Theme: this article share guidance on how talent management software can be used to improve an organisation’s visibility of their most promising employees and how they use it as a foundation to build relationships with them.

Theme: this article discusses recent research on work-life balance and its power as a tool to both attract and retent employees.  It also includes commentary from TalentMax, as a career management consultancy highlighting the practicalities of implementing home working policies.

Theme: this article provides 5 top tips from high ranking financial services employees, TalentMax as a career management consultancy and headhunters on what a programmer or project manager needs to do to metamorphose into say a chief information officer (CIO) or managing director of equities technology.  Read article in full.

Theme:  this article reviews a recent survey conducted by Accountancy Age and Robert Half International in which one third of employees said their organisation did not have family-friendly policies.  It also mentions TalentMax research in which six out of ten HR directors in financial services firms acknowledged that they failed to develop their talent effectively.

Theme: this article considers how, given the costs involved in finding good job candidates, organisations are under pressure to create transition programmes that accelerate the rate at which new employees add value to the business. It examines best practice 'first 100 days' strategies and includes commentary from TalentMax, Kleinwort Benson Private Bank, Northern Rock, L'Oreal and the Metropolitan Police.

Theme: this article reviews the changing job market in financial services and reveals that vacancies in the City have risen 130% compared to the previous year. It cites TalentMax research that 81% of human resources departments interviewed said it had become significantly more difficult to recruit talent over the summer period.

Theme: this article reviews how career management and retention are becoming high-priority issues for organisations as job mobility returns to the markets.  It includes commentary from Scottish Power, TalentMax, Napier Scott, Deutsche Bank and Willis.

Theme:This article analyses the recruitment upswing, which it characterises as a steady uplift rather than boom and forecasts that bonuses will rise in tandem as a retention measure.  Commentary is provided from TalentMax, KPMG, the Centre for Economic & Business Research and the Association of Graduate Recruiters.

Theme:this article reviews the TalentMax report 'Maximising the Return on Talent: Winning the Financial Services Talent Wars', focusing on the findings that 61% of HR directors describe their firms as failing to develop talent although 88% recognise that talent is an important contributory factor to business performance.

Theme: this article launched the TalentMax report 'Maximising the Return on Talent: Winning the Financial Services Talent Wars'.  The article covers the key themes raised by the report and investigates how key players including Barclays, HSBC and UBS are hiring and retaining talent.

Theme: this article investigates how executive search firms are endeavouring to broaden their services beyond poaching talent to offering other human capital consulting services and discusses the potential ethical conflicts this can pose. It contains commentary by TalentMax, Heidrick & Struggles, Egon Zehnder and Odgers Ray & Berndtson.

Theme:this article reviews the impact that the Kingsmill report 'Accounting for People' has had on industry, the government and the financial markets. It considers whether practical human capital metrics can be developed for both internal usage and external publication. It contains commentary from TalentMax, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the Judge Institute of Management.

Theme: this article discusses the challenge of finding and keeping talent in competitive markets which fall prey to the 'merry-go-round' syndrome whereby hot talent knows its market value and is increasingly mobile. It demonstrates how the key themes raised in the TalentMax report 'Winning the Talent Revolution' apply to the insurance industry.

Theme: this article analyses talent management from the employee perspective. It describes the rising popularity in talent management programmes at leading organisations and provides employees with practical tips on 'how to be talent spotted' and how to manage your career to receive a coveted invitation to join your organisation's talent management programme. It contains commentary from TalentMax and other consultancies.

Theme: this article discusses how talent management is becoming more prevalent in financial services, especially in investment banking, where it is being used as a powerful tool to create and fill a leadership pipeline. The article includes commentary from TalentMax and case studies on how talent management is being applied in Lehman Brothers, ABN AMRO and Deutsche Bank.

Theme: this article discusses how retaining top talent in the asset management industry is critical to business success. It considers how larger organisations can stem the flow of talented fund managers to boutiques by embracing new management and leadership styles. Adopting core tenets of talent management such as removing bureaucracy, shielding fund managers from politics, offering clear career development routes and maximising team freedom are effective weapons. The article includes commentary from TalentMax, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Thames River Capital, JO Hambro Capital Management, SWIP and Gartmore.

Theme: this article reviews the TalentMax report 'The Talent Revolution' and focuses on the increasing mobility of talented professionals, the shifting balance of power between employer and employee and how both sides should adapt to the new career reality. It also covers the ideal role a CEO should play in driving talent management to unlock maximum performance from employees.

Theme: this article reviews two publications - the book 'Having Their Cake - How the City and Big Bosses are Consuming UK Businesses' and the TalentMax report 'The Talent Revolution' to argue that companies need to radically overhaul their management development and recruitment practices to remain internationally competitive. The book highlights bad management practices and leadership shortages that are damaging businesses while the report confirms that a large majority of talented individuals did not feel their employers were making the best use of their skills.

Theme: this article reviews the TalentMax report 'The Talent Revolution' and focuses on the statistic that only 31% of organisations have an active talent management strategy but that increasing numbers of businesses view talent management as a key method of building competitive advantage and that those firms which have adopted it have reaped big rewards.

Theme: this article reviews the TalentMax report 'The Talent Revolution' and focuses on the critical role HR and line managers have to play in driving and facilitating talent management. Recruiting talent is important but the real challenge is in developing, engaging and retaining talent over the long term to realise its full potential. Strategies for achieving this include equipping line managers with the knowledge to understand what makes talented people tick, providing them with the skills to motivate and inspire them and then holding line managers accountable for achieving talent management objectives.

Theme: this article reviews the TalentMax report 'The Talent Revolution' and reveals how obsolescent management styles either quash the talents of high achievers or drive them to leave. It discusses the contribution that HR can make to talent management and how the talent championing HR director of the future should not only occupy a seat on the Board but should become a member of a new triumvirate consisting of the CEO, FD and HRD - the three key people responsible for driving the business forward.

Theme: this article reviews the TalentMax report 'The Talent Revolution' and concentrates on why talent management is an important engagement and retention tool for companies to use when only 15% of talented achievers feel that their organisation currently uses their talents fully. It provides a selection of best practice techniques that organisations can adopt to ensure their talent management programme succeeds.

Theme: this article examines the implications of research by several consultancies including TalentMax, which conclude that half of all people hired do not work out. It investigates the difficulties organisations encounter in attracting only appropriate candidates, in comparing candidates, in selecting the most suitable candidates and then transitioning them successfully into their organisations.

Theme: this article reviews the TalentMax report 'The Talent Revolution' and examines how effectively designed and delivered talent management programmes can boost individual and organisational performance. It shows how innovative organisations are embracing the talent management challenge and the benefits that it is bringing them.