Comments on: CEO Survey : Talent still important

By: Saleem Qureshi

Saleem Qureshi — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:22:01 +0000

@Kelly..I agree with your points. Besides, building relationships, developing existing staff, there is something more important, that is talent assessment part, because a company may have have to pay-off in the future for hiring unsuitable talent. For a successful, talent assessment, a company must look into the relevancy of the job description and also design a test meticulously regarding teh KSA of a job to thoroughly gauge a talent.

By: Phillip Tusing

Phillip Tusing — Sun, 10 May 2009 10:03:12 +0000

Hi Kelly,

Good point. I liked your ideas http://anthillonline.com/getting-talent-on-board, . Perhaps, the current downturn is a good time to work on a strategy.

Cheers

Phillip

By: Kelly Magowan

Kelly Magowan — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:01:40 +0000

This is a great topic and post however the reality is that CEO’s and Boards have been going on about this same ‘talent’ spiel since I have been in HR, so well over 12 years. They can be ‘concerned’ but where is the action to drive change on the topic of talent attraction and retention? They should be more than concerned as most organizations success is dependent on having top talent.

Where are leaders and innovators out there in the talent space? Who is driving change when it comes to workforce planning, developing a more contemporary and relevant recruitment process for the information and technology age? Yes, some are using new media and better databases to manage people and resume – however it is not enough and is the easy part of the process to bundle them into a system. The hard part is the workforce planning, building relationships with prospective talent, developing existing staff, succession planning. Who is doing this well?

Unfortunately too many still don’t have the basics in place, so whatever they do beyond this will be adequate at best. It is a challenging issue that CEO’s face and realistically not many are taking real steps to address it. See ‘Getting Talent On Board’ http://anthillonline.com/getting-talent-on-board as a starting point.