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Finds Its Brassring When you are in the HR business, your own human capital management practices are held to a high standard. Deb Besemer, president and chief executive officer of BrassRing, a provider of talent management solutions, agrees that you can be held under a microscope, saying with humor in her voice, “The industry will call us on it!” Her ability to joke about such scrutiny comes from her confidence in BrassRing’s internal HR strategies. |
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| The
Expanding Role of Outsourcing Recruitment outsourcing isn’t an “all or nothing” proposition, and can be a practical way to obtain just-in-time recruiting support to meet sudden, increased demand for talent. Many organizations are also finding short-term outsourced recruiting engagements to be an ideal way to “try-before-you-buy” to determine if a long-term, ongoing outsourced recruitment engagement is appropriate. |
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| Are
You Ready to Outsource Recruitment? With the looming retirement wave set to break by 2011, many Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies have begun to increase their investment in recruitment solutions and technology, recognizing that attracting and retaining quality talent is critical to their success. |
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| Blue Cross Blue
Shield of North Carolina From the weather-beaten shoreline of the Outer Banks to the ancient Great Smoky Mountains, residents across North Carolina can count on two things: thrilling college basketball seasons and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina. |
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| Workforce
By Design According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 25 percent of the working population will reach retirement age by 2010, resulting in a potential worker shortage of nearly 10 million. Yet, many companies currently have no strategy to ensure a ready supply of candidates to fill key jobs. |
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2005 |
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| What Should
HR Executives' Top Priority be as They Enter 2006? BrassRing’s CEO Deb Besemer presents her views on the importance of employment branding in attracting ideal job candidates. |
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| Cultural
Quandary Studies indicate a significant percentage of the U.S. workforce is, to some degree or another, disengaged from work. Exact figures vary, but the consistent theme is clear: If the job market were just a fraction more buoyant, millions of workers would be trying to jump ship in a hurry. |
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| Personality
Counts When looking for a job these days, you'll not only fill out an application and have an interview, but chances are, you'll be asked to take a personality test. However, personality isn’t the only trait that can, and should, be considered when assessing a potential employee. |
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| HR Executive
“Dream Teams” Read how Time Warner’s HR and IT teams collaborate on major projects in such business-critical areas as e-recruiting, self-service, training, compensation and talent retention. |
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| HR
Executive “Top 10 HR Products of 2005” Read about BrassRing’s Voice Gateway, selected as one of the Top 10 HR Products of 2005. |
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| HR
Magazine “Improving Your Online Application Process” Review BrassRing insights on how to ensure your online application process keeps candidates engaged. |
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| A Workforce By Design
Should Help Weather Any Impending Labor Storm With the U.S. unemployment rate at a record low of 5 percent, according to a U.S. Department of Labor report covering May 2005, and the incidence of unfilled jobs, a labor shortage isn’t just approaching, it’s here. |
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| BrassRing Labs
“Community” at Leading Edge of Cultural Communication in
Recruiting As companies look for ways to communicate their corporate culture to prospects and candidates, the BrassRing Labs team is developing features to meet the demand. |
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| The Wall Street
Transcript Interview with Deb Besemer BrassRing CEO Deb Besemer shares her perspective on global talent management challenges, and how BrassRing can help organizations meet these challenges. |
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| Some Companies
Have Found that Turning Their Recruitment Processes Over to an Outside
Firm Lets Them do More Than Simply Cut Costs When Brown-Forman a diversified producer and marketer of fine quality consumer products needed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its recruitment processes, the company found a solution with BrassRing's outsourced recruitment services offering. |
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| Improving Recruitment
with IT When telecommunications support company Mantech decided to streamline their recruitment, they realized the first thing they needed was a clearer communication process. |
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| Recruitment Requires
“Take Charge" Attitude Employers must ramp up recruitment efforts to attract and retain the best employees as looming demographics indicate a shortage of qualified workers. |
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| BrassRing
Announces Consulting-Based eRecruit Migration Offer BrassRing, a leading provider of talent management solutions, today announces its plans to offer a free migration consultation to organizations considering a move from PeopleSoft to another talent management solution. |
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| BrassRing
Announces Consulting-Based eRecruit Migration Offer BrassRing a leading provider of talent management solutions, today announces its plans to offer a free migration consultation to organizations considering a move from PeopleSoft to another talent management solution. |
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| Making
Talent Management Part of Corporate Global Initiatives With more companies operating globally than ever before, the level of competition among multinationals has increased dramatically, forcing companies to examine and increase efficiencies across every aspect of their business strategy, including talent management. |
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2004 |
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| My Take -
Mark Dane One of the biggest challenges I see facing HR professionals in 2005 is determining how their organization plans to address the increasingly inefficient process of recruiting. |
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| Streamlining
the Process Recruitment technology has streamlined HR processes at Ernst & Young UK, reports its resourcing director Stevan Rolls. |
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| ROI
Report: An Interview with Mark Dane Recruiting managers hate talking about ROI primarily because it's difficult to get a handle on all of the costs. But Mark Dane, who's the Founder and Chief scientist of BrassRing, has found a solution. He and his company have revamped the recruiting process and created a service that helps manage the process. |
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| Whatever
You Want HR and payroll systems don't live up to their promise, and employers don't use them strategically. At least, that is the common view. Payroll World convened a round-table discussion to ask if the industry is maturing. |
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| Talent
Management Puts People and Recruitment Costs First Ask a random sample of senior managers in large companies to name their most important asset and, chances are, the majority will unhesitatingly place their people in pole position. They will say, “We are nothing without our people.” |
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| How I do it - An
Interview with BrassRing Customer, Stevan Rolls - Ernst and Young Online recruitment magazine talks to the national director of resourcing at Ernst and Young. |
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| Trial
and Error How can you ensure that your HR software does what it is supposed to do? Trevor Clawson outlines the pitfalls of introducing news systems - and how to avoid them. |
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2003 |
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| Hiring Online Saves
Money and Produces Better Candidates During the hiring slump of the past couple of years, recruiting vendors have continued to improve their products beyond process automation to help companies like yours get good returns on their investments from recruiting application implementations. |
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| Ernst &
Young Selects BrassRing as UK Talent Management Solution Ernst & Young, one of the world's largest professional services firms, has chosen BrassRing, the leading provider of Talent Management Solutions to automate its UK recruitment process. |
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| ExxonMobil processes
candidates electronically The "war for talent" is in full swing. The recent economic decline has forced companies to take fewer risks when hiring new employees. |
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| Navigating Recruitment
Outsourcing In a sea of people, how can your company find the best job candidates and Employees? Many find that outsourcing the recruitment function reduces company Time, effort, and cost and ends in better results. |
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| Putting
People First Ask a random sample of senior managers in large companies to name their most important asset and, chances are, the majority will unhesitatingly place their people in pole position. We are nothing, they will say, without our people. |
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2002 |
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| The
Rise of New Recruitment Luminaries in 2003 I highly recommend the new movie "Frida" as a must-see this holiday season. The movie gives wonderful insight into the mind and heart of the famed artist and wife of Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo. |
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| Large Online Sites
Try to Think Small Like many products of the technology boom, online job boards have not exactly gone bust, but they are reinventing themselves. |
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| Forecast Calls
For Improving Climate - Tech Still Weak, But Analysts See Downturns'
End "The fact that the unemployment rate didn't slide back in January is a sign, I think, that we've seen the worst and that there will be a slow, modest recovery," said Deborah Besemer, chairwoman of the 600- member Massachusetts Software and Internet Council. |
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| BrassRing
Teams With HRchitect BrassRing, the Waltham, Mass.-based provider of Talent Relationship Management (TRM) and eRecruiting services, today announced that it has added HRchitect as a certified BrassRing Application Service Provider (ASP) consulting partner. |
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| The 100 Superstars
of HR Outsourcing By The Editors of HRO Today Magazine - In recent years, outsourcing has burst onto the American business scene with the power and brilliance of a "supernova." |
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| Software
Encourages Collaboration In Hiring Tools let more employees participate in the recruiting process. |
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| BrassRing Partners
With Towers Perrin BrassRing, a provider of enterprise talent recruiting solution, has partnered with global HR consulting firm, Towers Perrin. |
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| Towers Perrin
and BrassRing team up BrassRing and management and human resource consulting firms Towers Perrin have formed an exclusive partnership under which Towers Perrin will provide e-cruiting integration services to BrassRing customers licensing BrassRing's on-premise e-cruiting system. |
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