iCIMS Hire Expectations™

Lately I’ve been speaking with a lot of industry experts, partners and clients regarding integrated recruitment and performance management; specifically on which data points are most beneficial to bring together to get the most value out of the combined areas of talent management.

Because of these recent conversations, I was interested to read Jayson Saba from Aberdeen’s latest research: Talent Management in Healthcare. While talent management means many different things to different people, much of this report touched upon bringing together recruitment, onboarding, succession, performance and competency management.

Aberdeen highlighted how top performing organizations execute talent management strategies to improve employee engagement. The criteria Aberdeen used to determine best in class vs industry average vs laggard organizations include:

·          Hiring the top choice candidate – as a result of engaging talent during sourcing & clearly communicating the brand of the organization

·          Time to fill: linking hiring manager satisfaction and recruitment efficiency

·          Employee performance: how well the organization links individual performance to organizational objectives

I was interested to see how much emphasis was placed on recruitment in this study. I think part of this is due to setting appropriate expectations during the recruiting process, as well as the tools an integrated talent management platform offers to bring a lot of these metrics together. Outside of the technology there are of course other ways that organizations can consistently engage candidates, new hires and employees about their expected results and how those contributions roll up to higher level organizational objectives. One of our clients has even suggested using a performance evaluation as the primary guide during the selection process; essentially providing a crystal clear look at what an employee will be measured upon as opposed to simply reading a job description and a few bullet points.

I won’t spoil the results for you, but do encourage you to take a look at the research and share your thoughts on this blog. You can access a complimentary copy of the report here.