Finding and Keeping the Best Talent
Written: Nov 12 '08
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Pros: Many relevant articles to any manager
Cons: Wish the magazine was longer.
The Bottom Line: This is a good magazine for managers at all levels of a business.
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| Bryan_Carey's Full Review: Talent Management |
Competition for employees is very intense in many parts of the United States and employers know that potential employees will jump ship quickly if they find better deals elsewhere. Finding these individuals and retaining them in a company are among the many goals of Talent Management, a magazine geared toward finding the best fit for the employee/employer while striving for quality.
Basic Contents of This Magazine:
Talent Management is a magazine for professional managers with about 50 to 60 pages in each issue. It includes the following departments and regular features:
Insight
Application
Dashboard
Editor's Letter
Advertiser's Index
Editorial Resources
Along with the departments and features, Talent Management can be counted on for five featured articles and about four or five columns in each issue. The featured articles are organized by category: Recruitment and Retention; Assessment and Evaluation; Performance Management; Learning and Development; and Succession Planning.
Magazine Web Page/Pricing:
If you're looking to find out about Talent Management on the world wide web, the place to visit is talentmgt.com. This web site is much more than simply a magazine web site, it is a site dedicated to recruitment, employee retention, compensation and benefits, and other aspects of the employee experience. The magazine itself is actually a very minor part of this web site.
One thing that many will like is that Talent Management is offered free of charge to qualifying professionals. If you work in management and hire new employees, then there is a good chance you may qualify for a complimentary subscription.
Final Thoughts:
Finding good talent is difficult in some areas of the country and many human resource departments have been forced to go out of their way to find the right talent, get the potential employee to accept an offer, and find ways to make sure the employee is happy and doesn't leave for a better opportunity. As competition continues to heat up in certain industries and in certain fields, the demand for top talent will continue to increase and the demands of talented employees will likely follow suit.
Talent Management is a magazine dedicated to the human resource director or manager in any department who needs some talent guidance. I have worked as a manager for several years and I am fully aware of the difficulties in finding top talent and then keeping the talented individual satisfied. The process requires patience and instinct and the more times a manager engages in the hiring process, the more fine- tuned his/her instincts will become. With experience, it will become easier to find the right person for the position and, if a good match is found, it will be easier to keep the employee from changing his/her mind and leaving for another opportunity. Talent Management helps guide managers down this path, with advice on creative recruiting, utilization of the internet, bonuses and other incentives, training, etc.
Once a talented individual has been located and an offer has been accepted, it is then time to manage the employee in the best way possible and this is another component of Talent Management that I find helpful. It isn't too difficult to find the right employees for a position once you have been through the process several times. The real challenge comes later when you have to decide the most effective way to manage. If you live in a growing, thriving metropolitan area like I do, there is always the constant threat posed by other companies- businesses who would like nothing more than to lure your employee away from you. To help prevent this possibility, a business has to be fully aware of the market compensation rates for a given position and must be ready to offer signing bonuses, extra vacation, and other possible incentives to make sure an employee doesn't start to look elsewhere. Talent Management covers this and related problems in most every monthly issue.
Besides articles and features related to finding and retaining employees, Talent Management also offers articles on business issues in general, particularly those that are important from a human resources standpoint. For example, one issue might spend some time talking about the rising cost of health insurance. Another issue might delve into the debate between the pros and cons of 401K plans and Pension Plans. These articles, and others like them, are more general in nature and do not directly tie- in with the magazine's primary mission of finding and keeping top talent. But they are still very useful and the subjects they discuss can still have a long- term impact on whether or not an employee is satisfied and decides to stay with a specific business.
Recruiting top talent is a completely different task when compared to the days of old. New technology has made it easier to locate the best employees for a position and quick access to information has made it easier to make informed decisions. But these improvements in technology have also made talent recruitment more competitive and employers have to be very careful to make sure they study market trends and make the best possible offer to the most talented individuals. Recruiting costs are high, and Talent Management is one magazine that is ready to assist managers at different stages of the process. A happy employee is likely to stick around, and Talent Management is ready to assist managers so that employee satisfaction starts out high and never slips.
Recommended:
Yes
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