on that. If you're in HR you might need a little nudge so here goes: How do you demonstrate on an ongoing basis that you are:

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I apologize, to myself mostly, but I do apologize. I have not been paying attention to my blog. The holidays, business travel, family, and friends have kept me away from continuing The Talent Myth. I am getting ready to publish Part III! It will go up this week! In the mean time here is a question I've been pondering. All the buzz in the market about outsourcing in Human Resources has me

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The Talent Myth, Part II In Part I we explored the part of the Talent Myth owned by Corporation's Chief Executives - It's important to keep in mind as we explore Human Resources and their part in the Talent Myth. First things first, let's understand who we're talking about. When you look at the Global 2000 and their HR teams, the bulk of the people on the "team" have come up through the

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The Talent Myth, Part I Before I can define the Talent Myth, let me set the stage. A small industry came alive over the last 15 years. The Talent Market, The Staffing Markets, The People Market, The Human Capital market, whatever you want to call it. It mushroomed in growth along with the "e-economy" bubble. The so-called "War for Talent" or "Talent Shortage" put an increasing focus on the

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Welcome to The Talent Management Blog! Do we really need another opinion on this? I don't know, nor do I care. I do know I am hoping to accomplish a few things with my little website: 1) Publish my ideas and thoughts in order to refine them for some other medium. A blog is a journal, and I hope that this on-line journal, with some feedback from anyone bored enough to read it, will steer me

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