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Tweet embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt With its constant improvements and advances, HR technology is the most exciting thing happening to the profession today, says senior staffing manager Julie Loubaton. “Things are just changing so rapidly, it’s really cool to me,” she told Monster at the Society for Human Resource Management’s 2012 conference in Atlanta. [...]

Tweet Lance Haun, editor-in-chief of SourceCon, said that one of the most important HR technology trends is how passively useful it’s becoming. It’s about “making that technology work the way it’s supposed to without it getting in the way,” he said. Companies are creating online HR portals that do their work nearly invisibly to the [...]

Tweet SmartBrief on Workforce is a daily e-newsletter for HR professionals, curating essential articles on finding the best talent, motivating top performers and increasing team productivity. Here are the top HR news stories as selected by SmartBrief on Workforce readers last week. Why don’t companies hire more military veterans? (Fistful of Talent) Dunkin’ looks for the [...]

Tweet Some of the most innovative companies in the world will showcase their latest technologies to thousands of attendees at the 15th annual HR Technology Conference in Chicago next week. According to HR Tech co-chair Bill Kutik, of the 260 companies unveiling new products this year, a few will stand out as truly transforming the [...]

One of primary reasons Americans forfeited two vacation days on average was their heavy workloads. Although companies reported that employees were 22% more profitable in 2011 than 2010, many employers are also realizing that less-stressed, rested and happy employees result in higher productivity and retention rates.

While most of us aren’t suffering from triskaidekaphobia, there’s something about Friday the 13 that arouses just a little bit of fear, and we’re not talking about Jason Voorhees’ hockey mask. It’s just that superstitions are deep rooted in our collective consciousness, and while we know it’s silly, most of us probably avoid walking under ladders or cracking mirrors, since, as superstitions go, it’s probably better to be on the safe side. We know better, and yet, like saying “Bless You,” sometimes old habits are hard to break. No where is this more true than the world of work, where so many of us do what we do, again and again, simply because it’s what we’ve always done.

Large employers with complex and rapidly evolving labor needs require an integrated talent management system that will support long-term success. Unfortunately, such a solution has been easy to imagine but nearly impossible to realize. To that end, HR executives look to data mining and data analytics to boost the power of their workforce planning, allowing them to anticipate specific needs for learning and development programs that can fill potential talent shortages.

Social media and technology have emerged as some of the most exciting HR topics not only of this year, but pretty much this entire decade. Breaking down these trends, however, means realizing that no matter what tool, these trends all revolve around talent – the talent we have, the talent we want and, perhaps most importantly, the marketing we need to attract top talent.

Welcome to the future of Recruiting and HR Technology. So it is with recruiting and many HR tools, which for years treated a recruiter’s connections as a set of flat files and resumes, trapped in some kind of relational database with few connections to the outside world.