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Career Coaches and Resume Writers Can’t Find A Real Job, Either.
Posted on January 16, 2015 5 Comments
As the old saying goes, those who can’t do, teach; this, as we all know, is complete BS, because those who can’t do, in fact, become consultants. But in recruiting and HR, those who can’t become consultants (which is easier to get into than the University of Phoenix) do something far more insidious: they become […]
How Many Licks Does It Take To Get To The Center of Social?
Posted on December 16, 2014 3 Comments
Hootsuite, a high growth, high tech employer based in Vancouver has emerged as one of the most widely used social business platforms on the market. Its enterprise social monitoring and publishing tools have fueled the company’s explosive growth from bootstrap to big brand, from start-up to social success story. In under four years, Hootsuite has […]
Smart Phones, Dumb Recruiters.
Posted on December 8, 2014 4 Comments
While candidate experience is largely seen in the strategic and process purview, and mobile tends to be seen largely through the lens of recruiting technology, the fact remains that making a meaningful change to candidate experience means first making a meaningful change to their mobile experience. As outlined in previous posts, customers are consumers, and […]
Frienemies With Benefits: How HR Ruins Recruiting
Posted on December 4, 2014 5 Comments
One of the hottest of hot button issues in human capital these days seems to be the categorization of the recruiting function and whether or not it belongs in HR in the first place. It may seem superficially pithy, but it’s a dialogue with drastic ramifications for the future of both recruiting and candidate engagement. […]
Big Data, Small Minds: The Real Math Problem in Recruiting
Posted on November 24, 2014 4 Comments
Every time I hear someone talk about anything involving stupid, specious concepts in recruiting, which is to say pretty much the entire response to that “join the conversation” cliché in our little industry, I get a little nauseous. I’m no etymologist, but I’m pretty sure if you can’t define a buzzword without using another buzzword, […]
Snark Attack 