Pity The Tool: The Limitations of HR Technology
Posted on October 30, 2014 4 Comments
If you think about the myriad steps required in full cycle recruiting, the fact that we’re so focused on that very small slice of stuff that happens before a candidate even actually applies underscores how much of the talent acquisition conversation seems misplaced.
In fact, until a candidate is actually captured in an ATS (or proprietary database), it’s not recruiting – it’s marketing. And whatever trending topic we’re talking about in talent today generally falls outside of the core recruiting process, not to mention core competencies. That’s because for some reason, looking at what’s next has overtaken looking at what really works in recruiting.
Penny Dreadful: How To Stop Sucking At Storytelling
Posted on October 28, 2014 1 Comment
They tell me that a lot of people have been asking about my session at the Social. Sourcing. Talent. (#SST2014) conferences, “Using Your Blog To Tell Your Story.” So, they asked me to write a post on it. No pressure. But it’s kind of hard to write a promotional post for a topic with that title without sounding like a totally pretentious douche canoe.
This has rarely stopped me before, but writing about writing is self-indulgent – which, mixed with the intrinsic self-promotion of previewing a presentation I’m going to give likely won’t incentivize any registrants, which I suppose is the purported purpose of this post.
Candidate Experience: Rage Against the Machines
Posted on October 21, 2014 3 Comments
We talk a lot about the marketing and recruiting overlap in our industry, a discussion that’s largely theoretical – like almost every trending topic in an industry desperately searching for professional validation.
If you’re one of those talent practitioners still denying the fact that recruiting and marketing have become more or less indistinguishable need to face the facts:
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.
Snark Attack 