Welcome to our Summer Infolink Edition! Over the last 10 years, the Insala Research Team has consistently produced company, industry, and job leads research for the benefit of our customers. We are now extending our focus to field research regarding Careers and Work, with a goal of providing you with a greater understanding of the demands of today’s talent management and outplacement industries. We are conducting a brief survey on your views on Outplacement and would greatly appreciate if you would take part.

In other news, our recently improved and enhanced career transition solution, EmploymentTalk™ is beyond the beta testing stage and has taken off by storm. Its success is perfectly in sync with the success of firms offering Outplacement services in today’s expanding Outplacement market. In addition, the LinkedIn Insala Community is up and running – so make sure to join and take advantage of this great networking opportunity.

We hope you find this issue of InfoLink interesting and informative.

Have a great day!

The Insala Research Team

How Can We Measure Mentoring? What are the measures of an effective Mentoring Initiative? Is there a simple rule or formula for a successful scheme? The key is to determine a clear set of business objectives, and to model the Mentoring Initiative against these objectives.

The Importance of Qualifying and Properly Matching Mentors and Mentees A good Mentoring Initiative is successful in both its systemizing and empathizing components. Once a company creates an initiative with the capacity to achieve its systemic goals, it needs to optimize its empathizing component – that is, it needs to pair Mentors and Mentees so that they achieve the best possible relationships for mutual development.