What is Sapling? Sapling provides a cloud-based HR software to be the system of record for all employee data. Based out of San Francisco, Sapling focuses on providing a product that supports the needs of fast-growing midsized companies. Those are … Read More
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3 HR Metrics To Support Your Turnover Data
Turnover rate is the most common HR metric. It’s usually the first metric asked for by leaders and used for many organizational KPIs. Turnover is an important metric because it tells you how many people are leaving the company over … Read More
HR System Integration Spotlight: Namely
What is Namely? Namely was started in NYC, providing a SaaS (software as a service) HR management system (HRMS). Namely focuses on mid-size companies, which are companies with about 100 to 1,000 employees. They want to create the best HR … Read More
The Importance Of Off-Boarding and 3 HR Metrics To Support
There’s nothing more important for an HR team than the employee lifecycle. It covers all aspects of the employee’s experience while working with the company. Starting with attraction and recruitment, the lifecycle continues into onboarding, development, retention. The life-cycle concludes … Read More
HR System Integration Spotlight: BambooHR
What is BambooHR? BambooHR is a US-based HR tech company that provides a SaaS human resources information system (HRIS). SaaS stands for “software as a service”, which is software typically licensed out and manged in the cloud (aka online). … Read More
How to Assess Your Training Program With HR Metrics
HR metrics can be the answer to all your problems. Okay, maybe not all your problems. But the right metrics can help you get a better understanding of how your HR functions are performings. They’ll give insight on whether … Read More
More Than Mentoring: Finding Coaches, Advocates, And Sponsors
There’s no doubt that mentoring has its benefits. When it’s done right, both the mentor and the mentee walk away with something. For the mentee that could mean guidance on career pathing. For the mentor, it could be a new … Read More
Understanding The Total Labor Cost Of An Employee With HR Metrics
Labor costs are the most expensive line item for any business. It can account for 70% of overall operating costs, with 30% of labor cost going to benefits. But do you know how much your employees costs and how that … Read More
The Difference Between Talent Pools and Talent Pipelines
Did you know there’s a difference between building a talent pool and building a talent pipeline? The terms tend to be used interchangeably but really do have different meanings. Both talent pools and pipelines are important and have far-reaching benefits … Read More
Being Ghosted In The Professional World By Companies and Candidates
So you’ve been talking to this candidate for a couple of weeks now. It started as a passive search as you were scrolling through LinkedIn to build a talent pool. You slid into their DMs (direct message) and had a … Read More