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Comment on The SuccessFactors Acquisition

Mark Ingram — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:52:43 GMT

Good to hear from you Rene. Let's see how long until we get a single platform, if ever. Integration is a fine start for me. Separate platforms is a technology debt for SAP, not the client.

Comment on The SuccessFactors Acquisition

Rene — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:44:49 GMT

I finally get exited again thinking of SAP's HR strategy and future, I was waiting and hoping for a bold move like this. In 2y from now we will have an integrated HR product suite and sooner a good sales pack to offer our customer, the future looks bright! I LIKE IT!

Comment on Why I Joined Ingram Talent

Karen Bayne — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:42:17 GMT

Kim,

This is such a great fit for you. Mark has always been so helpful for us, as have you internally. I cannot wait to see what the two of you can do together as a team! Go get em!

Karen

Comment on Why I Joined Ingram Talent

Dawn Crew — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:57:17 GMT

Kim,

So happy for you and this very tough decision to move to "the other side". Great blog post and looking forward to the exciting things you will be doing at Ingram Talent!

Comment on Why I Joined Ingram Talent

sunil — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:20:43 GMT

Kim, Great to hear that you joined Mark, with EHP5 for EREC, I am sure there will be lot of information shared on this site.

Thanks for the continued assistance from Mark on EREC issues in the past.

Sunil

Comment on On Premise Schizophrenia Part 3: Musings on the future of our industry

Steve Bogner — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:30:54 GMT

Mark -

I agree with your take on this. The general movement is towards SaaS, some companies & clients will lead and some will lag depending on their particular needs & preferences, and it will shift the demand in consulting skills. We will be working in a hybrid environment for a long time. Just as clients took some time to move from mainframes to client/server (and we bridged the two for a long time), the transition to SaaS will take a while (and we will bridge that for a while, too).

Integration and business process quality are going to become more important as we also bring mobile computing into the mix. Mobile computing will increase what I call the velocity of data, exposing integration and process quality issues like never before.

It's going to be an interesting 2 to 10 years ;)

Comment on SAP E-Recruiting State of The Union

Stefan Van der Wilt — Wed, 26 May 2010 11:20:57 GMT

Hey Mark,

The e-recruiting projects I have done in Belgium include both private sector clients as well as public sector clients.

Standardised testing is quite common and can be found in both of these sectors and this on all function levels.

Consultancy organisations for example use these for graduate recruiting. At my latest client, a global player in the travel industry, the standardised testing is used for all function levels. In some cases the results are eliminating for selection, in other cases, results are just seen as a guideline to advise further selection decisions.

Here, an addition of this functionality would definately be seen as a value added versus competitor tools.

Looking forward to your next blog.

Kr,

Stefan

Comment on SAP E-Recruiting State of The Union

Mark Ingram — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:37:13 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Good to hear from you. Good suggestion. I see that as a requirement in public sector, but onsite proctored tests don't seem to be in much demand in the USA. I'm afraid my experiences have mostly been in the US so good that you can add your perspective. Have you seen in this in specific industries or jobs that you can share?

The assessments portal with also acceptance of test times online would be a cool addition where there are jobs which use skills and experience assessments. Keep up the suggestions.

Cheers, Mark

Comment on SAP E-Recruiting State of The Union

Stefan van der wilt — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:25:25 GMT

Hey Mark,

interesting blog. To Add to your list of possible future developments:

I find questionnaires an amazing tool in designing an erecruiting solution. One limitation, in a candidate context , is that they can only be mailed to candidates. SAP should think about setting up a way to send a candidate questionnaire to a company portal dedicated to testing. A candidate is then invited to the company to take the test ( fill out the questionnare) in a controlled environment. Results can immediately feed into ranking and further application processing.

Let me know what you think

stefan

Comment on SAP HR2010 Conference in Orlando

Steve Bogner — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:50:58 GMT

Mark - It was a good conference; I agree it would be nice to have more comfortable networking and 'hang out' space... But I can't imagine the SAP attendees hanging out in beanbag chairs!