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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fashion Faux Pas: Funkyzeit Mit HR
Posted on September 8, 2014 2 Comments
If you’ve seen me at a conference, this is going to be hard to imagine. But when I was immersed in the world of Fortune 50 HR departments, the professional equivalent of a home ec class, I thought the best way to fit into a world where I was an obvious interloper was by simply […]
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: The Daft Punk of HR Tech
Posted on August 25, 2014 Leave a Comment
In his immaculately researched, incredibly detailed corporate biography “Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove Built the World’s Most Important Company,” author Michael Malone writes of Moore’s Law, “The equation proved so precise that it captured the entire Zeitgeist … And even after the integrated circuit itself is obsolete, it is possible […]
Snark Attack 