Big Data

Recruiting is evolving. Fast. Faster than any time in my 15+ years in corporate recruiting. There are many contributing factors: social media, the maturation of employer branding, the prevalence of… Read more

We were asked to predict the future of recruiting. We declined. It is too easy. Everything is possible when you are never held accountable. Instead, we took a brief step… Read more

Every time I hear someone talk about anything involving stupid, specious concepts in recruiting, which is to say pretty much the entire response to that “join the conversation” cliché in… Read more

Within the insular world of HR technology and recruitment software, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) are perhaps the most hated, at least judging from the online conversation among talent acquisition practitioners… Read more

I’ve been working on some posts recently about recruiters and superstitions, since there seems to be a recurring supernatural theme oddly prevalent in most recruiters’ mostly mundane routines – for… Read more

I read an article the other day that had me confused. The title implied (as this one does at first) that “location” and “aggregation” are competitors for the future of… Read more

From Taleo to Monster, from ADP to Doostang, companies who successfully create and own their own categories often shift their focus away from the model that helped them get to… Read more

This past spring in Philadelphia, I had the honor to serve as the emcee for the 2014 iTalent HR Technology Competition, thrown in conjunction with the Human Resources Outsourcing Association’s… Read more

The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, HR data analytics and workplace agility top the list of concerns for HR leaders, according to a new report released today by the… Read more

Data to help recruiters understand social recruiting risk factors.

The increasing overlap, and potentially inextricable intertwining of recruitment and marketing has been a central theme in the HR industry, the subject of a prodigal amount of product marketing, ‘thought… Read more

You might not have heard of fastest growing online US job destination, but as Eric Owski, VP of Corporate Strategy at Bright freely admits that even with 7.5 million unique visitors… Read more