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Unplugged: Insights from a Decade of RecFest

There aren’t a ton of events that put the needs of practitioners over the needs of the sponsors first, or who focus more on building a meaningful community that’s more than a mailing list,

Fortunately, though, there’s RecFest, one of the highlights of the overcrowded conference calendar year.

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LinkedIn Hiring Assistant: Clippy Makes A Comeback

LinkedIn’s Hiring Assistant, which just expanded its availability globally after a year in pilot, is being framed as a milestone in recruiting automation. In practice, it’s more like Clippy got a makeover, learned how to parse job descriptions, and started sending templated InMails.

It’s just as obnoxious as it sounds.

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Why Your Recruitment Advertising Sucks.

If you’re in recruiting you’ve probably been told that your job ads need to be “programmatic,” that “employer branding” is your silver bullet, and that dumping more budget into LinkedIn or Indeed will solve your pipeline problems.

Here’s the thing: it won’t. That’s because recruitment advertising is still so two-thousand-and-late.

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