Ludicrous Rollout: Swag Don’t Come Cheap In HR Tech
Posted on October 14, 2014 1 Comment
I’m not generally one to call for austerity, considering I often find myself the beneficiary of vendor largesse. But at last week’s annual HR Technology Conference, I noticed that an industry more or less emerging from macroeconomic famine might be enjoying the bull market feast just a little too much – and are recklessly spending money while ignoring the new realities of recruiting and talent acquisition.
I’m a Blogger, and That’s OK.
Posted on October 13, 2014 6 Comments
When I went up to pick up my press pass at HR Technology this year, I was told, instead, that I had been issued a blogger badge. This makes sense, since, well, I run a blog, but thought that the distinction between press and blogger was interesting. This argument, of course, has been going on since newsrooms started shutting down a few years ago and more and more publications turned to online content for revenue creation. But the fact that it’s still going on fascinates me.
Social Recruiting: Behind the Buzzwords at #HRTechConf
Posted on October 6, 2014 1 Comment
I was kind of surprised when my friends over at SHRM reached out to me with a few questions about social recruiting; after all, SHRM is decidedly not a recruiting-focused organization, and that same membership that seems to actively work to block their employees social media access also is, in my experience, anti-social (at least when there’s not an open bar involved).
I was even more surprised when they printed my answers, considering I was honest. But then again, I’m not selling consulting services, so I can safely assert that social recruiting sucks.
Here’s the post that originally appeared at We Know Next (which they said I could republish, and I’m guessing we have a completely different readership):
The Real Source Con: Packing Pipelines and Smoking Hashtags
Posted on October 1, 2014 2 Comments
My very first job title ever was as a “sourcing analyst,” which had the necessary gravitas at the time to make me not feel bad compared to my B-School buddies who selected, rather than scrounged, for their gigs. This role was, essentially, how sourcing is still largely defined: name generation and verification.
My job was really pretty simple: find as many potentially qualified candidates as possible, verify that their information was correct, and then enter that record into the applicant tracking system. Of course, this was in 2005, and the explosion of publicly available personal information that’s so ubiquitous today was, at the time, still in its infancy.
The Deal With the Hat
Posted on September 26, 2014 4 Comments
I give presentations on really complex topics, as a rule, and while I try to simplify it as much as possible, I fail to believe, as happened the other day at a user conference, that no one had a single question about inbound recruiting.
Not one. Normally, this is an hour, and it still feels rushed – I actually added slides (which I stole from, but credited to, the brilliant Bryan Chaney – dude’s good). 62 slides, 45 minutes, somehow still found 5 for Q&A.
Crickets.
Snark Attack 