By Anadi Upadhyaya 

I have always enjoyed the process of identifying, attracting and selecting the best talent. Hiring is one of those processes which uses both science (i.e. data science) and art. There are tools and techniques which help you to attract and shortlist candidates worthy for a job interview. Recruiting tools embedded with insightful analytics and various forms of preliminary tests help you to understand candidates better, but final selection is mostly a human driven process and it’s not yet a science.

By Lynne White

Congratulations to Oracle HCM customers Vi, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service and Cricket Communications, for being named in Chief Learning Officer magazine’s 2014 Learning Elite. Learning Elite is widely recognized as the industry’s most meaningful and comprehensive standard for effective Learning & Development practices. 

By Mike Vilimek

If you follow HR technology even a little, you have heard something about big data. In terms of popularity, it’s right up there with other key trends like social, mobile, and the cloud. And while definitions for many of these are not set in stone, big data is by far the most undefined and misunderstood trend of the bunch. 

By Mike Vilimek

More and more, organizations are turning to the cloud for their next modern HR solution. But while the benefits of modern cloud applications are often clearly understood, many still want to see and hear how others did it before trying it themselves. Luckily, you can now hear firsthand how Newfield, an oil and gas exploration company, has optimized its Talent Management Lifecycle with Oracle HCM Cloud. 

By John Hansen

During a recent event series run throughout the Asia-Pacific region, Oracle was pleased to feature presentations from Dr David Rock, who is the Co-founder and Director of the NeuroLeadership Institute.  This event series built upon his highly acclaimed keynote at this year’s Oracle HCMWorld event in Las Vegas, in which he discussed how the latest social neuroscience research is changing our understanding of workforce behavior and leadership.

By Affif Siddique

Is your HR ready to handle this kind of workforce? What we have seen in the SciFi movies is no longer a work of fiction, it has become a reality. With the rise of machines and proliferation of connected machines, the question is no longer if, but when, we see the Robots working side by side in our daily lives.

By Nandita Vijay Sinha - Originally posted on Oracle for Midsize

Growing midsize companies need fast time to value from enterprise application projects but they usually don't set out to break any speed records. In 2013, The Kamal Osman Jamjoom Group (The KOJ Group) deployed Infosys’s Oracle Fusion HCM RapidStart Solution for Oracle Accelerate in 32 days start to finish.

By John Hansen - Originally posted on Brokernews

A business is a collection of people working for the same cause, and a leader is required to define that cause. Growth of a business will only come through the time and talents of others. To identify, attract, fill and retain corporate leadership talent, companies need leadership development programs focused on hiring strategies, employee development, and career and succession planning.

By Jim Lein - Originally posted on Oracle for Midsize Companies

Oracle President Mark Hurd's latest post on LinkedIn, "The CEO’s Perfect Storm: Demographics, Data, and Devices Change Everything" identifies the impending Demographics Revolution (along with the Data and Devices Revolutions) as a game changer for CEOs. I'm not surprised. The challenge of hiring and retaining the right talent comes up in EVERY conversation I have with customers and partners.

Oracle OpenWorld is Oracle’s flagship customer conference, and HCM @ Oracle OpenWorld is our conference within a conference designed for Oracle’s HCM customers. This is where we highlight all of our products, our product roadmaps, the technical side of our software, integration among the entire Oracle suite of products, as well as celebrate and learn from our customers’ stories and successes.

By Alka Asthana

In the initial days of GRC, while we all realized “Compliance” was important, the list of benefits it resulted in, seemed rather intangible; it wasn’t the eye-catching, mind-blowing entries we had come to expect from everything. Being compliant gave your organization flexibility, agility, reduction in fines … and so on and so forth. However, the results of non-compliance loomed larger - other than the financial burden it imposed, non-compliance could affect the very reputation of your company.

By Richard Doherty

As employees, we’re all on a journey with our employer. Our experiences on this journey will strongly influence our attitudes; our attitudes in turn form our behaviours which ultimately drive outcomes. A poor Employee Experience (EX) naturally results in a poor outcome. 

By Stacey Harris & Lexy Martin

As globalization continues to rise, organizations looking to increase market share across boarders find themselves not only competing for business, but for talent and sustainable labor costs as well. Human Resources (HR) is at the center of this global revolution—involved in both acquiring and deploying talent necessary to achieve global expansion goals.

By Mike Vilimek

Most of you have probably heard of it. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a parlor game invented in 1994 where players challenge each other to find the shortest path of connections between a given actor and Kevin Bacon, where two actors are connected if they have appeared in a movie or commercial together. The game was based on the Six Degrees of Separation concept.

By Affif Siddique

There must not be any doubt on any CEO’s mind that their most important asset in the company is their employees. According to recent surveys, what keeps them up at night is retaining the A-players they already have in their organization. The best way to keep them engaged and motivated is to invest in their training and development.