Past Issues

In this Month’s Issue:

IHRIM News and Updates

Fishing on Facebook: Do you ask job applicants for their social media passwords?

Guidelines for Managing the Security of Mobile Devices in the Enterprise

Staying Ahead of the HR Content Challenge

Trends in Employee Recognition

Talent Shortage Survey: Research Results

HR Metrics Key to Strategic Planning

The Talent Imperative: The Essential - and Overlooked - Ingredient for Corporate Growth

IHRIM Publications -   The June/July issue  explores the changing landscape of HR and the technology that supports it.  The August/September issue provides valuable insights into the various dimensions of Workforce Management

Event Calendar

IHRIM webinars and webinar recordings are complimentary to members

2013 Sizzling Summer Webinar Series

September 4 IHRIM Webinar:
From Employee Portal to Social Internet: Reimagining Employee Engagement

September 25 IHRIM Webinar:
Creating an Integrated Technology and Service Delivery Strategy: Towers Watson's 2013 HR Service Delivery and Technology Survey Results. Sponsored by Towers Watson

October 15: IHRIM’s Advanced Staffing Analytics Course, San Francisco, CA

October 16: 2013 IHRIM Workforce Analytics Forum, San Francisco, CA

IHRIM’s HRIP Certification Program - Exam Options to Fit Your Schedule!
 All of our exam options provide you with the flexibility to take the exam at a date and time - and location - that best fits your schedule. Go to HRIP Certification for more information. 

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IHRIM 2014 Conference
June 1-4, Anaheim, CA

IHRIM News and Updates

Fishing on Facebook: Do you ask job applicants for their social media passwords?  

by Lily M. Strumwasser

You are a hiring manager reviewing a stack of resumes for an available position at your company. One candidate’s resume sparks your interest and you enter his name into Google. This search leads to his LinkedIn, Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook profiles. The applicant’s social media content is innocuous because he blocked his profiles from public view. Nevertheless, he is well qualified for the position, and you invite him to your office for an interview. You begin by asking questions about his experience and references. Then, you ask him to provide you with his Facebook username and password so you can view his restricted profile. Your rationale is that a glimpse of the applicant’s private life will help you evaluate if he is a good fit with the company. 

Read the full article

Guidelines for Managing the Security of Mobile Devices in the Enterprise  

The (U.S.) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently issued guidelines to help federal agencies manage and secure mobile devices used by their employees for government business. A valuable resource on enterprise mobile device security for all businesses, not just federal agencies, the guidelines are designed to be used by CIOs, CISOs, and other information security professionals as best practices when designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise-level mobile device security.      

Read the guidelines

Staying Ahead of the HR Content Challenge 

How leading organizations can capitalize on the explosive growth of HR content and improve productivity and employee engagement

On the good side, if managed properly, content can help HR transform businesses into highly effective organizations, delivering a true competitive edge. Unfortunately, before realizing the benefits, you have to overcome the curse of being overwhelmed by today’s meteoric rise of content, both the traditional paper-based kind and the ever-growing digital variety.

That employers are being inundated with content is undeniable. IDC, the Framingham, Mass.-based global provider of market intelligence and advisory services, reports that by the end of this year, “the amount of digital information produced should equal nearly 2,500 exabytes [equivalent to 2,500 billion gigabytes], or five times that produced in 2008.” Of course, that doesn’t even include physical (paper) documents.

While the massive amounts of content being generated touch all business areas, HR is certainly one of the most affected areas when it comes to today’s content avalanche—which, apart from paper, includes video, recruiting materials, employee communications, total rewards, email, social media, portals and other formats. 

Read the white paper from OpenText

Trends in Employee Recognition

In the past decade, WorldatWork has found that recognition programs continue to hold their place in the total rewards tool kit. 88% of organizations (86% in 2011) have recognition programs in place. This appears to be trending back up as the economy recovers. And while 70% offer between three and six different programs, the average number of programs offered has declined from 4.5 to 3.9. Specific applications may change as the environment, economy and labor markets shift, but new data suggest that even with a recession and some visible blips in the data during the past few years, recognition programs remain an important variable in the total rewards equation.. 

Read the report from WorldatWork

Talent Shortage Survey: Research Results

ManpowerGroup recently surveyed nearly 40,000 employers across 42 countries and territories for our annual Talent Shortage Survey. The 2013 survey is the eighth in the series. The research on the following pages identifies the proportion of employers who report difficulty filling positions in their organization. It reports on which jobs employers say are most difficult to fill, and identifies candidate shortcomings that are preventing employers from filling positions. Employers are also asked to gauge the degree of impact talent shortages have on their organizations and which strategies they are using to overcome the skills gap.

Today’s competitive business environment continues to increase pressure on employers as they seek more cost structure flexibility while negotiating increasingly volatile economic cycles. Business leaders must confront the challenge of executing business strategies and remaining competitive while simultaneously dealing with value/margin compression amid ongoing economic uncertainty.

Read the research results

HR Metrics Key to Strategic Planning

Developing HR analytics that can more effectively slice and dice the data that's routinely being captured about employees and their overall contribution to the business can help HR validate their efforts. But in order to create these metrics, HR leaders must take a fresh look at the types of information being collected that can help senior executives make better decisions. This E-Guide explores how HR can capitalize on lessons learned from the marketing department when it comes to finding the data, asking the right questions and interpreting data. 

Read the E-Guide

Interested in hearing more about HR metrics and workforce planning?  Register today for the IHRIM 2013 Workforce Analytics Forum to be held on October 16 in San Francisco, CA.  For more information on this special - focused - event and our half day Advanced Staffing Analytics Course to be held on Tuesday, October 15 - go to http://bit.ly/IHRIM_2013WorkforceAnalyticsForum.

The Talent Imperative: The Essential - and Overlooked - Ingredient for Corporate Growth 

A comprehensive talent management program addressing all key issues inherent in recruitment, development, retention and succession planning—all fully integrated within a growth-oriented strategic plan? Come again?

In growth mode, chasing so many business opportunities, talent is almost an afterthought. Human resources, HR, is viewed as a compliance activity, more focused on getting Social Security and unemployment boxes ticked than on ensuring a good fit with strategy as well as setting the stage for strong employee engagement, development and performance. The end result? Still, the company performs well. But over time that performance diminishes. And the question becomes, at what point is company performance being hampered by a less than optimal alignment of business needs and talent strategies? Is high growth—or the expectation of high growth—blinding your private enterprise to its core human resources challenges? Could your organization benefit from adopting just one or more of a handful of what others are finding to be highly effective HR management practices? 

Read the full report 

IHRIM Publications

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June/July 2013 Issue – “Physician, heal thyself.” The intent of that well-known saying equally applies to the Human Resources function. HR must not only help their business clients adapt to change but also has to adapt itself to sweeping changes that are redefining its structure and ability to be both relevant and effective. In this issue of WSR we will explore the changing landscape of HR and the technology that supports it. 

August/September 2013 Issue – This issue provides valuable insights into the various dimensions of Workforce Management. Based on the "people, process, technology" points of view, articles in this issue examine: The challenges of workforce management across the varying talent pools available to an organization; how workforce management impacts different employee life-cycle processes, and the various technology delivery deployment models now available to manage your workforce regardless of industry or size..

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