recruiting Category
Virtual Insanity: Rethinking The Traditional Workplace.
Posted on June 5, 2018 11 Comments
One of my senior leaders once told me a funny story about the time his kid was asked about what Dad did for work. “He talks on the phone in the basement all day,” the kid replied. This pretty much sums up a lot of people’s perceptions about virtual work. The optics of stuff like […]
Glassdoor: An M&A Which Will Live in Infamy.
Posted on May 10, 2018 8 Comments
There are a lot of companies out there that actually walk the walk. Glassdoor, for a long time, was one of the good guys; they practiced the same sort of radical transparency they preached and were the rare company to actually champion the employee over the employer. Of course, when you’re a startup, it’s pretty easy to […]
Feeling Lucky: Google Gets Into Sourcing.
Posted on March 28, 2018 2 Comments
One of the foundational premises of talent sourcing lies in the fact that traditional search engines are notoriously bad at searching for individual people and profiles, particularly as they relate to jobs. If you’re looking for something, search engines are great. If you’re looking for someone, obviously, there are a few inherent limitations to even the most […]
Um Yea: Not Another 2018 HR Tech Trends Post.
Posted on January 16, 2018 12 Comments
Here’s a good way to kick off a new year: for the first time in like, a decade, I’m actually not dreading writing one of those annual preview posts. See, if you’re in the recruitment content marketing business (a pretty shit nice, TBH), every year, you’ve got to put out a mandatory forecast into the […]
Git Up, Git Out: Why Prisons Are Killing Diversity in the Workplace.
Posted on December 12, 2017 6 Comments
If employers truly cared about diversity, then a felony conviction would be a non-issue for recruiting, if not an asset.
The Road to Hella: Why Silicon Valley Doesn’t Really Matter Anymore.
Posted on October 19, 2017 5 Comments
It’s no secret that I’ve long hated the San Francisco area. These reasons, of course, extend beyond the more obvious, superficial stuff. While I have a sincere and deep-seated animosity for Giants and Golden State Warrior fans, streets that perpetually reek of urine and the gratuitous usage of the word hella, the real reason I […]
HiQ Lawsuit: When LinkedIn Loses, Everybody Wins.
Posted on August 16, 2017 2 Comments
Throughout its history, LinkedIn has slowly, albeit deliberately, evolved from what used to be a fairly innocuous social network into one of the internet’s most extensive sources of personal data. Some of this, of course, is inevitable, given LinkedIn’s longevity on the market – it’s been collecting personally identifiable data (er, “professional information”) for well […]
The G Spot: Google Gets Into the HR Tech Game, Because Why Not?
Posted on July 24, 2017 4 Comments
For a function long consigned to being something of a technological backwater, the very thought that the most ubiquitous, transformative and, arguably, the most innovative company in the history of technology has thrown its hat in the recruiting ring is, well, unbelievable. So, if today’s official launch of Google Hire, the Mountain View based behemoth’s […]
The Neverending Story: The 2017 State of the Recruiting Internet.
Posted on June 12, 2017 11 Comments
The three biggest internet trends recruiting and hiring pros need to know in 2017 (and beyond).
Predictions That Probably Won’t Happen: 2017 Talent Trends.
Posted on December 29, 2016 12 Comments
The thing about talent trends posts is that if it were possible to predict the future of recruiting and HR, we’d probably have figured out some way to make it suck a little less. Of course, the glacial pace of change in these parts means that for the indeterminate present, 2017 Is shaping up to […]
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