Oracle and cloud-based talent management company Taleo announced today that Oracle is buying Taleo for about $1.9 billion. Oracle says that with Taelo, it intends to create a comprehensive cloud offering for organizations to manage their HR operations and employee …

Co-authored by Jay Baer and Amber Naslund

“Once upon a time, customer contact was centralized around the switchboard, and the phone was the preferred method for communication between companies and customers. When it rang, you answered, because it was likely a customer or a potential customer on the other end of the line. Now, the calls are coming through online, via the social phone.”

Today Yahoo! released what it refers to as the first performance-based online recruitment product, Yahoo! HotJobs Pay Per Candidate. The new HotJobs feature lets recruiters pay for candidates instead of just per listing.

The idea is that this will help recruiters tie their dollars directly to their results. The recruitment community will get its first look at the product at the upcoming Society for Human Resource Management conference starting June 28 in New Orleans.

LinkedIn has introduced a new set of tools for HR professionals called LinkedIn Talent Advantage. The release reflects LinkedIn’s mentality that the best job candidates aren’t always actively seeking new jobs, although job posting responses on LinkedIn have doubled over the last six months.

If you use Google to search, then you have probably seen their universal search, which shows more than just html documents in the search results.

Major companies are now seeing the benefits of using universal search to search their internal resources. Professional services firms, especially law firms, are using universal search tools to instantly locate content, wherever it’s located.

Is tackling talent management one of your goals this year? Employees are becoming more demanding, and topping their list is professional growth and development.

Human Resources Directors are often charged with hiring employees, ensuring that the employee is properly trained, and delivering the bad news when the employee is not working out.

In the time that I have worked as an HR Consultant, I have stumbled upon a large amount of employers who do not know how to properly fill out their I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification) documents.

There was one movie where a teacher gave all of her students an initial grade of A. When asked why she did that, she said that it is harder to maintain this high grade rather than starting from scratch and earning it.

The role of the Human Resources Department has changed dramatically over the past 30 years and will become increasingly more strategic in nature in the future, said a leading light of the HR community in the recent 2006 Annual Conference and Exposition of HR practitioners in Washington, DC.

A human resource handbook serves as a manual guide of all the rules, processes and policies applicable to your employee at the workplace. If your staff needs to know leave and time policies, it should be found in the HR handbook.

Human resource management has changed in name various times throughout history.

Human Resources is a career that involves inviting the most competent personnel and pairing them with the employment for which they are best suited.

Human Resources Management Schools, colleges, and universities provide programs of study in diverse areas of human resources management.

As more and more Americans are becoming victims of identity theft, many employers are increasing their level of security to protect their employees.

The field of Human Behavior Organization emphasizes the importance of human resources in any business organization.

During the last number of years, a variety of Background checking systems have offered automated self-service systems where all the Human Resource personnel has to do is type in the search order and wait the appointed amount of time for the search to be returned to their email address.

Every organization, whether it has one employee or 500 employees, should have an annual Human Resources Audit.

What makes your organization tick? What will make it standout in the sea of similar organizations and stand the test of time, over the years?

The human resources (HR) press and professional associations continue to produce volumes of information about HR becoming a strategic partner.

In today’s business world proper training in human resources is imperative.