Successful Talent Strategies: Achieving Superior Business Results Through Market-Focused Staffing

by David Sears

Like product and service markets, employment markets go up and down, but they never stand still. For any staffing strategy to be effective, it must be responsive to changes both within and outside the organization. Consequently, such initiatives must be designed with the same forethought, care, and commitment that go into other business strategies. Successful Talent Strategies provides a blueprint for talent planning in an economy where skillfully deployed human capital is the difference between unbridled success and struggling to stay afloat. Step by step, the book illustrates the process of creating a business-aligned talent system, with detailed strategies * Aligning initiatives with department processes, corporate objectives, and market realities * Identifying necessary competencies and attributes * Establishing talent flow and talent engagement processes, including sourcing and retention methods, performance management, and reward systems * Measuring and improving talent strategy results, and more Featuring many examples from companies of all types and sizes, Successful Talent Strategies can help any business find and keep top talent in any conditions.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

David Sears is a New Jersey-based author, speaker and business consultant.

David's early career included service as a United States Navy officer with extensive sea duty aboard destroyer Gearing (DD-710) and a tour of duty as an advisor to the Vietnamese Navy during the Vietnam conflict. David's Navy service and sea-going experience brings unique authenticity, perspective and passion to his books and his presentations to veteran, school, civic and business groups.

David has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS in Industrial Relations from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He lives in northern New Jersey.