recruiting Category
Why Microsoft Bought LinkedIn.
Posted on July 19, 2016 9 Comments
While I’m generally pretty good at reading the M&A market in the HR Technology space, I admit that the announcement that venerable tech titan Microsoft was acquiring LinkedIn took me, like many in the industry, by complete surprise. It is not an obvious fit, by any means, other than the fact that both are basically […]
Observations on Job Aggregation.
Posted on June 7, 2016 2 Comments
By now, I’m sure you saw the “big news” that Simply Hired was shutting down effective June 26. If you’re like 99.99% of the American population, your initial reaction was, “what the hell is a Simply Hired?” The fact of the matter is, the bigger surprise for me was that this week’s announcement was perceived as news […]
Must Be The Money.
Posted on May 31, 2016 2 Comments
When I was recruiting, the biggest lie I ever told candidates was that salary is dependent upon experience. If you ever see anything to the ‘DOE’ throwaway in a job ad, or if you ever hear a hiring manager or recruiter answer your comp question with either a lateral to HR (“we do a personalized […]
Why “Employee Engagement” Is The Successories Poster of HR.
Posted on May 12, 2016 4 Comments
Employee engagement is one of those perpetual trending topics in HR and recruiting, probably because for years now, pundits and practitioners alike still haven’t figured out how to confront what seems to be a fairly endemic case of malaise and apathy perpetually plaguing our workforce. I’m not sure why it is that talent leaders and recruiting […]
We Want Eazy: Recruiting Doesn’t Have to Be Hard.
Posted on May 3, 2016 3 Comments
Recruiting is never easy, but for some reason, many talent acquisition professionals make it somehow much harder than it really needs to be. The fact that recruiters inherently work in silos and are largely forced to figure out the intricacies of talent sourcing and screening independently means that we tend to all make the same […]
Snark Attack 