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HiQ Lawsuit: When LinkedIn Loses, Everybody Wins.
Posted on August 16, 2017 2 Comments
Throughout its history, LinkedIn has slowly, albeit deliberately, evolved from what used to be a fairly innocuous social network into one of the internet’s most extensive sources of personal data. Some of this, of course, is inevitable, given LinkedIn’s longevity on the market – it’s been collecting personally identifiable data (er, “professional information”) for well […]
The G Spot: Google Gets Into the HR Tech Game, Because Why Not?
Posted on July 24, 2017 4 Comments
For a function long consigned to being something of a technological backwater, the very thought that the most ubiquitous, transformative and, arguably, the most innovative company in the history of technology has thrown its hat in the recruiting ring is, well, unbelievable. So, if today’s official launch of Google Hire, the Mountain View based behemoth’s […]
Something You Forgot: Sentiment Analysis for HR and Recruiting
Posted on July 17, 2017 5 Comments
Despite our near obsessive fixation on “employee engagement,” this term remains largely amorphous and highly ambiguous, a subjective subject at best. Inherently, HR knows that an engaged workforce is more satisfied in their jobs, more productive at work, and generally stick around for longer tenures and lower pay. These are all outcomes, we can agree, […]
The Neverending Story: The 2017 State of the Recruiting Internet.
Posted on June 12, 2017 11 Comments
The three biggest internet trends recruiting and hiring pros need to know in 2017 (and beyond).
Word Count.
Posted on April 18, 2017 3 Comments
I haven’t written on this site for quite some time; normally, I go through the motions of cross posting content from Recruiting Daily, which gets all my original content since, well, they pay my salary, but recently that platform has become ubiquitous enough where it seems a bit redundant these days. The truth of the […]
Snark Attack 