Archive for October, 2009

Halloween HR Horror Stories – The Results are in!

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Over 200 HR professionals from a variety of forums participated in the HR Horror Story Contest from Halogen Software earlier this month. This year, HR pros shared their insights into some of the spookiest HR issues around, and many shared their own personal HR Horror Story. Some were funny, while ...
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Moving the Yardstick: the Rise of Standardized Reporting in HR

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

I saw this post on the Fast Company blogs that at first seemed unrelated to what we talk about here. It was all about the increasing emphasis on companies to measure environmental outputs like carbon, etc: A few weeks ago, USEPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced that 10,000 facilities would soon have ...
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Realizing the ROI of Your Talent Investment: Do You Meet or Exceed Expectations?

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

One of the things we often hear from customers and prospects is that they struggle to define the "ROI" or return on investment of an automated talent management system in order to justify its purchase. Let's face it, most of us don't have deep training in finance, and are sometimes ...
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Halogen’s New Certain to Succeed Money Back Guarantee

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

This morning we announced a new money back guarantee, which is the first of its kind in the talent management industry.  Our Certain to Succeed Money Back Guarantee is setting a benchmark for the industry to follow.  Offering this guarantee was really the next step for us, in our drive ...
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Do You Have the Winning HR Horror Story this Halloween?

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Let's face it, as an HR pro, you probably have countless horror stories to tell. This is your time to vent and scare the pants off the rest of us! Each year, we conduct an "HR's biggest nightmares" survey and receive hundreds of scary (and funny) answers from HR pros around ...
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