With the realisation that many of my weekly picks are video, I decided to kill off "Three To Read" and rename the series "Three To See".  It seems to make more sense and, given the comments in one of this week's posts, I think it is a timely change.  This week we have research on retention, thoughts on who is responsible for quality of hire and flash forward five years to the future of the web.

My first pick is an article by Elizabeth Craig, John R Kimberly and Peter Cheese which appeared on the Wall Street Journal website: How to Keep Your Best Executives.  It has an interesting, if somewhat counter intuitive subtitle - The key: Make it easier for them to leave.

In the piece the authors draw on findings from their research that "executives intend to stay longest with those companies that offer the greatest opportunities to enhance their employability."

The table below however, shows the "discrepancies between what executives want in the way of professional development and what their companies are giving them."

My next pick is Lou Adler's recent post to ERE.net -  Who's Responsible for the Quality of Hire?

It is a thought provoking contribution in which Adler gives five reasons for HR taking responsibility (below) and three recommendations for how to pull it off.

1. Maximizing quality of hire is the most important strategic role HR/recruiting can play.
2. The CFO is responsible the capital acquisition process, so why shouldn't HR/recruiting be responsible for the talent acquisition process?
3. Having responsibility means the process is adhered to, not the decision itself
4. There is huge tactical and strategic cost to making mistakes
5. If not HR/recruiting, then who?

My final pick this week came to me via my colleague, Dennis Philipse, an International Project Manager with StepStone who spotted Marshall Kirkpatrick's post Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years on ReadWriteWeb.

The post contains a 6 minute TubeChop clip taken from the full 45 minute interview (below) which is available through the Gartnervideo YouTube channel.

I hope you enjoy these Three To See.

Tags: acquire, engagement, Google, hire, internet, loyalty, performance, productivity, recruit, retain, retention, talent, web, WSJ

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